Receipt of tax payment in kind
Fragment of receipt for chaff
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32930
Fragment of a receipt for chaff TM 32930Either Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, or unknown harbor, Memphite or Herakleopolite nome, province of Egypt(Early) IVth century A.D.
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Fragment of an ostracon receipt recording a delivery of 240 pounds of chaff, apparently connected with Karanis. It dates to the early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] of Karanis, of chaff 240 pounds,
pounds 240, only.
Chaff (achyron) was collected as a tax in kind, often for the army or for heating baths. One record gives the provenance as either Karanis or an unknown harbor in the Memphite or Herakleopolite nome.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment einer Quittung für Spreu). 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.4.1126
[… ? lines lost …] […]Καρανίδος ἀχύρου λίτρας διακοσίας τεσσαράκοντα, λίτρας σμ, μόνας.