Fragment of an account
Fragment of a financial roll issued by the office of Antaiopolis(?). Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19010
Account of tax instalments and payments in gold, including for Numidian troops TM 19010Aphrodites kome (Antaiopolites)AD 537
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Fragments of a financial account from Aphrodito recording payments in gold solidi and carats, including expenses for wine, soldiers, beams sent to Antinoou, instalments of the canonical tax of the 14th indiction and payments for a unit of Numidian soldiers. Part of the account concerns gold handed over by Ioannes, a tax receiver. It belongs to the archive of Dioskoros.
In English machine translation
[1]
[…] through the expenditures
[…] of the same indiction
[…]
[…]
[…]
[…] 6 carats
[…] 20 (?)
[…]
[2]
18 19 1/2
Viktor son of Chrestos, for wine, 2 solidi 15 carats
of the tribune of the police (eirenikoi), 1 solidus 1 carat
Georgios, singularius, son of Theophilos, for the allowance (?) of the soldiers, 9 carats
Megas son of Demosthenes, 6 1/2 carats
for 16 beams to Antinoou, 8 carats
[…]
[…]
[3]
of the canonical taxes of the same 14th indiction
1st instalment, 150 solidi
2nd instalment, 128 solidi
3rd instalment, 124 solidi 21 1/2 carats
2nd four-month period of the Numidians, 34 solidi 15 carats
for the runners (?) […]
[…]
[4]
Account of gold given by Ioannes, receiver, through […]
for 3 orders of the most noble Numidians […]
of the tax assessment of the fourteenth indiction
as follows:
at Antinoou, 13 solidi less 65, and 6 carats; making 10 solidi 13 carats
and for Phoibammon from Tanyaithi, 1 solidus less 4, and 2 carats; total 1 solidus less 2
in the village, Pachon 30 of the 15th indiction, through Pheut, 7 solidi less 19 1/2 on the goldsmith's standard […]
and through the same Ioannes, 1 solidus less 4 carats on the goldsmith's standard
total 8 solidi less 19 on the goldsmith's standard; making net 6 solidi 13 carats
[…]
Phrases such as 'solidi less 65' express solidi reduced by a number of carats from a standard; the exact accounting meaning of some figures is uncertain. The Numidians were a military unit stationed in the region, and 'goldsmith's standard' refers to a weighing standard for gold..
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.masp.1.67056
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