Receipt for Arrears of Land Tax
Receipt issued to a group of associates, probably partners in the sitologia, for payment in money (adaeratio) of arrears of the land tax
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12280
Receipt for money paid in place of wheat at Philadelphia TM 12280Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJune 30, 304 A.D.
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A receipt recording that Aphous, Papeeis and their partners paid 20 talents as the money price of wheat owed for several earlier years at Philadelphia. It was issued on 30 June 304 in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 20 and year 12 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti and of Constantius and Maximian the most illustrious Caesars, Epeiph 6. Aphous and Papeeis and their partners have paid, for the price of wheat of the 18th, 17th and 10th years, of Philadelphia, twenty talents, total 20 talents.
"Price of wheat" (timē pyrou) refers to a cash payment made instead of grain (adaeratio), here apparently for arrears of land tax. The payers may have been partners in the sitologia, the office of the granary officials.
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 Τιμὴ Πυροῦ). 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.10.600
ἔτους κ καὶ ιβ ἔτους τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Διοκλητιανοῦ καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ Σεβαστῶν καὶ Κωνσταντίου καὶ Μαξιμιανοῦ τῶν ἐπιφανεστάτων Καισάρων Ἐπεὶφ ϛ. διέγραψαν Ἄφον καὶ Παπέεις καὶ οἱ κοινωνοὶ τιμῆς πυροῦ ιη ἔτους καὶ ιζ ἔτους καὶ ι ἔτους Φιλαδελφείας τάλαντα εἴκοσι, γίνεται τάλαντα κ.