Receipt for Tax Payment
Receipt for payment of a rent for a palm-grove
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41887
Receipt for rent of date palms paid to the collector of money taxes TM 41887Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt219/220 or 223/224 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt from Karanis recording that Sabinus son of Ischyras and his brother Sarapion paid 32 drachmas to Aurelius Serenus, collector of money taxes, as rent for date palms. It dates to year 3 of an early third-century reign, AD 219/220 or 223/224.
In English machine translation
Year 3. Paid to Aurelius Serenus, collector of money taxes of Karanis, on the account of Sabinus son of Ischyras and Sarapion his brother, for rent of date palms, thirty-two drachmas, total 32 drachmas.
The phoros phoinikon was a rent or charge on date-palm land collected among the money taxes. The regnal year 3 may belong to Elagabalus or Severus Alexander, hence the two possible dates.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Tax Payment). 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.1.126
ἔτους γ διέγραψεν Αὐρήλιος Σερῆνος πράκτωρ ἀργυρικῶν Καρανίδος εἰς λόγον Σαβίνου Ἰσχυρᾶ καὶ Σαραπίων ἀδελφὸς ὑπὲρ φόρου φοινίκων δραχμὰς τριάκοντα δύο, γίνονται δραχμαὶ λβ.