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Receipt to Charite for meat paid toward the tax quota TM 15595Hermopolites

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Receipt issued to Charite daughter of Amazonios for instalment payments of meat due under the tax quota (canon), itemized by toparchy, pagus and indiction year, totalling about 93 pounds. It is dated Phaophi 8 and comes from the Hermopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[…] of meat of the canon (tax quota) […] Charite daughter of Amazonios, 3 1/2 pounds; of the 8th toparchy […] 32 1/3 pounds; of the 10th pagus 19 pounds, and for the 4th indiction […] of the canon; of the 6th pagus 5 1/2 pounds, and for the 3rd indiction […] of the pagus 7 1/3 pounds; of the 8th pagus 18 1/4 pounds […] price (?) of the 5th indiction; of the 8th toparchy 2 2/3 pounds, and for […] the 4th indiction […] indiction 4 2/3 pounds; total [together, of meat,] ninety-three [and a half and a twelfth] pounds. Phaophi 8. […]medes, I have signed.

The fractions in the total are restored; the canon was the annual tax assessment, here paid in meat by instalments.The units of the pagus and toparchy refer to administrative districts of the 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 Terminzahlung einer Steuer). 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

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