Receipt of tax payment in kind
Receipt for chaff of Karanis brought by Pemen in the name of Palemon to some collectors
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 14469
Receipt for chaff delivered by Pemen to the overseers of chaff TM 14469probably either Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, or unknown harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of Egypt301/302 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt in which Aurelius Philippos and his fellow overseers of chaff acknowledge to Palemon that Pemen delivered 100 and 50 pounds of chaff on account of two village communities. It dates to AD 301-302 and probably comes from Karanis in the Fayum.
In English machine translation
Aurelius Philippos and his associates, overseers of chaff, to Palemon, greetings. Pemen your (?) [...] delivered: of the villagers of [...], on account, 100 pounds;
of the villagers of [...], on account, 50 pounds.
[Year 18 and] 17 and 10, [...] 25.
Chaff was collected as a tax in kind, used for example in heating baths and in brickmaking; the triple regnal year (18, 17 and 10) refers to the joint reigns of the Tetrarchs. The place may alternatively be a harbour in the Herakleopolite or Memphite nome.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung für Spreu). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Receipt of tax payment in kind
Receipt for chaff of Karanis brought by Pemen in the name of Palemon to some collectors
o.mich.4.1123
Αὐρήλιος Φίλιπος καὶ οἱ μέτοχοι ἐπιμεληταὶ ἀχύρου Παλήμονι χαίρειν. Παρήνεγκε Πεμὴν οἰ ἴδιος κωμητῶν […]… ἐπὶ λόγου λίτρας ρ, κωμητῶν ιδ…ς ἐπὶ λόγου λίτρας ν. ἔτους ιη καὶ ιζ καὶ ι […]θ κε.