Tax receipt
Receipt for tax payment
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41865
Receipt for monodesmia tax on hay paid to Aurelius Ptollas TM 41865UnknownSeptember/October 215 A.D. July/August 216 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording that Tourbon paid instalments of the monodesmia tax on hay to the collector Aurelius Ptollas: 4 drachmas in Phaophi and 16 drachmas in Mesore. It is dated to year 24 of Caracalla (Severus Antoninus), AD 215/216.
In English machine translation
Year 24 of Severus Antoninus.
For the account of Phaophi, Tourbon paid to Aurelius Ptollas, collector of the monodesmia of hay, on account, 4 drachmas, total 4 dr.
Mesore, 16 drachmas, total 16 dr.
The monodesmia (literally 'single bundling') was a tax or levy on hay, here paid in money. 'Tourbon' is read as the payer's name, though the ending could also be taken as a genitive plural.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Tax receipt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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ἔτους κδ Σεουήρου Ἀντωνίνου ἀριθμήσεως Φαῶφι διέγραψε Αὐρηλίῳ Πτολλᾷ πράκτορι μονοδεσμίας χόρτου Τούρβων ἐπὶ λόγου δραχμὰς τέσσαρας, γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ. Μεσωρὴ δραχμὰς δεκαέξ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ ιϛ.