OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

P.Oslo inv. 1026

Size:

16.4 x 16 cm.

Lines:

9

Publication side:

Recto; the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

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State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

September 18, 57 A.D.

Origin:

Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Unknown tax collector

Title / Type of text:

Statement of arrears

Content:

The document concerns arrears of taxes from the Arsinoite nome and is regarded as the lower part of P.Oslo 1026.

Subjects:

Taxation Tax collection Arrears List

Named people:

Didymus Thsaphibis Harpalus Harmiysis, son of Harmiysis Psosneus, son of Petenou( ) Heraclas, son of Centaurus Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, emperor

Named places:

Oxyrhynchus

English translation:

Didymus ..., Thsaphibis, ... of Harpalus ..., Harmiysis, son of Harmiysis ..., Psosneus alias ..., Psosneus son of Petenou( ), for poll-tax 45 drachmas 3 obols, for dike-tax 6 drachmas 4 obols. Heraclas, son of Centaurus, for poll-tax 45 drachmas 3 obols, for dike-tax 6 drachmas 4 obols. The same person for the city of Oxyrhynchus for poll-tax 16 drachmas, for dike-tax 13 drachmas 2 obols. The fourth year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, the 21st of the month Sebastos.

Provenance:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from M. Nahman, Cairo, Feb. 28, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 52, 1977, 97-102
  SB: XIV 12018
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Sijpesteijn PJ, ZPE 55 (1984) p. 157-158

Further Literature

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