Tax receipt
Tax receipt, signed by Fl. Origenes, and issued to the protocometes of Aphrodito, for having paid 8 nomismata less 31 keratia 1/2. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
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Receipt from Flavius Origenes to the headmen of Aphrodite for gold solidi TM 36799Antinoopolis (?)VI Century AD
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A receipt issued by Flavius Origenes, through his notary Phoibammon, to the village headmen of Aphrodite (Aphrodito), acknowledging payment through their collector John of 8 gold solidi less 31 1/2 carats. It belongs to the archive of Dioscoros and dates to about AD 537-538.
In English machine translation
Flavius Origenes, through me, Phoibammon, notary, to the headmen (protokometai) of Aphrodite.
I have received from you, through your collector John, by commission of the […], 8 gold solidi less 31 1/2 carats by the scale.
Total: 8 gold solidi less 31 1/2 carats by the scale. And for your security I have made this receipt (entagion) […] of the first indiction …
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Protokometai were the leading men responsible for a village's tax payments; 'less 31 1/2 carats' means the sum was 8 solidi minus that weight in carats (24 carats to the solidus), by the official scale. The end of the text is lost.
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.1.67044
Φλαύιος Ὀριγένης διʼ ἐμοῦ Φοιβάμμωνος νοταρίου τοῖς πρωτοκωμήταις Ἀφροδίτης. ἐδεξάμην παρʼ ὑμῶν διὰ τοῦ ὑμῶν ὑποδέκτου Ἰωάννου κατʼ ἐπιτροπὴν τοῦ […] χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια ὀκτὼ παρὰ κεράτια τριάκοντα ἓν ἥμισυ ζυγῷ. γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια η παρὰ κεράτια λα 𐅵 ζυγῷ. καὶ εἰς ὑμῶν ἀσφά…