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A provisional receipt issued at Karanis under Caracalla in early AD 216, recording that the veteran officer Lucius Iulius Serenus paid 80 silver drachmas in pasture tax on sheep for year 22. The payment was received through Gaius Aurelius Melas, secretary of the village money-tax collectors, who promises to deposit it at the public bank and deliver the official receipt.
The ennomion was a tax on grazing animals. The abbreviated title of Serenus is usually expanded as 'former decurion', a cavalry rank.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zwischenquittung über das Weidegeld für Schafe im Hebebezirk Karanis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
ἔτους κδ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Σεουήρου Ἀντωνείνου Παρθικοῦ Μεγίστου Βρεταννικοῦ Μεγίστου Γερμανικοῦ Μεγίστου Εὐσεβοῦς Σεβαστοῦ. διέγραψε Λούκιος Ἰούλιος Σερῆνος ἀπὸ δεκαδάρχῶν εἰς ἀρίθμησιν μηνὸς Τῦβι ὑπὲρ ἐννομίου προβάτων τοῦ κβ ἔτους διὰ Γαίου Αὐρηλίου Μέλανος γραμματέως πρακτόρων …
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