Receipt for Tax Payment in Kind
Receipt for chaff paid by Pannous
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32734
Receipt for chaff delivered by Pannous son of Tkaeis TM 32734Karanis (Arsinoites)(Early) IVth century A.D. (July 4)
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A receipt recording that Pannous son of Tkaeis delivered 240 pounds of chaff as a tax payment in kind for the second indiction. It is dated Epeiph 10 (4 July) and signed by Theodotos, and comes from Karanis in the Fayum in the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
Epeiph 10.
Pannous son of Tkaeis, of the village of […]ton, delivered for the second indiction 240 (two hundred forty) pounds of chaff, total 240 pounds, only.
I, Theodotos, have signed.
2
Chaff (achyron) was collected as a tax in kind, often for use as fuel or for the army. The village name is only partly legible, and the final numeral 2 probably repeats the indiction year.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt. 2. Chaff). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.mich.3.1013
Ἐπεὶφ ι παρήνεγκε Παννοῦς ὁ Τκαεῖτος κώμης …τονος ὑπὲρ δευτέρας ἰνδικτίωνος ἀχύρου λίτραςδιακοσίας τεσσαράκοντα, γίνονται λίτραι σμ, μόνας. Θεόδοτος σεσημείωμαι. β