Receipt for Tax Payment in Kind
Receipt for chaff paid by Panisatis
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9933
Receipt for a basket of chaff delivered for Memphis and Babylon TM 9933Karanis (Arsinoites)March 5, 305[?] A.D.
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An ostracon receipt in which three overseers of chaff for Memphis and Babylon acknowledge that Panisatis son of Aunes delivered one basket of chaff on behalf of the village of Karanis. The payment counts for the 20th and 12th regnal years and is dated Phamenoth 9, probably 5 March 305.
In English machine translation
The Aurelii Ammonios and Petobastios and Ptolemaios, overseers of chaff for Memphis and Babylon.
Panisatis son of Aunes delivered on behalf of Karanis one basket, 1, for the 20th year and the 12th year. Phamenoth 9.
The double year (20th and 12th) points to the joint reigns of the Tetrarchs, giving the doubtful date of AD 305. Chaff was collected as a tax in kind, probably for military or state use at Memphis and Babylon.
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.3.1012
Αὐρήλιοι Ἀμμώνιος καὶ Πετοβάστιος καὶ Πτολεμαῖος ἐπιμεληταὶ ἀχύρου Μέμφεως καὶ Βαβυλῶνος. παρήνεγκε Πανισάτις Αὐνῆ ὑπὲρ Καρανίδος σαργάνην μίαν, α, ὑπὲρ κ ἔτους καὶ ιβ ἔτους. Φαμενὼθ θ.