Account (?)
On the recto, fragment of a financial roll divided into two columns. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36802
Account of grain receipts and tax expenditures TM 36802Aphrodites kome (?) (Antaiopolites)VI Century AD
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Fragment of a financial account in two columns recording quantities of wheat, barley and vegetables in modii, with deductions for differences between measures, and sums in solidi and carats. The second column lists grain receipts of a 9th indiction and expenditures on public taxes for Ibion and Pouchis, mentioning the pagarch Makarios and the village headman Herakleios. It belongs to the archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito, 6th century AD.
In English machine translation
[Column 1]
[…]510 (?) modii 2,097, from which deducted for difference of measures
[…]16 2/3, making 340 1/2; remainder of wheat 1,747 1/2 modii
[…]337 1/2 1/3, from which deducted for difference of measures
[…]16 2/3, making 56 (?); remainder of barley 281 2/3 modii
[…]141 1/2, from which deducted for difference of measures
[…]16 2/3, making 23 1/2; remainder of vegetables 118 modii
[…] 46 (?) solidi, 5 1/2 carats less 11
[…] 1 solidus [less] 4
[…] 46 solidi, 5 1/2 carats less 11
[…] estate […] from Petros son of Paulos, from the defensores (?)
[…] 10 1/2 arouras of the […] wheat 40, 510 modii […] making measure […]
[…] deducted for difference of measures […] 16 2/3
[…] remainder of wheat 52 1/2 modii
[…] wheat 1,747 1/2 modii
[…] 281 2/3 modii
[…] 118 modii
[…] 46 [solidi], 5 1/2 carats less 11
[Column 2]
Receipts of wheat […]
from the collections of the same 9th indiction […]
and for the estate purchased from […]
and from the remainder of the account […]
Total receipts together […]
From which were spent […]
public taxes of the 9th indiction […]
to the account of the public taxes of Ibion […]
of the nome, for the share of […]
Makarios the pagarch […]
of the canon 257 […]
and for the account of 100 […] of the […]
and for the grain allowance and shipping of the […]
and to the account of the public taxes of Pouchis […]
10 1/2 (?) modii, with the surcharge […]
of Herakleios the protokometes […]
of the canon 41 2/3
The canon (kanon) was the regular annual tax assessment; deductions 'for difference of measures' adjust for differing measuring standards. Many figures are uncertain because line beginnings are lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Au recto, fragment). 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.1.67055
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