Tax receipt
Receipt for payment of the monodesmia argyrikon
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 41908
Receipt for payment of the monodesmia tax in money TM 41908UnknownIIIrd century A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording that Orsenouphis son of Pkylis paid 4 drachmas on account toward the monodesmia tax in money, on Pachon 10 of year 2. It dates to the 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
For the monodesmia in money, year 2, Pachon 10. Orsenouphis son of Pkylis has paid on account 4 drachmas, total 4 drachmas.
The monodesmia was a tax, apparently levied on bundles (of hay or reeds), here paid in money rather than in kind; its exact nature is uncertain. The scribe wrote the first syllable of Pachon twice.
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.1.15
μονοδεσμίας ἀργυρικῶν β ἔτους Παχὼν ι διέγραψεν Ὀρσενοῦβις Πκυλίου ἐπὶ λόγου δραχμὰς τέσσαρας, γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ.