OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

8 x 12 cm.

Lines:

15

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

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State of preservation:

The medium brown papyrus is complete, regularly cut on the top and both sides, some of the left bottom part is missing. No right margin, the top and left margin is 1 cm., what is left of the bottom one is 2 to 2 1/2 cm.

Content

Date:

May 25, 144 A.D.

Origin:

Apias, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Ammonis, praktor argyrikon

Title / Type of text:

Tax receipt

Content:

Receipt for tax payment.

Subjects:

Receipt Tax collection, Tax payment

Named people:

Ammonis, praktor argyrikon Ptolemaios, son of Didymos Akous, georgos Antoninus Caesar, emperor

Named places:

Apias

English translation:

Ammonis and partners, tax collectors of Apias, greet Ptolemaios, son of Didymos through the peasant Akous. We have (received) from you on account of the payment of the seventh year tax collection of Apias, eighteen silver drachmai, total 18 drachmai. The same (person) paid for the naubion tax thirteen copper obols, total 13 obols. For these (two payments) we will bring you a treasury receipt which you will get by producing this handwritten note. In the seventh year of our Lord Antoninus Caesar, May 25.

Provenance:

Arsinoite 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, 116

Further Literature

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