Receipt for Delivery in Kind
Receipt for chaff of Karanis brought by Heron, for Chairemon, to an unknown harbor
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Receipt for chaff delivered for the public dues of Karanis TM 41977unknown harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of EgyptAugust 4, 342 A.D.
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Receipt recording that Chairemon, through his agent Heron, delivered 120 litras of chaff toward the public taxes of the village of Karanis for the sixteenth indiction. It is signed by Ision and dated Mesore 11, corresponding to 4 August 342.
In English machine translation
Mesore 11
Chairemon has delivered, through Heron, on account of the public dues of Karanis, for the sixteenth indiction, one hundred twenty litras of chaff,
120 litras, only.
I, Ision, have signed.
Chaff (achyron) was collected as a tax in kind, often for fuel or army use; the litra is a Roman pound of about 327 g.
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 Delivery in Kind). 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.1.214
Μεσορὴ ια παρήνεγκε Χαιρήμων διὰ Ἥρωνος ὑπὲρ δημοσίων Καρανίδος ὑπὲρ ἑκκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος ἀχύρου λίτρας ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι, λίτραι ρκ, μόνας. Ἰσίων σεσημείωμαι.