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Three tax receipts issued to Aurelia Charite TM 15589Hermopolites

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Three tax receipts issued to the landowner Aurelia Charite daughter of Amazonios in the Hermopolite nome: one for freight charges of sea-going ships, one for the price of barley under the canon of the 2nd indiction, and one for her fractional share of a levy of a donkey for mining work.

In English machine translation

[1] [… 9 lines lost …] [2] [… lines lost …] […] [for freight charges] of sea-going ships of the […] indiction, […] eleven talents 2,600 drachmas, [total] 11 talents 2,600 drachmas. Pachon 19, 8th toparchy. To Charite daughter of Amazonios, through Dorotheos, for the price of barley of the 2nd indiction of the canon, thirty-one talents, total 31 talents. To Aurelia Charite daughter of Amazonios. I have received from you your share due of the levy of a mining donkey, one twenty-fourth, one four-hundred-and-eighty-eighth (?), one ninety-sixth of a donkey, total 1/24 1/48 1/96 of a donkey, only. Hathyr 6. I, Aurelius Serenos, through me his son Theotimos, have signed.

The donkey fractions are written out in words with scribal errors; the numerals give 1/24, 1/48 and 1/96. The 'mining donkey' was a requisition of pack animals for state mines or quarries, apportioned among taxpayers in fractions.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Hermopolites

[1] [… 9 lines lost …] [2] [… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] ὑπὲρ ναύλου θαλασσίων πλοίων τῆς … ἰνδικτίωνος ……… τάλαντα ἕνδεκα δραχμὰς δισχιλίας ἑξακοσίας, γίνεται τάλαντα ια δραχμαὶ Βχ. Παχὼν ιθ, η τοπαρχίας. Χαρίτη Ἀμαζονίου διὰ Δωροθέου τιμῆς κριθῆς β ἰνδικτίωνος κανόνος τάλαντα τριά…