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Receipt for annona and gold canonica payment TM 34853HermopolisV - VI (?)

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A tax receipt from Hermopolis, probably of the 5th or 6th century AD, issued by the official receiving the military annona and the gold canonica payments. It records that a man (name damaged) and Eudoxia, children of Phoibammon, paid 15 1/2 carats of gold for the first indiction, countersigned by Menas the diastoleus.

In English machine translation

Receiver of the annona at the place of the Mauri, and of the gold canonica, of the first indiction. […] son of Phoibammon and Eudoxia daughter of Phoibammon, mother Maria: you have paid for the same indiction 15 1/2 carats of gold, total 15 1/2 carats of gold only. † Menas, diastoleus, agrees.

"Topoi of the Mauri" probably refers to the quarters of a Moorish military unit stationed near Hermopolis. A diastoleus was a tax-collection official who checked and countersigned payments.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung über Annona militaris und Canonica). 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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bgu.12.2171

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · V - VI (?) · Hermopolis

ὑποδέκτης ἀννωνῶν ἐπὶ τόπων Μαύρων καὶ χρυσοῦ κανονικῶν πρώτης ἰνδικτίονος· …ε…ει… Φοιβάμμωνος καὶ Εὐδοξία Φοιβάμμωνος μητρὸς Μαρίας· δεδώκατε ὑπὲρ τῆς αὐτῆς ἰνδικτίονος χρυσοῦ κεράτια δεκαπέντε ἥμισυ, γίνεται χρυσοῦ κεράτια ιε 𐅵 μόνα. † Μηνᾶς διαστολεὺς συμφωνεῖ.