One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 12531
Account of merismos tax payments by month TM 12531Found at: Karanis363-364
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An account of payments made toward the merismos, an apportioned tax, for the months of Pauni, Epeiph, Mesore and Thoth, listing individual contributors and sums in talents and occasionally gold solidi. It comes from Karanis and dates to AD 363-364.
In English machine translation
Of the merismos for the month of Pauni: 10 talents
of which: through Pamas 3,100 talents
for the price of wine 6,500 talents
Papeis son of Atisios 2,000 talents
Pankratis 10,000 talents
Ision 2,500 talents
Total 24,100 talents
Valeris 2,000 talents
for the kouphismos 1,000 talents
through Demetrios 4,700 talents
⟦other⟧ 2,000
other 1,650 talents
Epeiph 21
through Valerius son of Antiourios 1 solidus, 28,000 talents
the same 6,900 talents
Of the merismos for the month of Mesore
Pankration
1,160 talents
Eus 650 talents; Aion through Achillas 3,200 talents
Aion 1,600 talents; through Demetrios 10,000 talents, 5,000 (?)
Sokrates 500 talents; Hatres 500 talents; Pas 2,800 talents
Of the merismos for the month of Thoth
10 talents
of which: Papeis 3,100 talents; Aion 3,960 talents
Hol 2,000 talents; other 1,500 talents; the same 1 solidus
Sokrates 500 talents; Isidoros 550 talents
Aion 500 talents
23,000 talents
Merismos was a tax apportioned among taxpayers; kouphismos refers to a relief or reduction. The talent figures reflect the heavily inflated copper currency of the 4th century, and some numeral readings (e.g. the 10-talent headings, likely 10,000) are uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Tax Payments). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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μερισμοῦ μηνὶ Παῦνι τάλαντα α ὧν διὰ Παμᾶ τάλαντα Γρ τιμῆς οἴνου τάλαντα Ϛφ Παπεῖς Ἀτισίου τάλαντα Β Πανκράτις τάλαντα α Ἰσίων τάλαντα Βφ ὁμοῦ τάλαντα β Δρ Οὐαλέρις τάλαντα Β κουφισμοῦ τάλαντα Α διὰ Δημητρίου τάλαντα Δψ Β ἄλλα τάλαντα Αχν Ἐπεὶφ κα διὰ Οὐαλερίου Ἀντιουρίου νομισμά…