OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

25.2 x 26.3 cm.

Lines:

28

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

Written in two columns.

State of preservation:

Light brown papyrus, complete at top and both sides. The bottom is damaged, but the original edge may be preserved in places.

Content

Date:

ca. 350-365 A.D.

Origin:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Aion, son of Sarapion

Title / Type of text:

Accounts of money payments

Content:

The text lists payments made, presumably for some tax, by Aion son of Sarapion.

Subjects:

Tax payment Account

Named people:

Aion, son of Sarapion Elias Heras, son of Sarapion Sokrates Leein Amatas Atolas Tamaleis Atisis Termouthion Nilammon Kollouthes Tapaeis Titoueis Pankratis Heron, son of Hol

Named places:

–

English translation:

Column I:Through Aion son of SarapionElias tal. 6,550Aion son of Sarapion tal. 45,200Heras son of Sarapion tal. 8,300Sokrates tal. 24,600Leein tal. 1,600Amatas tal. 19,500 (cancelled)Atolas tal. 400 Total, tal. 106,250 tal. 86,650Aion son of Sarapion, receiverAion [ ]Tamaleis [ ]Atisis [ ]Heras son of Sarapion tal. 780Termou[thion tal.] 6,400Nilammon tal. 30,100.Column II:In the name of Kollouthes,through Tapaeis tal. 9,300And for the name of Heras tal. 1,250Likewise Tapaeis for the two names tal. 10,600Receipts of Aion son of Sarapion:Titoueis tal. 50,850Pankratis tal. 14,216Heras son of Sarapion tal. 5,400Heras son of Hol tal. 3,700Total tal. 70,500. Another tal. 3,700.

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, 126, picture: Microfiche in publication

Further Literature

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