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An account from Karanis listing payments of barley by a group of villagers on Mesore 12 to 16, followed by money payments by the same men on Mesore 13. It dates to August 315.
The money sums are written with the sign for thousands, so Ε and Δ are read as 5,000 and 4,000 drachmas, reflecting the inflated currency of the early 4th century. The payers may have formed a fiscal group (pittakion).
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 Collections in Barley and in Money). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
The papyrus is complete in its outer dimensions, but is considerably damaged in the lower half. The writing-in a clear, medium-sized, slightly slanting cursive- is in three columns. The surface of Column I is badly abraded. In Columns II and III, on the other hand, the damage to …
[1] λόγος εἰσπράξεως κριθῶν……[…] Μεσορὴ ιβ Διόσκορος Τιβερίνου ἀρτάβαι β μέτρα β Πατῖσις Ἰσιδώρου μέτρα θ Παπέεις Παντῆλμέτρα θ ιγ Οὐαλᾶς Σαραπίωνος ἀρτάβη α μέτρα β Παῆσις Μέλανος μέτρα η Παπέεις Παντῆλ μέτρα δ Διόσκορος Τιβερίνου μέτρα η Διόσκορος Κάστορος μέτρα η ο……ας ἀρτάβη …
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