Receipt of tax payment in kind
Receipt for chaff of Karanis brought by a Ptol---
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Receipt for chaff delivered by a villager of Keranis TM 42664unnamed place, Herakleopolite or Memphite nome, province of EgyptAugust 6, 337 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording that Ptol…, son of Akyllas, from the village of Keranis, delivered 240 pounds of chaff as a tax in kind for the tenth indiction. It is signed by Souchidas and dated Mesore 13, corresponding to 6 August 337.
In English machine translation
Mesore 13.
Ptol… son of Akyllas, of the village of Keranis, has delivered for the tenth indiction two hundred forty pounds of chaff,
240 pounds. Souchidas.
The village name Keranis is read by one description as Karanis, but the text has Keranidos. Chaff (achyron) was collected in kind, often as fuel for heating public baths or for use in brickmaking.
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.
o.mich.2.786
Μεσορὴ ιγ παρήνεγκεν Πτολ… Ἀκύλλου κώμης Κερανίδος ὑπὲρ δεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος ἀχύρου λίτρας διακοσίας τεσσαράκοντα, λίτρας σμ. Σουχιδᾶς.