One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 17738

Receipts for Charite daughter of Amazonios, including meat tax TM 17738Hermopolis321 - 326

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Fragmentary receipts or tax records concerning Charite daughter of Amazonios, a landowner in the Hermopolite nome, for payments including meat levied under the tax assessment in the 9th pagus (villages of Selilais and Sinarchebis). Dated AD 321-326, from Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

[1] [… 14 lines lost …] […] … 1 myriad, 2 (?) […] … paid (?) […] talents […] I have signed […] year (?) […] to them (?) […] greetings […] of the conversion into money […] […] drachmas […] [2] 9th pagus of Selilais: to Charite daughter of Amazonios … of the ninth indiction […] … of the priest of the … … eighth … third … … Through me, Serenos, the guarantor of identity, I have signed, and it is my own handwriting. [… ? lines lost …] 9th pagus of Sinarchebis: to Charite daughter of Amazonios, for private meat of the tax assessment of the tenth indiction, 140 pounds […]; of the 7th indiction likewise 137 pounds; of the 8th indiction likewise 80 […] pounds [… ? lines lost …]

Charite is a well-known female landowner of 4th-century Hermopolis. A gnostēr was an official who vouched for a person's identity, here signing on behalf of someone.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ein neuer Charite - Papyrus). 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 · 321 - 326 · Hermopolis

[1] [… 14 lines lost …] […]…ασι μυριὰς α Β […]… διεγρα […]τάλαντα […]σεσημείωμαι […]ετος […]αυταις […]χαίρειν […]ἐξαργυρισμοῦ […] […] δραχμὰς […] [2] θ πάγου Σελιλάεως Χαρίτη Ἀμαζονίου … ἐνάτης ἰνδικτίωνος […]νο…ιοσιερέως τοῦ … … ὄγδοον συν … τρίτον … … διʼ ἐμοῦ σερήνου γνωστῆρος…