Tax receipt
Receipt for payment of the monodesmia argyrikon
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41900
Receipt for monodesmia tax paid by the carpenter Satabous TM 41900UnknownIIIrd century A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording that Satabous, a carpenter, paid 8 drachmas on account toward the monodesmia tax in money on Phaophi 5 of a regnal year 2. It dates to the 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
For the monodesmia in money, year 2, Phaophi 5. Satabous, carpenter, has paid on account 8 drachmas, total 8 drachmas.
The monodesmia was a tax, apparently originally levied in bundles (of reeds or hay), here paid in money; its exact nature is debated.
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.
o.mich.1.14
μονοδεσμίας ἀργυρικῶν β ἔτους Φαῶφι ε διέγραψε Σαταβοῦς τέκτων ἐπὶ λόγου δραχμὰς ὀκτώ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ η.