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Receipt for taxes on garden land paid to the money-tax collectors of Karanis TM 9787Karanis (Arsinoites)179 - 180

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A receipt from Karanis in the Fayum recording payments to the collectors of money taxes for taxes on vineyard or garden land, including the apomoira, naubion, eparourion and geometria, with their customary surcharges. It dates to the 20th year of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, AD 179-180.

In English machine translation

[Year 20 of Aurelii Antoninus and Luc]ius Commodus [Antoninus, the Caesars, the lords,] […] [paid] […] [and] [part]ners, collectors of money taxes of Karanis […] [for vineyard,] for the 19th year, for the apomoira [3 drachmas 2 1/2 obols, total 3 drachmas 2 1/2 obols], [for naubion 1 obol, extra charges 4 obols 2 chalkoi, for eparourion] 2 drachmas 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi, total 2 drachmas 1 [1/2 obols (?) 2 chalkoi, extra charges 1 obol, exchange fee 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi], [for geometria of the 20th year 8 drachmas], total 8 drachmas, extra charges 3 obols, for naubion of the katoikoi […] [extra charges] […] [exchange fee] […]. [The same, through the same,] […] [of the] 20th year 5 obols, extra charges 1 obol, exchange fee [2 chalkoi] […] […] [of the 21st year] 4 drachmas 1/2 obol, total [4 drachmas 1/2 obol, extra charges] […]

Apomoira, naubion, eparourion and geometria are Egyptian land taxes with no exact English equivalents; the extra charges (prosdiagraphomena) and kollybos were surcharges and exchange fees. Much of the text is restored from parallel receipts.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt for Garden Taxes). 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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bgu.15.2524

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 179 - 180 · Karanis (Arsinoites)

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