Receipt of tax payment in kind
Tax receipt for wine paid by Serenus for the annona
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 9934
Receipt for wine paid for the annona by the veteran Serenos TM 9934Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptNovember 20, 296 A.D.
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A receipt recording that Serenos, a veteran, paid through Kallonios 4 sextarii of wine toward the annona (state levy in kind) of the new assessment for the district of Karanis, plus the transport costs. It is dated in year 2 of the usurper Lucius Domitius Domitianus, 20 November 297, at Karanis.
In English machine translation
Year 2 of our lord Lucius Domitius Domitianus Augustus, Hathyr 24.
Serenos, veteran, paid through Kallonios, for the voted annona of the new levy of the boundary district of Karanis, 4 sextarii of wine, total 4 sextarii. I, Dioskoros, have signed.
And the freight charges for these.
Domitius Domitianus was a usurper against Diocletian in Egypt; one record gives the date as 20 November 296. The annona was a levy in kind for state supply, and the 'horiodeiktia' is the territorial district of the village.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Receipt. 4. Wine). 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.3.1029
ἔτους δευτέρου τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Λουκίου Δομιττίου Δομιττιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Ἁθὺρ κδ διέγραψε Σερῆνος οὐετρανὸς διὰ Καλλωνίου ὑπὲρ τῆς ψηφισθείσης ἀννώνης νέας ἐπιγραφῆς ὁριοδεικτίας Καρανίδος οἴνου ξέστας τέσσαρας, γίνονται ξέσται δ. Διόσκορος σεσημείωμαι. καὶ τούτων τὰ ναῦλα.