Receipt for Adaeratio of barley
Receipt for tax paid by Aurelius Papnouthios.
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Receipt for money paid in place of barley tax at Karanis TM 10495Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptAugust 9, 314 A.D.
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A short tax receipt recording that Aurelius Papnoutios son of Sittis paid 1,100 drachmas in money in place of barley owed for the 2nd indiction at Karanis. It is dated by the consuls of AD 314, on 9 August.
In English machine translation
In the consulship of Rufius Volusianus and Petronius Annianus, the most illustrious, Mesore 16.
Aurelius Papnoutios son of Sittis, for barley of the 2nd indiction, of Karanis, 1,100 drachmas, total 1,100 drachmas.
This is an adaeratio receipt: a tax assessed in barley was paid in its money equivalent. The patronymic 'Sittios' may instead be a second name.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt of Adaeratio of Barley). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.col.7.141a
ὑπατείας Ῥουφίου Οὐολουσιανοῦ καὶ Πετρωνίου Ἀννειανοῦ τῶν λαμπροτάτων Μεσορὴ ιϛ, Αὐρήλιος Παπνούτιος Σίττιος κριθῆς β ἰνδικτίωνος Καρανίδος δραχμὰς χιλίας ἑκατόν, γίνονται δραχμαὶ Αρ