One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32725

Receipt for wine delivered for the canon, with freight and unloading TM 32725unbekanntIV

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A receipt issued by Didymos, an epimeletes (supervisor), acknowledging payment of 500 Italian sextarii of wine for the tax quota (canon) of the first indiction, together with freight and unloading costs. It dates to the 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] has paid for the canon of the 1st new indiction 500 Italian sextarii of wine, total 500, and for these the freight charges and the unloading. Choiak 10. I, Didymos, epimeletes, have signed. [verso] [… 3 lines lost …]

The canon was a fixed tax quota in kind; the payer's name is lost at the start. The xestes (sextarius) was a liquid measure of roughly half a litre.

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 Taxes). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IV

[r] δέδωκεν ὑπὲρ κανόνος α νέας ἰνδικτίονος οἴνου ξέστας Ἰταλικοὺς πεντακοσίους γείνονται φ καὶ τούτων τὰ ναῦλα καὶ τὴν ἀπογόμωσιν. Χοίακ ι. Δίδυμος ἐπιμελητὴς σεσημείωμαι. [v] [… 3 lines lost …]