Tax receipt
A tax receipt (114 nomismata, 8 keratia) for the third levy of taxes of the 4th indiction, signed by Victor, treasurer general of the eparchy of the Thebaid. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36793
Receipt to Aphrodite villagers for gold paid on annona levies TM 36793AntinoopolisVI Century AD
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A tax receipt issued to the villagers of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome for 114 solidi and 8 carats of gold paid toward the annona levies of the third instalment of the fourth indiction. It is signed by Victor, the provincial gold-collector of the Thebaid, and belongs to the archive of Dioskoros, probably 540-541.
In English machine translation
[The people of the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome have paid, through]
[…] [receiver, on account of] […] [and]
annona levies of the third instalment of the fourth indiction, [of gold]
114 solidi, 8 carats, full weight, simple. Total:
gold solidi 114, carats 8, 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, Victor, provincial gold-collector (chrysones) of the eparchy of the Thebaid, have made this
[receipt for the 114 solidi
8 carats, as stated above.]
The entagion is a formal official receipt; 'full weight, simple' (eustathma hapla) specifies the standard of the gold coins paid. The chrysones was the official responsible for collecting gold taxes for the province.
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.1.67038
δεδώκασιν οἱ ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου νομοῦ, διὰ […]ὑποδέκτου, εἰς λόγον[…]καὶ ἀννωνιακῶν εἰδῶν τρίτης καταβολῆς τετάρτης ἰνδικτίωνος, χρυσοῦ νομίσματα ἑκατὸν δέκα τέσσαρα, κεράτια ὀκτὼ εὔσταθμα ἁπλᾶ. γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομίσματα ριδ κεράτια η εὔσταθμα ἁπλᾶ. καὶ εἰς ὑμῶν…