Receipt for Tax Payment
Receipt for payment of an unnamed tax
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41893
Receipt for a payment of 8 drachmas by Harpalos son of Serenos TM 41893probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptIIIrd century A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that Harpalos son of Serenos paid 8 drachmas, probably for a tax that is not named. It was issued in Pharmouthi of a regnal year 10, credited to the account of the previous month Phamenoth, probably at Karanis in the 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
Year 10, Pharmouthi, for the account of Phamenoth.
Harpalos son of Serenos has paid 8 drachmas, total 8 drachmas.
The phrase 'for the account of Phamenoth' (arithmeseos) means the payment, made in Pharmouthi, was booked to the reckoning of the previous month. The tax itself is not named.
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.1.135
ἔτους ι Φαρμοῦθι ἀριθμήσεως Φαμενὼθ διέγραψεν Ἅρπαλος Σερήνου δραχμὰς ὀκτώ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ η.