Tax receipt
A tax receipt (114 nomismata 14 keratia) signed by Heliodorus, general treasurer of the eparchy of the Thebaid, for the third levy of the chrysika of the sixth indiction. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36790
Receipt for gold taxes paid by the village of Aphrodite TM 36790AntinoopolisVI Century AD
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A tax receipt issued by Heliodoros, the provincial gold-treasurer, to the villagers of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome. It records their payment, through the receiver Ioannes, of 114 solidi and 14 carats for the third instalment of the regular and other gold taxes of the sixth indiction. It belongs to the archive of Dioskoros and dates probably to AD 542-543.
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 canonical taxes and all kinds of gold levies of the third instalment of the sixth indiction [...] of the Antaiopolite nome, 114 gold solidi and 14 carats, of full weight, simple; total 114 gold solidi, 14 carats, of full weight, simple. And for your security and that of the public account I have issued this receipt with my signature, as aforesaid.
† I, Heliodoros, provincial gold-treasurer of the eparchy, have issued this receipt for the 114 solidi, 14 carats, for the third instalment of the sixth indiction, as aforesaid.
The entagion is a formal tax receipt. Nomismatia (solidi) and keratia (carats, 1/24 of a solidus) are Byzantine gold units; 'simple' (haplа) refers to the reckoning standard of the coins.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittance analogue). 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.1.67035
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