Receipt of paid maritime freight
Cursive, written along the fibres. The receipt occupies only the upper half of the sheet, the lower half is blank.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20217
Receipt for payment of sea freight charges and silver taxes TM 20217Hermopolite NomeApr. 7, AD 341
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A receipt issued by Aurelius Hatres for payments made to the provincial bank on behalf of Psychis in the 15th toparchy, through the praepositus Asklepiades. It records 389 talents for freight of seagoing ships and 36 talents 3,200 drachmas for silver taxes, totalling 425 talents 3,200 drachmas, in the Hermopolite nome in AD 341.
In English machine translation
Indiction 14, Pharmouthi 12. 15th toparchy, Psychis, through Asklepiades, praepositus. You have paid to the bank of the province, on account of the freight charge for seagoing ships of the 14th indiction, 389 talents; for the silver tax items of the same 14th assessment (kanon), 36 talents 3,200 drachmas; total together four hundred twenty-five talents and 3,200 drachmas, that is, 425 talents 3,200 drachmas.
I, Aurelius Hatres, issued (this).
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The naulon of seagoing ships was a levy toward the cost of shipping tax grain by sea; argyrikoi tituli are taxes assessed in money. The praepositus was the official in charge of a pagus (toparchy) in the 4th century.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Payment of Maritime Sea Freight). 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.preis.33
p.cair.preis.2ed.33
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