Receipt for Money of Tax Collection
Receipt issued by an unknown official to the sitologoi of Philadelphia for successive payments of money collected from arrears in the land tax
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Receipts for payments of the price of wheat by the sitologoi of Philadelphia TM 12310Philadelphia (Arsinoites)May/June 304 A.D.
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A series of receipts recording money payments made by the sitologoi (grain officials) of Philadelphia, including Aphon, Ptolemaios and Pasis, for the commuted price of wheat owed from earlier tax years, along with a payment for a gold levy. The entries date from Pauni to Mesore of the 20th/12th regnal year of Diocletian and his colleagues, AD 304.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
And on the 21st the same persons paid, for the price of wheat of the 17th and 16th and 9th years, for Philadelphia, two talents, total 2 talents.
And from the order for gold of the month Pauni, in the name of Sarapammon, former prytanis, 1 talent 100 drachmas, for the epinemesis (supplementary assessment).
And on the 28th the same persons paid, for the price of wheat of the 17th and 16th and 9th year, for Philadelphia, two talents, total 2 talents.
And on Pauni 4 Aphon and Ptolemaios and their partners, sitologoi, paid, for the price of wheat of the 17th year and 16th year and 9th year, for Philadelphia, thirteen talents and three thousand drachmas, total 13 talents 3,000 drachmas.
And on the 7th the same persons likewise paid, for the price of wheat of the 17th year and 16th year and 9th year, for Philadelphia, six talents and three thousand drachmas, total 6 talents 3,000 drachmas.
Total 24 (?) talents 1,500 drachmas.
[second hand]
Mesore 2, from the account of uncoined silver of Eugenios, two talents, total 2 talents.
[column 2]
Year 20 and 12 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian Augusti and Constantius and Maximian the most illustrious Caesars, Epeiph 2.
Aphon and Pasis paid, for the price of wheat of the 17th year and 16th year and 9th year, by exchange, for Philadelphia, fifteen talents and three thousand drachmas, total 15 talents 3,000 drachmas.
And on the 4th the same persons likewise paid, for the price of wheat of the 17th year and 16th year and 9th year, by exchange, for Philadelphia, four talents and four thousand drachmas, total 4 talents 4,000 drachmas.
Likewise another two thousand drachmas, total 2,000 drachmas.
Total 20 talents 3,000 drachmas.
"Price of wheat" (timē pyrou) refers to arrears of the grain tax paid in money instead of kind. The column 1 total is written as δϛ in the edition; the figure 24 talents is a likely reading of the sum.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipts for τιμὴ πυροῦ and other 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.12.645
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