Tax Roll
Tax register, recording the daily collection of money taxes in the village of Karanis; the name of each tax-payer paying the poll-tax is cross-referenced with a page of another register, where taxpayers were listed geographically
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12003
Fragment of a tax roll recording daily money payments TM 12003Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt173-174 A.D.
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Fragment of a tax roll from Karanis recording daily payments of money taxes by individual villagers, with amounts in drachmas and obols and a daily total. It belongs with a larger register of AD 173-174.
In English machine translation
[…] 4 drachmas
[…] 12 drachmas
[…] 8 drachmas
[…] of Tanesneus 28 obols
[…] of Tapetsiris 4 drachmas
[…] 8 drachmas
[…] 8 drachmas
[…] 8 drachmas
[…] of Tapetheus 4 drachmas
[Total for the day, drachmas] […]
[…]
[…] of Sambathios 4 drachmas
[…]ys 20 drachmas, 27 obols
[…]s 28 obols
[…]os 4 drachmas
[Pnepheros son of Pasoxis son of Petesouchos, his mother being Th]akiaris 4 drachmas
[…] 4 drachmas
[…] 12 drachmas
[…] 4 drachmas
[…]
These are fragments belonging to a larger Karanis tax roll (P.Mich. IV 225). Most taxpayers' names are lost, and the payments are listed by day.
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. 225). 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.4.2.358A
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