Tax Receipt
Receipt for tax payments by several taxpayers
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42492
Receipt for monthly tax installments paid on behalf of Horos TM 42492UnknownIInd century or IIIrd century A.D.
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An ostracon recording a series of monthly tax payments in drachmas, made by Pamonthis son of Papeis and by Horos son of Ptolemaios, partly on behalf of Horos and once for a certain Hieron. Some entries are signed by the official Agathos Daimon. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
And in year 15, Pharmouthi 23, for the installment (?) of Phamenoth, Pamonthis son of Papeis paid on behalf of Horos son of Ptol(emaios) fifty-six drachmas, total 56. I, Agathos Daimon, have signed.
And on Pachon, for the installment of Pharmouthi, Pamonthis paid fifty-six drachmas, total 56, on behalf of Horos son of Ptol(emaios) […]. I, Agathos Daimon, have signed.
And on Pauni 11, for the installment of Pachon, Horos paid twenty-eight drachmas, total 28, and on behalf of Hieron eighteen drachmas, total 18.
And on Epeiph 10, for the installment of Pauni, he paid on behalf of Horos son of Ptol(emaios) another thirty-six drachmas, total 36.
And on Mesore […], for the installment of Epeiph, Horos son of Ptol(emaios) paid […]
And in year 16, Thoth […], for the installment of Mesore […], […] paid […]
The term rendered "installment" (arithmesis) refers to the monthly accounting period for which each payment was credited; 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 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.1.8
καὶ ιε ἔτους Φαρμοῦθι κγ ἀριθμήσεως Φαμενὼθ διέγραψε Παμῶνθις Παπέιτος ὑπὲρ Ὥρου Πτολ δραχμὰς πεντήκοντα ἕξ, γίνονται εϛ. Ἀγαθὸς Δαίμων σεσημείωμαι. καὶ Παχὼν ἀριθμήσεως Φαρμοῦθι διέγραψε Παμῶνθις δραχμὰς πεντήκοντα ἕξ, γίνονται εϛ, ὑπὲρ Ὥρου Πτολ …α……Ἀγαθὸς Δαίμων σεσημείωμαι. κ…