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 money-tax payments at Karanis TM 12009Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt173-174 A.D.
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Fragment of a daily tax register from the village of Karanis in the Fayum, listing taxpayers by name, father, grandfather and mother, with the amounts paid and daily totals. It dates to about AD 173-174.
In English machine translation
Year 1(?), [Pha]ophi(?)
Karanos son of Orsenouphis, grandson of Imouthes, mother Tapetsiris […]
Chairemon son of Pasoxis, grandson of Pasoxis, mother Tanephremis, 600, drachmas […]
Achillas son of Heron, grandson of Orsenouphis, mother Didyme, 600, drachmas […]
Apynchis son of Pnepheros, grandson of Pakysis, mother Tasoucharion, 600, drachmas […]
Ptolemaios son of Leonides, grandson of Papeis, mother Tapetheus […]
Total for the day: 32 drachmas 5 obols
3rd, likewise
Ninis son of Asklas, grandson of Ninis, mother Tabous, 600, drachmas […]
Horos son of Petaus, grandson of Petaus, mother Tauris, 600, drachmas […]
Total for the day: 4 drachmas […] obols
4th, likewise
Phaesis son of Heras, grandson of Orsenouphis, mother Isidora, 600, drachmas […]
Esouris son of Kameis, grandson of Heras, mother Thaesis, 600, drachmas […]
Total for the day: 4 drachmas 20 obols
[…] likewise
Patron son of Sokmenis, grandson of Sokmenis, mother Taonnophris, 600, drachmas […]
Ptolemaios son of Apynchis, grandson of Auneis, mother Tapetheus, 600, drachmas […]
Euhemeros son of Neilos, grandson of Euhemeros, mother Taeuhemeros, 600 […]
Total for the day: 8 drachmas 20 obols
[…] likewise
Petheus son of Didymos, grandson of Maron, mother Tauris, 600, drachmas […]
Euhemeros son of Euhemeros, grandson of Keras, mother Tauris, 600, drachmas […]
Total for the day: 4 drachmas 11 obols
[…] likewise
Phanomgeus son of Phanomgeus, grandson of Phanomgeus, mother Tapsais, 600, drachmas […]
Petheus son of Nestosiris, grandson of Petheus, mother Thermouthis, 600, drachmas […]
Mysthes son of Petheus, grandson of Mysthes, mother Tasoucharion […]
Total for the day: 4 drachmas 11 obols
The numeral 600 after each name appears to be a cross-reference to a page of another, topographically arranged register of poll-tax payers. The heading line is uncertainly read; daily totals with more than 6 obols reflect the register's own accounting.
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.4.2.358G
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