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Gold tax receipts listed by city sections (merides) TM 34852HermopolisV

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Tax receipts and accounts from Hermopolis, 5th century AD, recording payments in gold grams and 'soiled' carats made by or through Taurinos son of Plousammon for various taxpayers registered in different city sections (merides) for a third indiction year. A second part lists individual payers by section with breakdowns of the amounts.

In English machine translation

[…] of the third indiction. Taurinos son of Plousammon, through Ioannes […] for the same indiction, of various names of the section (meris) of Anatolios […] for 47 1/2 soiled carats and for the section of Dioskorides, in the name of the […] for 25 soiled carats section of Georgios, in the name of the same, gold grams […] for 26 soiled carats and for the section of Ammonios, in the name of the same, gold grams […] for 10 soiled carats and for the section of Taurinos, in the name of Anoupis, gold grams 1/2 1/3 […] for 5 soiled carats and for the section of Germanos, in the name of Neoteros son of Artemidoros, gold grams … for 1 soiled carat and for the section of Germanos, in the name of Hermaion the magistrianus, gold grams 2 1/2 for 23 soiled carats and for the section of …, in the name of Phibis son of Sarapion, gold grams 2 for 12 soiled carats Total of the receipt: gold grams 14 1/2 1/3 1/12 for 149 1/2 soiled carats. Section of Achill[…] Kyrillos son of Ammonios, grams 1 1/2; tin(?) 1/4 1/24; chl(?) 1/4 1/24 […] tir(?) grams 3 1/3; of twentieths, carats 18; for carats …5 1/2 Section of Taurinos Ammonios son of Paniskos, grams 2 1/2; tin(?) 1/2; chl(?) 1/3 1/12 […] […] tir(?) grams 5; of twentieths, carats 20; for carats 63 Section of Dioskorides … the councillor, gram 1 1/3 1/24 […] chl(?) 1/6 1/24 … … tir(?) grams […] 2 1/2 3/4(?); of twentieths, carats […]

'Soiled carats' (keratia rhyparа) refers to a money of account for debased or worn coin; the abbreviations tin, chl and tir in the second part are of uncertain meaning and left untranslated.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Steuerquittungen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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