Receipt for Money Taxes
Receipt for garden taxes (hekte apomoira, geometria and others) issued to a certain Horion
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Receipt for garden taxes paid by Horion to the collectors at Karanis TM 12194Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt186 A.D.
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A tax receipt from Karanis recording three instalments paid in AD 186 by Horion to Syros and his fellow collectors of money taxes. The payments cover the apomoira on gardens for year 25 and related charges such as olive transport, naubion, eparourion, surcharges and exchange fees.
In English machine translation
Year 26 of Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus Eutyches Pius, Phamenoth 24. Horion paid to Syros and associates, collectors of money taxes in the allotment of Karanis, for the apomoira on gardens (?) of year 25, 1 drachma 1 1/2 obols, total 1 dr. 1 1/2 ob.; for transport of olives 1 obol 2 chalkoi; for naubion 1 obol 2 chalkoi;
for additional charges 2 obols; for eparourion 5 1/2 obols; for additional charges 1/2 obol; for exchange fee 1/2 obol. Pharmouthi 16:
for the apomoira on gardens of year 25,
5 drachmas, total 5 dr.; for transport of olives 4 obols 2 chalkoi; for naubion 1 1/2 obols; for additional charges 1 drachma
1 1/2 obols, total 1 dr. 1 1/2 ob.; for eparourion 3 drachmas 2 obols, total
[3 dr. 2 ob.]; for additional charges 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; for exchange fee 1 obol 2 chalkoi. Pachon 16:
[the same] man, for the apomoira on gardens of year 25,
[2 drachmas] 3 obols, total 2 dr. 3 ob.; for transport of olives 2 obols 2 chalkoi; for naubion 1 1/2 obols; for additional charges 3 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; for eparourion
[1 drachma 4 obols], total 1 dr. 4 ob.; for additional charges 1 obol; for exchange fee 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi.
The apomoira was a tax on vineyards and orchards (gardens); naubion was a dike-work tax and eparourion a land surcharge, with no exact English equivalents. The date given is that of the last instalment (Pachon 16).
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Garden Taxes). 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.6.386
ἔτους ἕκτου καὶ εἰκοστοῦ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Κομμόδου Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐτυχοῦς Εὐσεβοῦς Φαμενὼθ κδ διέγραψε Σύρῳ καὶ μετόχοις πράκτορσιν ἀργυρικῶν ἐν κλήρῳ Καρανίδος Ὡρίων παραδείσου πέμπτου καὶ εἰκοστοῦ ἔτους ἀπομοίρας δραχμὴν μίαν ὀβολὸν ἡμιωβέλιον, γίνονται δραχμὴ α ὀβολὸς ἡμι…