Receipt of tax payment in kind
Receipt for chaff of Karanis brought by Priscus to the collectors of Babylon
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Receipt for chaff delivered from Karanis to the overseers at Babylon TM 42657unknown harbor, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of EgyptJune 13, 304[?] A.D.
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Ostracon receipt in which two overseers of chaff at Babylon acknowledge that Priskos delivered one basket of chaff on behalf of the village of Karanis. It concerns regnal years 19, 18 and 11 and is dated Pauni 19, probably 13 June 304.
In English machine translation
Aurelii Apollonios and Ptolemaios, overseers of chaff of Babylon. Priskos has delivered on behalf of Karanis 1 basket (sargane) of chaff for year 19 and year 18 and year 11. Pauni 19.
The years 19, 18 and 11 fit the joint dating of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars, hence the uncertain date of 304. A sargane is a woven basket used as a measure for chaff.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt of tax payment 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.
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Αὐρήλιοι Ἀπολλώνιος καὶ Πτολεμαῖος ἐπιμεληταὶ ἀχύρου Βαβυλῶνος. παρήνεγκεν Πρίσκος ὑπὲρ Καρανίδος ἀχύρου σαργάνην μίαν ὑπὲρ ιθ ἔτους καὶ ιη ἔτους καὶ ια. Παῦνι ιθ.