OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

9.1 x 27.7 cm.

Lines:

20

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

The papyrus is complete on all sides, but the bottom is torn and abraded. Throughout there are areas of ink abraded from an apparently perfect surface.

Content

Date:

Probably 340/1 or 355/6 A.D.

Origin:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Account of grain

Content:

Account listing amounts in grain after names of persons, under the heading, ""Heirs of Antiourios, grain of the 14th district"".

Subjects:

Account List Tax collection?

Named people:

Antiourios Atisios Kollouthes Tito...Ptolemaios Arabikos Heron, son of Aion Ptollas Sarapis (?)

Named places:

–

English translation:

Heirs of Antiourios: Grain of the 14th indiction.In the name of Atisios, art. 44. [In the name] of Kollouthes, art. 6 1/3. [In the name] of Tito..., art. 3. Ptolemaios, art. 2. In the name of Arabikos, art. 10 1/2. In the name of Heron son of Aion, art. 14 1/6. [In the name] of Ptollas, art. 3 1/12. Sarapis (?), art. 12 1/3 for unproductive land (?), art. 11 1/6, for keph( ), art. 1 1/2, 1/3, 1/12. Total, art. 108 1/2. (remainder is fragmentary)

Provenance:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, 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

• Bagnall R, P.Col. VII, 1979, 135a), picture: Microfiche in publication
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Pietersma A, The Second Century 3 (1983) p. 120 (l. 5)

Further Literature

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