One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9808
Receipt for instalments of the hay tax (monodesmia chortou) TM 9808Arsinoites3. Sept. 194
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Receipt issued by Saprion to the farmer Orsenouphis son of Horos for a series of instalment payments of the monodesmia tax on hay. The payments run from Mecheir of year 2 of the usurper Pescennius Niger into Thoth of year 3, in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 2 of Gaius Pescennius Niger Iustus Augustus, Mecheir 11.
Saprion to Orsenouphis son of Horos, farmer, greeting.
I have received from you for the monodesmia of hay of the same year, on account, 4 drachmas of silver, total 4 dr.; Pharmouthi 6, 28 obols, total 28 ob.; Pachon 10, 28 obols, total 28 ob.; Pauni 7, 4 drachmas, total 4; Year 3, Thoth 6, for the past year 2, 4 drachmas of silver, total 4 dr.
Monodesmia chortou was a levy on hay counted in bundles. The text is dated by the regnal years of Pescennius Niger, who briefly claimed the throne against Septimius Severus and was recognized in Egypt.
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 Monodesmia Chortou). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
bgu.15.2545
ἔτους δευτέρου Γαίου Πεσκεννίου Νίγερος Ἰούστου Σεβαστοῦ, Μεχεὶρ ια Σαπρίων Ὀρσενούφει Ὥρου γεωργῷ, χαίρειν. ἔσχον παρὰ σοῦ ὑπὲρ μονοδεσμίας χόρτου τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους ἐπὶ λόγου ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς τέσσαρας γίνονται δραχμαὶ δ, Φαρμοῦθι ϛ ὀβολοὺς εἴκοσι ὀκτώ, γίνονται ὀβολοὶ 28, Παχὼν ι …