OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

11 x 10.4 cm.

Lines:

6

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus. The papyrus is complete. Top and left margin (partly broken) 1.5 cm., bottom margin (partly broken) 5 cm.

Content

Date:

IIIrd (?) century A.D.

Origin:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Heron, praktor;Eudaimon, praktor

Title / Type of text:

Receipt for transport tax

Content:

Receipt to Kapeis, son of Kronion,for paid transport tax.

Subjects:

Receipt Taxation Transport

Named people:

Kapeis, son of Kronion Heron, praktor Eudaimon, praktor

Named places:

Tebtynis

English translation:

Third year, Epeiph 18, Kapeis, son of Cronion, has paid to Heron and Eudaimon, practors, 8 drachmas for transport tax in the village of Tebtunis. Mesore 20, the same (paid) 8 more drachmas.

Provenance:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from M. Nahman, Cairo, Feb. 18, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 49, 1973, 52-54
  SB: XIV 11433

Further Literature

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