Three tax receipts issued to the landowner Aurelia Charite, daughter of Amazonios, of Hermopolis. They record her deliveries of 730 sextarii of wine to a city curator, of meat to the curator of meat for several indictions and pagi, and of 5,000 pounds of wheat chaff loaded onto a boat by a shipmaster, in AD 325 and 327.
In English machine translation
[1]
Aurelius Didymos son of Serenos, councillor, curator (epimeletes) of Hermopolis, to Aurelia Charite daughter of Amazonios, from the same city, greetings.
I have received from you, on the private account, of the canon (assessment) of the produce of the 13th indiction, for the 9th pagus, 730 Italian sextarii of new wine, total 730 sextarii of wine, and this is the delivery (unloading) in full. The receipt is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. Phaophi 16.
I, Aurelius Didymos son of Serenos, through me his brother Taurinos, have signed. I, Aurelius Achilleus, have signed. Phaophi
12: 650; 13: 80 sextarii.
Aurelius Leon son of Polydeukes […], curator of meat, to Aurelia Charite daughter of Amazonios, greetings. I have received from you for the canon of meat of the 15th indiction 46 pounds, and for the 14th indiction 89 pounds, total 135 pounds, for the 10th pagus of Sinarchebis; and likewise for the 11th pagus of Sinape, of the canon of the 10th (?) indiction, 37 1/2 pounds, total 37 1/2 pounds.
I, Aurelius Leon, curator, have signed.
Phamenoth 24.
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Aurelius Tyrannos son of Bekis, his mother being Trous, about 40 years old, with a scar on the index finger of the left hand, from the village of Temseu Moron in the Hermopolite nome, shipmaster (epiplous) of chaff, to Aurelia Charite daughter of Amazonios, former gymnasiarch and councillor of Hermopolis, greetings. I have received from you and loaded onto the boat provided, on the private account, of the canon of the produce of the 13th indiction, for the 9th pagus, 5,000 Italian pounds of wheat chaff, total 5,000 pounds. The receipt is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent. In the consulship of Anicius Paulinus and Ionius Julianus, the most illustrious, Thoth 26.
I, Aurelius Tyrannos son of Bekis, shipmaster of chaff of the 9th pagus, have received from you 5,000 Italian pounds of chaff as stated above. Aurelius […]
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The canon was the annual tax assessment in kind; a pagus was a fiscal district of the nome in the 4th century. The consular date (Paulinus and Julianus, AD 325) fixes the chaff receipt; the meat receipt is dated by the records to 20 March 327.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Drei Steuerquittungen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.