Receipts
Receipts on recto and verso
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 143176
Record of payments from chief tax-farmers through Paulos TM 143176Provenance unknownIV-VI A.D.
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A record of payments in gold coin received from the chief tax-farmers of a 12th indiction year, delivered through a man named Paulos, on Choiak 8 and Tybi 25. It dates to the 6th or 7th century AD; its provenance is unknown.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Choiak 8, from the same chief tax-farmers (telonarchs) of the 12th indiction, administrators, through Paulos: 8 dirty solidi less 7 carats.
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[verso]
Tybi 25, through Paulos, chief tax-farmer, administrator of the 12th indiction: 2 solidi, 1/2 1/3 carat.
"Dirty" (rhypara) solidi seems to denote coins of reduced or substandard quality, hence the deduction in carats. One description dates the papyrus to the 4th-6th century instead.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Payment Record). 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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