Tax Roll
fragment of a tax register, recording day by day the collection of money taxes.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12001
Fragment of a daily register of money taxes on land TM 12001Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt173/174 A.D.
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Fragment of a daily tax register from Karanis recording payments by named villagers of money taxes on land, such as geometria, apomoira, naubion and eparourion, with surcharges and daily totals. It dates to AD 173/174.
In English machine translation
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[…] Thermouthis (?) […]
for geometria of year 12 […] with extra charges […] total […]
[…] Sokmenis […]
Total for the day: drachmas […]
[…]
[…] Ptol[…]
[…]theus […] farmer […] of the cleruchy
for payments on taxable beach land of year 13, of the estate
drachmas […]
for apomoira 2 drachmas 3 obols, naubion 1 1/2 obols, extra charges 3 1/2 obols
for eparourion 1 drachma 4 obols, extra charges 1 obol, exchange fee 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi, total 5 drachmas 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi
for geometria 3 drachmas 1/2 obol, extra charges 1 obol 2 chalkoi, total 3 drachmas 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi
for rent of the same estate […] extra charges […] total […]
Total for the day: drachmas […]
[…]
Pasion son of Sarapion, grandson of Phaesis, mother Nilous […]
Sokrates son of Hareotes […]
32 drachmas 2 obols […]
for geometria of year 12, 33 drachmas 2 obols, extra charges 2 drachmas 1/2 obol, total 35 drachmas 2 1/2 obols
[…]on son of Pnepheros, Hare[…]
drachmas […]
for orchard land of year 12: apomoira 4 drachmas 1/2 obol, oil production tax 3 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi, naubion 2 1/2 obols, extra charges 1 drachma 2 chalkoi
for eparourion 2 drachmas 4 1/2 obols, extra charges 1 1/2 obols, exchange fee 1 obol, total 9 drachmas 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi
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Part of the large Karanis tax roll (P.Mich. IV 224). Prosdiagraphomena are surcharges added to the tax, and kollybos is a fee for exchanging coin.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragments of No. 224. No. 357C). 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.mich.4.2.357A
[ctr] ροα Κάστωρ Ἀχιλλᾶ γεωργὸς […]γ κληρουχίας τελεσμάτων αἰγιαλίτιδος ἐμφόρου ιγ ἔτους Λουριανῆς οὐσίας [ms] δραχμαὶ π ὀβολ[…] [ctr] ἀπομοίρης δραχμαὶ ε ναυβίου τριώβολον προσδιαγραφομένωνδραχμὴ α ἡμιωβέλιον χαλκοῖ 2 ἐπαρουρίου δραχμαὶ γ διώβολον προσδιαγραφομένων ὀβολὸς ἡμιωβέ…
p.mich.4.2.357B
[r,ctr] […] δραγματηγίας τῆς αὐτῆς οὐσίας ῥυπαρ […] τελεσμάτων αἰγιαλίτιδος ἐμφόρου ιγ ἔτους Καμηλιανῆς ἀπομοίρης δραχμαὶ δ πεντώβολον ἡμιωβέλιον χαλκοῖ 2 ναυβίου τριώβολον προσδιαγραφομένων δραχμὴ α ὀβολὸς α 𐅵 ἐπαρουρίου δραχμαὶ γ διώβολον προσδιαγραφομένων ὀβολὸς ἡμιωβέλιον χαλ…
p.mich.4.2.357C
[ctr] [… ? lines lost …] […]θερμουθ[…] γεωμετρίας ιβ ἔτους […]προσδιαγραφομένων[…]γίνονται[…] […]Σοκμήνεως[…] γίνονται τῆς ἡμέρας δραχμ[…] […] […]ν Πτολ[…] […]θεω […]γεωργὸς[…]κληρουχίας τελεσμάτων αἰγιαλίτιδος ἐμφόρουιγ ἔτους οὐσίας [ms] δραχμαὶ[…] [ctr] ἀπομοίρης δραχμαὶ β τριώ…
p.mich.4.2.357D
[… ? lines lost …] […]… […]ιβ ἔτους δραχμαὶ κ προσδιαγραφομένων δραχμαὶ …[…]γίνονται δραχμαὶ κ[…] παραδείσου ιβ ἔτους ἀπομοίρης δραχμ[…] τετρώβολον ἐλαίας παραγωγῆς δραχμαὶ δ τριώβολον ναυβίου δραχμαὶ[…]προσδιαγραφομένων δραχμ[…] ἐπαρουρίου δραχμ[…]προσδιαγραφομένων[…] τετρώβολον…