Receipt
Receipt for gold or silver bullion purchased at a fixed price by the government from landholders; the rate at which this was exacted from them was probably based on the amount of taxes in wheat they paid
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33531
Receipt for gold paid toward the compulsory purchase (synone) TM 33531UnknownIVth century A.D.
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A fragmentary receipt in which Paulos son of Melas is recorded as paying one and a half grams of pure gold toward the synone, a compulsory government purchase. It is signed by Kollouthos, the official receiver, and dates to the 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[…] Paulos son of Melas paid (?) on account of the compulsory purchase (synone)
[…] to the steward (?) 1 1/2 grams of pure gold
[…] Pauni […]. I, Kollouthos, receiver, have signed.
The synone was a compulsory sale of goods, here gold, to the state at a fixed price. 'Gramma' is a weight unit of about 1/24 ounce.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.mich.15.725
[…]νεκεν Παῦλος Μέλανος ὑπὲρ συνωνῆς […]ἐπιτρόπῳ χρυσοῦ καθαροῦ γράμμα ἕν ἥμισυ […]α Παῦνι …. Κολλοῦθος ὑποδέκτης σεσημείωμαι.