Tax register: Summary of Payments in Kind (ordered by cleruchy)
Register giving a summary of grain payments for each cleruchy, month by month
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28804
Register summarizing wheat payments in kind by cleruchy TM 28804(probably) Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIInd century A.D.
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A tax register summarizing wheat payments in kind, arranged by numbered units (probably cleruchies) and month by month, with monthly and grand totals in artabas and transfers from the granary officials of Pharbaitha and Ptolemais Nea. It dates to the 2nd century AD and probably comes from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[Column 1]
[…] 1/2 1/3 1/24
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[…] 580 2/3 1/24 artabas of wheat
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[…] 1/6
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[Column 2]
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[…] 32 […]
Mesore 1st-10th, 32 artabas of wheat […] 1/3,
21st-30th, 27 1/6 artabas of wheat, total for the month 122 1/2 1/8 artabas of wheat,
sitologoi of Pharbaitha, Epeiph, 9 artabas of wheat, grand total 512 1/3 1/24, 10 artabas of wheat,
Thoth 11th-20th, 3 1/3 artabas of wheat, 21st-30th, 13 1/8 artabas of wheat, total for the month 16 1/3 1/8 artabas of wheat,
Tybi 3 2/3 artabas of wheat, 532 1/2, 14 artabas of wheat, Mecheir 16 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat, Phamenoth 24 1/2 artabas of wheat.
26. Pachon 18 2/3 1/24 artabas of wheat, Pauni 298 1/2 1/4 artabas of wheat,
Epeiph 1st-10th, 98 1/12 artabas of wheat, 11th-20th, 5 1/2 artabas of wheat,
total for the month 103 1/2 1/12 artabas of wheat,
Mesore 1st-10th, 51 2/3 1/24 artabas of wheat, 11th-20th, 34 1/12 artabas of wheat,
21st to the 5th intercalary day, 7 artabas of wheat, total for the month 92 2/3 1/8 artabas of wheat, grand total 513 1/2 1/3 artabas of wheat,
Thoth 11th-20th, 45 1/2 1/8 artabas of wheat, 21st-30th, 4 1/4 1/24 artabas of wheat, total for the month 49 1/2 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat,
Tybi 1/2 1/12 artaba of wheat, total 564 1/3 artabas of wheat, Mecheir 1 1/2 artabas of wheat,
sitologoi of Ptolemais Nea, 2 1/2 1/3 artabas of wheat, Phamenoth 2 1/2 artabas of wheat.
27. Pachon 33 artabas of wheat, Pauni 192 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat,
Epeiph 1st-10th, 131 1/3 1/24 artabas of wheat, 11th-20th, 71 2/3 1/8 artabas of wheat,
21st-30th, 2 artabas of wheat, total for the month 205 1/6 artabas of wheat,
Mesore 11th-20th, 31 1/2 artabas of wheat, 21st to the 5th intercalary day, 40 1/2 artabas of wheat,
total for the month 72 artabas of wheat, grand total 502 1/2 1/12 artabas of wheat, 15 1/2 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat, Tybi
19 1/2 artabas of wheat.
[Column 3]
28. Pachon […]
[…]
Mesore […]
[…]
Total […]
Thoth […]
Total […] artabas of wheat
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29. […]
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Thoth […]
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30. […]
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[Column 3, margin]
61 1/2 1/4
64 1/12
2
7 1/2 1/24
33 … 64 … 1/24
42
(deleted: 57)
74 1/2 1/3 1/12 artabas of wheat
The numbers 26 to 30 heading the entries probably designate cleruchies (land allotments). Sitologoi were the village granary officials who received grain taxes.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Summary 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.
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