One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36788
Receipt for gold taxes paid by the village of Aphrodite TM 36788Antinoopolis
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A tax receipt issued by Heliodoros, provincial gold-tax collector of the Thebaid, to the villagers of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome. It acknowledges payment, made through the receiver Ioannes, of 27 solidi and 10 carats for the regular and miscellaneous gold taxes of the first instalment of a first indiction year.
In English machine translation
The people of the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome have paid, through Ioannes the receiver, on account of the regular (canonical) and miscellaneous gold taxes, likewise of the first instalment of the first indiction, twenty-seven solidi of gold and ten carats. Total: 27 solidi of gold, 10 carats, full weight, simple.
And for your security and that of the public account I have made this receipt with my signature, as stated above.
† I, Heliodoros, provincial gold-collector of the eparchy of the Thebaid, agree to the receipt for the twenty-seven solidi and ten carats, as stated above.
The entagion is a formal tax receipt; 'canonical' taxes were the regular fixed assessments, here paid in gold solidi and carats (1/24 of a solidus). The text gives only an indiction year, not an absolute date; it belongs to the 6th-century Aphrodito archive.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittance d’impôt). 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.cair.masp.1.67033
δεδώκασιν οἱ ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου, διὰ Ἰωάννου ὑποδέκτου, εἰς λόγον κανονικῶν καὶ παντοίων χρυσικῶν τίτλων ὁμοίως πρώτης καταβολῆς πρώτης ἰνδικτίονος, χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια εἴκοσι ἑπτὰ, κεράτια δέκα. γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια κζ κεράτια ι εὔσταθμα ἁπλᾶ. καὶ εἰς ὑμῶν …