Tax Register: Daybook of Payments in Kind
Register recording payments in grain by day, place, type of land and name of the payer
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28803
Daybook of wheat payments by village and land category TM 28803(probably) Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt(Middle of the) IInd century A.D.
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A tax register recording payments of wheat in kind, listing payers by village (Ptolemais, Pharbaitha, Kerkesoucha) and category of land, with the basic amount, the additional measures charged, and the total. It comes from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome, around the middle of the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
[Column 1]
[…] Domi… phront…
[3] 1/6 artabas of wheat, with additional measures 1/2 1/24, total 3 2/3 1/24, difference 1/24
[…] Chiremon son of Straton, 3 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat
[…] total 7 1/6 1/24 artabas of wheat
[…] Akousilaos …
[1] 1/12 artaba of wheat, with additional measures 1/6 1/24, total 1 1/4 1/24 artabas of wheat
[5] 1/6 1/24 artabas of wheat, with additional measures 1/2 1/3 1/24, total 6 1/12 artabas of wheat
[…] of the katoikoi, 2 1/2 1/8, with additional measures 1/3 1/8, total 3 1/12 artabas of wheat
Of the epibole, 2/3 artaba of wheat, with additional measures 1/8, total 2/3 1/8 artaba of wheat
Ptolemais, of the katoikoi: Isidoros son of Akousilaos
10 1/2 artabas of wheat, with additional measures 1 1/2 1/4, total 12 1/4 artabas of wheat
[…] of the katoikoi: Tapaeis daughter of Petesouchos
3 2/3 1/24 artabas of wheat, with additional measures 1/2 1/8, total 4 1/3 artabas of wheat
Ptolemais, of the katoikoi: Theano daughter of Dioskoros
7 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat, with additional measures 1 1/4, total 8 1/2 1/8 artabas of wheat
Of the guards, 8 1/2 1/3 artabas of wheat, with additional measures 1 1/2, total 10 1/3 artabas of wheat
Pharbaitha, of the katoikoi, 12 1/12 artabas of wheat, with additional measures 2 1/24, total 14 1/8, difference 1/6
[…] Apollonarion daughter of Didas
5 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat, with additional measures 1/2 1/3 1/12, total 6 1/4 1/24, difference 1/12
[…] Isidoros son of Is[…]
[…] 1/2 […]
[…]
[Column 2]
Ptolemais, of the katoikoi: Ptol… […]
… artabas of wheat […], with additional measures […]
Of the guards, 2 1/3 artabas of wheat, with additional measures 1/3 1/12
Of the epibole, 1/3 1/12 artaba of wheat, with additional measures 1/12
Pharbaitha … […]
Pharbaitha … […]
Ptolemais, of public land: Satabous son of P… […]
Kerkesoucha, likewise, the same man […]
Ptolemais, of revenue land: Petheus […]
Of the Germanician estate […]
Of revenue land: Pasion […]
Of the katoikoi: Hermion son of Chiremon […]
… […]
Of the epibole: Isidora daughter of Ptolemaios […]
Of the Germanician estate: Ptol… son of Akousilaos […]
… the same […]
… the same […]
Of the Germanician estate … […]
… […]
[…]
"Additional measures" (prosmetroumena) were surcharges added to the basic grain tax; "epibole" was land compulsorily assigned for cultivation. The Germanician estate was an imperial estate named after Germanicus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Daybook of Payments in Kind). 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.mich.6.374
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