Report of Supervisors of the Oil Tax
Monthly report of the supervisors of the oil tax to an unknown authority
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Monthly nil report of the supervisors of the oil tax at Karanis TM 12037Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptDecember 27, 176 A.D.
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A monthly report from the supervisors of the oil tax at the village of Karanis to an official whose name is lost, stating that no revenue came in during the month Hadrianos of year 17 of Marcus Aurelius. It is dated 27 December AD 176.
In English machine translation
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[supervisors] of the oil tax from the village of Karanis: we have submitted to you the monthly account of the aforesaid supervision, through which nothing has come in, and we have received the corresponding receipt, for the period from the 1st to the 30th of the month Hadrianos of the current year 17 of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord.
Year 17 of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord, Tybi 1.
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Hadrianos was an honorific month name used in Egypt for Choiak. The phrase "nothing has come in" means the oil tax produced no income that month.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of Supervisors of the Oil Tax). 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.9.544
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