Tax Register: List of Assessments and Receipts for Payments in Kind (ordered by cleruchy)
Fragmentary list giving for each cleruchy a summary of the assessment in kind (corrected after the episkepsis?) and a summary of collections month by month
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Register of wheat assessments and monthly collections by cleruchy TM 28802(probably) Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Middle/late) IInd century A.D.
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Fragmentary tax register from Karanis listing, for numbered cleruchies (69 to 72), the wheat assessed, with additional charges labelled phoretron and hyps on stated areas of land, the totals, and the wheat actually measured in the months Pachon, Pauni, Epeiph and Mesore. It dates to the second half of the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
[column 1]
69: wheat, artabas […]
phoretron on 64 arouras […]
hyps on 98 1/16 1/32 arouras, wheat 12 1/2 1/3 1/8 artabas,
total wheat 690 1/12 artabas,
of which measured: Pachon, wheat 24 artabas,
Pauni, wheat 240 1/3 1/24 artabas,
Epeiph, wheat 256 1/6 artabas; sacred (?)
70: wheat 538 2/3 1/8 artabas,
phoretron on 64 1/4 1/32 arouras, wheat 48 1/6 1/24 artabas,
hyps on 86 1/2 1/64 1/128 arouras, wheat 11 1/3 1/12 artabas,
total wheat ⟦598 1/3 1/12⟧ 6[…] 1/8 artabas, threshing floor 1/2 1/12,
of which measured: Pachon, wheat 69 1/2 1/3 1/24 artabas,
Pauni, wheat 266 1/4 artabas,
Epeiph, wheat 255 1/6 artabas.
[column 2]
[71: wheat, artabas] […]
phoretron on 6[…] arouras, [wheat, artabas] […]
hyps on 91 1/2 […] arouras, [wheat, artabas] […]
total wheat ⟦59[…]⟧ […] artabas,
of which measured: Pauni, wheat 24[…] artabas,
Epeiph, wheat 151 2/3 […] artabas,
Mesore […]
72: wheat 577 1/2 artabas,
phoretron on 45 1/2 1/4 1/32 arouras, wheat 33[…] artabas,
hyps on 88 1/2 arouras, wheat […] artabas,
total wheat 655 […] artabas, threshing floor 1/2 1/12,
of which measured: Pachon, wheat 115 1/8 artabas,
Pauni, wheat 218 1/2 1/3 artabas,
Epeiph, wheat 190 1/3 artabas.
Phoretron (a transport charge) and hyps (an uncertain abbreviated charge or land category) have no exact English equivalent; 'halo' refers to a threshing-floor charge. The numbers 69-72 are taken to identify cleruchies, as the catalogue description suggests.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Assessments and Receipts). 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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