Receipt for Tax Payment in Kind
Receipt for chaff paid by Ptolas in the name of Paesis
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Receipt for chaff delivered by Paesis through Ptolas TM 32740Karanis (Arsinoites)(Early) IVth century A.D. (January 3)
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An ostracon receipt recording that Paesis son of Aunes of Karanis delivered 80 pounds of chaff through Ptolas, for the 10th indiction. It is signed by Sokras and dates to the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
Tybi 8.
Paesis son of Aunes, villager of Karanis, has delivered through Ptolas, for the 10th indiction, eighty pounds of chaff, 80 pounds.
I, Sokras, have signed.
The chaff (achyron) was likely a tax in kind, used for fuel or for mixing into mud brick. The word 'villagers' is plural in the Greek, perhaps loosely referring to both men.
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.3.1019
Τῦβι η παρήνεγκεν Παῆσις Αὐνῆ διὰ Πτολᾶ κωμητῶν Καρανίδος ι ἰνδικτίωνος ἀχύρου λίτρας ὀγδοήκοντα, λίτρας π. Σωκρᾶς σεσημείωμαι.