Money Receipt
Receipt for payment of 1 talent for a slave
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41883
Receipt for payment of one talent for a home-bred slave TM 41883probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIst century B.C.
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A short ostracon receipt recording that Marres son of Diogenes paid the amount due, one talent, in connection with a home-bred slave. It dates to the 1st century BC and probably comes from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Marres son of Diogenes has paid for a home-bred slave (?) […] the amount due, 1 talent,
(total) one talent.
The term oikotrophe, rendered here as "home-bred slave", is uncertain, and the rest of line 2 is garbled or illegible. The payment may have been a tax or fee connected with such a slave.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Money 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.
o.mich.1.117
διαγέγραφε Μαρρῆς Διογένους εἰς οἰκοτροφὴν ερη οἰκον… τὸ καθῆκον τάλαντον α, τάλαντον.