Receipt for Tax Payment in Kind
Receipt for chaff paid by Palemon
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9932
Receipt for a basket of chaff delivered by Palemon TM 9932Karanis (Arsinoites)304/305 A.D.
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A receipt on an ostracon recording that Palemon son of Ptollas delivered one basket of chaff as a payment in kind, credited to several regnal years. It was signed by Komon at Karanis in AD 304/305.
In English machine translation
Palemon son of Ptollas delivered for the 19th and 18th and 11th (years) one basket (sargane) of chaff.
I, Komon, have signed.
Year 21 and 13.
The double year '21 and 13' is a Tetrarchic dating formula (years of Diocletian/Maximian and of the Caesars), giving AD 304/305. A sargane is a woven basket used as a measure for chaff.
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.3.1011
παρήνεγκε Παλήμων Πτολλᾶ ὑπὲρ ιθ καὶ ιη καὶ ια ἀχύρου σαργάνην μίαν . Κόμων σεσημείωμαι. ἔτους κα καὶ ιγ.