Tax receipt
Tax receipt (36 nomismata) for the kanonika of the 8th indiction, issued to the magistrates of Aphrodito by the treasurers Ammonios and Victor. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36796
Receipt for gold paid by Aphrodite towards the canonical taxes TM 36796AntinoopolisVI Century AD
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A tax receipt in which the gold-buyers Flavius Ammonios and Victor, acting through their deputy Ammonios, acknowledge that the villagers of Aphrodite paid 36 gold solidi through the receiver Kokkinos. The payment was the third instalment of the regular taxes (kanonika) for the eighth indiction, probably AD 514/515, and the receipt was issued at Antinoopolis.
In English machine translation
The people of the village of Aphrodite have paid, through Kokkinos the receiver, on account of the canonical taxes of the assessment of the eighth indiction, for the third instalment, according to the measure of Mammas, of gold thirty-six solidi, simple.
Total: 36 gold solidi, simple, only.
And for your security and that of the treasury, I have made this receipt (entagion) as set out above.
Flavii Ammonios and Victor, gold-buyers (chrysonai), through me, Ammonios, deputy (diadochos) of the gold-buyers: it is agreed by me as set out above.
"Simple" (haplа) solidi and "the measure of Mammas" refer to the standard by which the gold coins were weighed or reckoned. The text belongs to the archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito.
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.1.67041
δεδώκασιν οἱ ἀπὸ κώμης Ἀφροδίτης διὰ Κοκκίνου ὑποδέκτου εἰς λόγον κανονικῶν κανόνος ὀγδόης ἰνδικτίονος ὑπὲρ τρίτης καταβολῆς, πρὸς μέτρησιν Μαμμᾶς, χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια τριάκοντα ἕξ, ἁπλᾶ. γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια λϛ ἁπλᾶ μόνα. καὶ εἰς σὴν ἀσφάλειαν καὶ τοῦ δημοσίου, πεποίημαι τοῦτ…