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Account of gold tax receipts from the accounting office for a village assistant TM 16219Hermopolites

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An account and receipt from Magistor, assistant of the accounting office, to Horouonchios, a village assistant, listing gold payments from the tax collection of the second indiction, including sums for named individuals and the monastery of Apa Iakobos. After deducting one solidus paid to the receiver Menas, a balance of 6 solidi 16 1/2 carats is acknowledged. It comes from the Hermopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] † To my brother Horouonchios, assistant of village I (?), Magistor, with God, assistant of the accounting office. I have received from the collection of the second indiction 6 solidi of gold, full weight, Alexandrian standard, given to Basileios, assistant […] six […] grain place (?) of the 1st indiction; likewise on behalf of Viktor son of Dios(koros?) son of Isidoros, carats 23, Alexandrian standard; likewise on behalf of the monastery of Apa Iakobos, from 6 solidi, 17 1/2 carats, seventeen and a half carats, Alexandrian standard; total together 7 solidi 16 1/2 carats, Alexandrian standard, of which there was also given to brother Menas, receiver, 1 solidus, full weight, Alexandrian standard; remainder 6 solidi 16 1/2 carats, Alexandrian standard, for the same 2nd indiction. Written Tybi 5, indiction 2. […] Magistor, with God, assistant of the accounting office, I have handed over 6 solidi of gold 16 1/2 carats, Alexandrian standard. † [verso] † Receipt (entagion) of the lord Magistor, 2nd indiction, 7 solidi of gold 16 1/2 carats, Alexandrian standard. †

Sums are given in gold solidi and carats (24 carats to the solidus) by the Alexandrian standard; the arithmetic of the items does not fully match the stated totals as preserved. Some words in line 3 are obscure.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Abrechnung über Steuereinnahmen). 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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