Receipt for money tax
Receipt for tax payment by a Palemon in the name of a Chairemon
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9925
Receipt for 42 drachmas paid by Chairemon through Palemon TM 9925probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptJuly 19, 292 A.D.
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An ostracon receipt recording that Chairemon son of Ptollas paid 42 drachmas, through an agent named Palemon, for a payment described as "Arabian". It is dated 19 July 292 and comes probably from Karanis in the Fayum, and was issued by an Artemidoros.
In English machine translation
Year 8 and Year 7, Epeiph 25.
Chairemon son of Ptollas has paid for the Arabian (tax?) through Palemon […] forty-two drachmas,
total 42 drachmas, only. Artemidoros […]
The double regnal year (8 and 7) reflects the joint reign of Diocletian and Maximian. The word "Arabikou" probably refers to a tax or district called "Arabian"; its exact sense is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt. 10. Mutilated). 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.3.1001
η ἔτους καὶ ζ ἔτους Ἐπεὶφ κε διέγραψε Χαιρήμων Πτολλᾶ Ἀραβικοῦ διὰ Παλήμονος …[…] δραχμὰς τεσσεράκοντα δύο, γίνονται δραχμαὶ μβ, μόνας. Ἀρτεμίδωρος …[…]