Receipt for Money Tax
Receipt for hay tax (monodesmia chortou) issued to a certain Kastor
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12196
Receipt for monodesmia of hay paid by Kastor TM 12196Stratonos, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt172/173[?] A.D.
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A tax receipt recording that Kastor paid 8 drachmas 12 obols for the hay tax (monodesmia chortou) and other items, through the village elders. It dates to year 13 of Marcus Aurelius (AD 172/173) and comes from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 13 of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord.
Kastor son of Ptol(...) has paid for the monodesmia of hay and other kinds, through the elders of Straton('s village), 8 drachmas 12 obols, total 8 drachmas 12 obols.
Monodesmia chortou was a levy on hay, perhaps originally paid in bundles, later commuted to money. One record takes 'Stra(...)' as the village Stratonos (Herakleides division) rather than a personal name Straton.
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 μονοδεσμία χόρτου). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Receipt for hay tax
Receipt for hay tax (monodesmia chortou) issued to a certain Kastor.
p.mich.6.388
ἔτους ιγ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου διέγραψε Κάστωρ Πτολ ὑπὲρ μονοδεσμίας χόρτου καὶ ἄλλων εἰδῶν διὰ πρεσβυτέρων Στράτωνος δραχμὰς ὀκτὼ ὀβολοὺς δώδεκα, γίνονται δραχμαὶ η ὀβολοὶ ιβ.