OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

7.5 x 10.3 cm.

Lines:

11

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

Light brown papyrus. Torn on the right hand side and at bottom, the top and left margins are both 1.5 cm.

Content

Date:

159/160 A.D.

Origin:

Theadelphia, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Tax receipt

Content:

Receipt for a Skylax for having paid his taxes to the superintendent of taxes of confiscated land in Theadelphia.

Subjects:

Taxation Land tax Receipt

Named people:

Skylax Heron Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius Augustus, emperor

Named places:

Theadelpheia

English translation:

In the twenty-third year of Imperator Titus Aelius Adrianus Antoninus Pius Augustus on the 28 (of the month Thot?) ... Skylax paid to Heron and partners, superintendents of the produce of confiscated land in the village of Theadelphia drachmai .... towards what is left over of the 22nd year tax collection. In the month of Mesore, x.

Provenance:

Probably Theadelphia, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 117

Further Literature

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