OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

16.5 x 24.7 cm.

Lines:

14

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

Written in 4 hands. The first, very cursive hand with numerous abbreviations, is not always easy to decipher

State of preservation:

Light brown papyrus. Top margin 2 cm, left margin 2.5 cm, the bottom 7 cm are blank. Cut at the right side.

Content

Date:

November 11, 319 A.D.

Origin:

Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Receipt for the clothes tax

Content:

Receipt to the inhabitants of a settlement in the Oxyrhynchite nome for having delivered wool and palm fibers to the Roman army.

Subjects:

Receipt Tax Clothes Palms

Named people:

Aurelius Sarapion Theon Heras

Named places:

Petrok... Oxyrhynchite nome

English translation:

The inhabitants in the settlement Petrok(...) in the eighth pagus of the Oxyrhynchite have delivered to (the storeroom?) of the village (...) through the tax collector Kh(...) and his partners the following as clothes tax in the 7. indiction: 5 and 1/12 (litrai wool for) dalmatian cloaks as the tax fixed for royal land, in total 5 and 1/12 litrai. In the 14., 12. and 4. year, on the 5th of the month Thoth.(2. hand): I, Aurelius Sarapion, tax accountable, have confirmed (that they have delivered) 5 and 1/12 litrai wool for dalmatian cloaks.(3. hand): The inhabitants of the settlement Petrok(...) have delivered the following in the 7. indiction: for things made from fibres of the palm leaves, for tesserarii, (...) for dalmatian cloaks and coats for privatarios.(4.hand): in the 14., 12. and 4. year, on the 14th of the month Hathyr. The chief Theon has confirmed this through me, Heras the assistant.

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased 1923 through British Museum, with M. Nahman as the dealer. Cf. the reports and the inventory list by H. I. Bell

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 119, picture: Pl. IX
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Youtie HC, ZPE 38 (1980) p. 291 (l.3)

Further Literature

Lallemand J, L'administration civile de l'Egypt (1964), p.182-3 (note 4)