bgu.2.679
† Φαμενὼθ κϛ η ἰνδικτίωνος Μηνᾶς λαχανοπώλης ἀπὸ διαγραφῆς λαύρας Παρεμβολῆς ὑπὲρ δευτέρου κανόνος κεράτια ἑπτὰ τέταρτον κεράτια ζ δ †
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 39048
Tax receipt of Menas the vegetable-seller for the Parembole quarter TM 39048unbekanntVII - VIII
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A short tax receipt recording that Menas, a vegetable-seller, paid 7 1/4 keratia toward the second instalment of the tax assessed on the Parembole quarter. It is dated Phamenoth 26 of an eighth indiction, in the 7th or 8th century AD.
In English machine translation
† Phamenoth 26, 8th indiction. Menas, vegetable-seller,
from the assessment of the quarter (laura) of Parembole,
for the second instalment (kanon): seven and a quarter keratia,
7 1/4 keratia. †
A laura here is a street or quarter of a town, and kanon refers to a regular tax instalment; keratia are small fractions of the gold solidus. Parembole is a quarter name known from the Arsinoite metropolis, though no provenance is recorded.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.