Receipt for Money Tax
Receipt of wine for annona, issued to a certain Horion
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Receipt for money payment of the annona of sour wine TM 12197Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt215 A.D.
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A tax receipt recording that Horion son of Simourk paid 8 drachmas to Ptollarion and his fellow collectors of the annona levy of sour wine at Karanis. It is dated to the month Hathyr of year 24 of Caracalla, AD 215.
In English machine translation
Year 24 of Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Parthicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Germanicus Maximus Pius Augustus, Hathyr. Horion son of Simourk has paid to Ptollarion and associates, collectors of the annona of sour wine of Karanis, 8 drachmas, total 8 drachmas.
Oxos is cheap sour wine (posca) supplied to the army under the annona; here the levy is paid in money, not in kind.
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 ἀννῶνα ὄξους). 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.6.390
ἔτους κδ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Σεουήρου Ἀντωνείνου Παρθικοῦ μεγίστου Βρεττανικοῦ μεγίστου Γερμανικοῦ μεγίστου Εὐσεβοῦς Σεβαστοῦ Ἁθὺρ διέγραψε Πτολλαρίωνι καὶ μετόχοις πράκτορσιν ἀννώνας ὄξου Καρανίδος Ὡρίων Σιμοῦρκ δραχμὰς ὀκτώ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ η.