Receipt for Tax Payment in Kind
Receipt for chaff
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32744
Receipt for 150 pounds of chaff TM 32744unnamed harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of Egypt(Early) IVth century A.D.
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A short ostracon receipt for a delivery of 150 pounds of chaff, dated by indiction and signed by a certain Sambas. It comes from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome and dates to the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] indiction
[of cha]ff, one hundred fifty pounds,
150 pounds. I, Sambas, have signed.
The beginning of the receipt, including the payer's name and the indiction year, is lost. One catalogue gives the provenance as an unnamed harbor in the Herakleopolite or Memphite nome rather than Karanis.
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.3.1023
[… ? lines lost …] ἰνδικτίωνος ἀχύρου λίτρας ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα , λίτρας ρν. Σαμβᾶς σεσημείωμαι.