Receipt for Tax Payment
Receipt for payment of the annona
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41891
Receipt for payment toward the annona of Karanis TM 41891Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptFebruary/March 283 or 285 A.D.[?]
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An ostracon receipt recording that Neilos son of Ptollas and his son Satabous paid 16 drachmas toward the annona (a state levy in kind, here paid in cash) of year 1 for the village of Karanis. It dates to Phamenoth of a regnal year 1, probably AD 283 or 285.
In English machine translation
Year 1, Phamenoth. Neilos son of Ptollas and Satabous his son have paid for the annona of year 1 of the village of Karanis 16 drachmas, total 16 drachmas.
The annona was a state levy originally collected in kind for supplying the army and officials; here it is paid in money. The regnal year 1 is not tied to a named emperor, hence the uncertain date.
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.1.131
ἔτους α Φαμενὼθ διέγραψαν Νεῖλος Πτολλᾶ καὶ Σαταβοῦς υἱὸς ὑπὲρ ἀννώνης α ἔτους κώμης Καρανίδος δραχμὰς δεκαέξ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ ιϛ.