Receipt for Tax Payment in Kind
Receipt for chaff paid by a Palemon
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9929
Receipt for chaff delivered by Palemon son of Ptollas TM 9929Karanis (Arsinoites)December, 301 A.D./January, 302 A.D.
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Ostracon receipt recording that Palemon son of Ptollas delivered 150 pounds of chaff as a tax in kind for the village of Karanis. It is signed by Philippos and dated to the month Tybi of the regnal years 18, 17 and 10 of the Tetrarchs, AD 301/302.
In English machine translation
Palemon son of Ptollas delivered, for the 4th assessment of the village of Karanis with its boundary district(?), 150 pounds of chaff. I, Philippos, have signed.
Year 18 and 17 and 10, Tybi.
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Epigraphe is a tax assessment levied in kind; horiodeiktia refers to the boundary-defined territory of the village. The triple regnal year reflects the joint reigns of Diocletian, Maximian and the Caesars.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt. 2. Chaff). 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.3.1009
παρήνεγκεν Παλήμων Πτολλᾶ δ ἐπιγραφῆς κώμης ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος ἀχύρου λίτρας ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα . Φίλιππος σεσημείωμαι. ἔτους ιη καὶ ιζ καὶ ι Τῦβι. […]…