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
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Daily register of poll-tax and other money taxes at Karanis TM 12008Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt173-174 A.D.
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Fragments of a tax roll from Karanis recording daily collections of money taxes, chiefly the poll-tax, guards' tax and magdola-tax. Each payer is listed with father, grandfather and mother, often with a cross-reference number to another register, and the entries are totalled day by day. It dates to AD 173-174.
In English machine translation
[Column 1]
[183]
[…] (son?) of Thermouthis, 36, poll-tax
[…] 36, poll-tax
[…] poll-tax, 4 drachmas
[…] poll-tax, 4 drachmas
[…] 36, poll-tax
[Total for the day, drachmas] […]
[23rd, likewise]
[…] 36, poll-tax
[…] poll-tax, 4 drachmas
[…] poll-tax, 28 obols
[…] 36, poll-tax
[…] 36, poll-tax
[…] 36, poll-tax
[…]
[…] 4
[…] 36, poll-tax
[… 2 lines lost …]
[Total for the day] […]
[24th, likewise]
[…] poll-tax, 4 drachmas, 36, poll-tax
[… 2 lines lost …]
[…]
[Column 2]
18 [4]
Mysthes son of Patkonnis, grandson of Harobros, mother Ptolema: guards' tax 1 drachma, magdola-tax [… drachmas], total [… drachmas]
Petheus son of Harsiesis, grandson of Petheus, mother Tapetheus: guards' tax 1 drachma, magdola-tax [… drachmas], total [… drachmas]
Psenesis son of Parmenion, grandson of Psenesis, mother Tkonnos: poll-tax, [… drachmas]
Anoubas son of Horos, grandson of Anoubas, mother Tepheros: poll-tax, [… drachmas]
Ammonis son of Pasoknopaios, grandson of Limnaios, mother Thatreis: poll-tax, [… drachmas]
Ptolemaios son of Papeis, grandson of Petheus, mother Thermouthis: poll-tax, [… drachmas]
Ptolemaios son of Ptolemaios the younger, grandson of Petheus, mother Tasoucharion […]
Petaus son of Petheus, grandson of Petaus, mother Tapasion: poll-tax, [… drachmas]
Total for the day [… drachmas]
25th, likewise
Horos son of Menandros, grandson of Anchophis, mother Soeris […]
Heron son of Ptolemaios, grandson of Pnepheros, mother Heras […]
Pnepheros, his brother, of the same mother […]
Ptolemaios son of Esouris, grandson of Heras, mother Thaesis […]
Total for the day [… drachmas]
26th, likewise
Petaus son of Petheus, grandson of Pnepheros, mother Taseus, 36, poll-tax, of the priests
Herieus the younger son of Horos, grandson of Pnepheros, mother Thaesis: poll-tax, [… drachmas]
Petheus son of Didymos, grandson of Maron, mother […]: poll-tax, [… drachmas]
Herakles son of Petheus […]
Kames son of Petheus, grandson of Petheus, mother Tkonnos, assistant: guards' tax [… drachmas], magdola-tax [… drachmas], total [… drachmas]
Ptolemaios son of Her[…] […]
Total for the day [… drachmas]
[27th], likewise
[… lines lost …]
The numbers such as 36 before 'poll-tax' appear to be page references to a register of taxpayers arranged by location. The magdola-tax (magdolon) was a levy connected with watchtowers and has no exact English equivalent.
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.
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
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