p.heid.11.494
[r] δέδωκεν ὀνόματος Λάμων Σαραπίωνος διὰ Καλλινίκου εἰς λόγον δημοσίων ἀννωνῶν ὀγδόης ἰνδικτίωνος χρυσοῦ κεράτια ἓν ἥμισυ γίνεται κεράτια α 𐅵. † …[…]…[…]… διαστολεὺς συμφωνῶ. [v] Λάμων Σαραπίωνος […] †
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 957778
Receipt for gold paid toward annona taxes by Lamon son of Sarapion TM 957778HermopolitesAnfang VII
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A payment receipt recording that Lamon son of Sarapion paid, through Kallinikos, one and a half carats of gold toward the public annona taxes of the eighth indiction. It was countersigned by a tax official (diastoleus) and comes from the Hermopolite nome in the early 7th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
There has paid, in the name of Lamon son of Sarapion, through Kallinikos, on account of public annona taxes of the eighth indiction, of gold one and a half carats,
making 1 1/2 carats. † […] […] […], diastoleus, I agree.
[verso]
Lamon son of Sarapion […] †
The diastoleus was a fiscal official who checked and registered tax payments; his name is lost. A carat (keration) was a small fraction of the gold solidus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Buchungsbescheinigung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.