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Instalment receipts for crown tax paid at Karanis TM 9183Karanis (Arsinoites)25. Juli - 28. Aug. 221

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A running series of receipts in which Aurelius Isidoros, of unknown father, records instalment payments of 4 drachmas each to Aurelius Ptolemaios, collector of the crown tax at Karanis. The payments span regnal years 4 and 5 of Elagabalus and continue into year 2 of Severus Alexander (AD 220-222).

In English machine translation

[column 1] Year 4 of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Felix Pius Augustus, Choiak 8. I, Aurelius Isidoros, fatherless, have paid to Aurelius Ptolemaios, collector of crown taxes of Karanis, four drachmas, 4 dr. Tybi 7, [...] drachmas [... 6 lines lost ...] another four drachmas, 4 dr. Likewise another [...] drachmas Epeiph 28, another four drachmas, 4 dr. Mesore, four, 4 dr. Year 5 of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix and Marcus Aurelius Alexander Caesar, Augusti. I, Aurelius Isidoros, fatherless, have paid to Aurelius Ptolemaios, collector of crown taxes of Karanis, four drachmas, 4 dr. [column 2] Likewise [...] Thoth 1, another four drachmas, 4 dr. Hathyr 29, another four drachmas, 4 dr. Choiak 5, another four drachmas, 4 dr. Choiak [...], another four drachmas, 4 dr. [...] another four drachmas, 4 dr. [... 3 lines lost ...] [...] another four drachmas, 4 dr. Year 2, Thoth 5, another four drachmas, 4 dr.

The crown tax (stephanikon) was originally a gift of crowns to the ruler and became a regular levy. Year 5 names Elagabalus jointly with his Caesar Severus Alexander, and the final entry is dated by Alexander's own year 2 (2 September 222).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. Juli - 28. Aug. 221 · Karanis (Arsinoites)

[1] ἔτους δ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Εὐτυχοῦς Εὐσεβοῦς Σεβαστοῦ Χυὰκ η. διέγραψα Αὐρηλίῳ Πτολεμαίῳ πράκτορι στεφανικῶν Καρανίδος Αὐρήλιος Εἰσίδωρος ἀπάτωρ δραχμὰς τέσσαρας, δραχμὰς δ. Τῦβι ζ δραχμὰς [… 6 lines lost …] ἄλλας δραχμὰς τέσσαρας, δραχμὰς δ. ὁμοίως ἄλλας δραχμὰς […] Ἐ…