Receipt of tax payment in kind
Tax receipt for wine paid by Ptollas for the annona
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 42680
Receipt for wine paid toward the annona at Karanis TM 42680Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptNovember 19, 296 A.D.
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A receipt recording that Ptolas son of Sokrates paid, through an agent Arabikos, 15 sextarii of wine for the annona levy at Karanis, along with freight and a further small charge. It is dated in the second year of the usurper Lucius Domitius Domitianus and signed by Dioskoros.
In English machine translation
Year 2 of our lord Lucius Domitius Domitianus Augustus, Hathyr 23.
Ptolas son of Sokrates has paid, through Arabikos, for the voted annona of the new assessment of the boundary-survey (?) of Karanis, 15 sextarii of wine, total 15 sextarii, and the freight charges on these, and for the monthly racking (?), for the month 1 1/2.
I, Dioskoros, have signed.
Domitius Domitianus was a short-lived usurper in Egypt, so his regnal year dates the text closely. The terms horiodeiktia (boundary marking) and aphylismos (perhaps a charge connected with racking or decanting wine) are obscure and the translation of them is tentative.
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.2.802
ἔτους δευτέρου τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Λουκίου Δομιττίου Δομιττιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Ἁθὺρ κγ διέγραψε Πτολᾶς Σωκράτους διὰ Ἀραβικοῦ ὑπὲρ τῆς ψηφισθείσης ἀννώνης νέας ἐπιγραφῆς ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος οἴνου ξέστας δεκαπέντε, γίνονται ξέσται ιε, καὶ τούτων τὰ ναῦλα, καὶ μηνιαίου ἀφυλισμοῦ μηνιαῖον…