OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

21 x 24 cm.

Lines:

16+14

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The text is written on a medium brown papyrus in two sections along the same column. In the first section five different hands can be discerned, the second is written in one hand throughout in a more cramped and tight cursive style. The text is written along the fibres.

State of preservation:

The document is nearly complete; the lower left corner is missing, and a big rift, 2 cm. (at the widest) by 6 cm. runs along the left part of the lower column, to the left of a kollesis (overlap). In the lower column there are also three rifts in the upper middle part, and a vertical rift measuring 1-2 cm.(at the widest) by 2.4 cm. runs through five lines in the right upper part. The margins are: to the left, 4 cm., to the right, 1.5 cm., the upper one is 2 cm., and the lower 5.5 cm. The two sections are separated by a space of 1 cm.

Content

Date:

After September 15, 151 A.D.

Origin:

Soknopaiou Nesos, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Hereus, son of Harpagathes and Tanouphis

Title / Type of text:

Receipt for payments of syntaximon and merismoi

Content:

The receipt records payments for syntaximon and various other taxes (merismoi) by Hereus, son of Harpagathes and Tanouphis, from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome, in the 13th,14th, and 15th year of the reign of Antoninus Pius.

Subjects:

Receipt Taxes

Named people:

Hereus, son of Harpagathes and Tanouphis Harpagathes, father of Hereus Tanouphis, mother of Hereus Apynchis, tax collector at Soknopaiou Nesos Charmion, tax collector at Soknopaiou Nesos Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, emperor

Named places:

Soknopaiou Nesos

English translation:

Section 1:In the thirteenth year of the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius: on the 27th of Phaophi, Hereus, son of Harpagathes, son of Hereus, his mother being Tanouphis, has paid through Charmion and his fellow tax collectors at Soknopaiou Nesos for the syntaximon of the same year eight drachmae, total 8. And on the 24th of Hathyr likewise (has paid) another four drachmae, total 4. On the 27th of the month Hadrianus likewise (has paid) four drachmae, (total) 4. On the 28th of Tybi likewise 8 drachmae, (total) 8. On the 25th of Mecheir likewise another eight drachmae, total 8 drachmae. On the twenty sixth of Phamenoth likewise another four drachmae, total 4 drachmae. On the twenty first of Pachon likewise for the support of the guards two drachmae and three and a half obols, total 2 dr. 3 1/2 obols. For the river guard one obol. On the twenty second of Payni likewise another eight drachmae, half of an obol and two chalkoi, total 8 dr., 1/2 obol, 2 chalkoi. For support of the watchtower guards 4 1/2 obols. For the support of the prison guards 1 obol. For the billeting of soldiers 1 obol. For the animal tax 1/2 obol and 2 chalkoi.On the 28th of Epeiph likewise for the support of the poor eight drachmae, total 8 dr. On the 21st of Mesore likewise for the tax for the support of the poor another four drachmae, total 4 dr. On the 30th of Mesore likewise another three drachmae and three obols, total 3 dr. and 3 obols. For the support of the guards another one drachma and five obols, total 1 dr. and 5 obols.Section 2:In the fourteenth year: on the 13th of Phaophi, the same (person) has paid through Apynchis and his fellow tax collectors from Soknopaiou Nesos for the syntaximon for the same year twelve drachmae, total 12 dr. On the 7th of Hathyr likewise another four drachmae, total 4 dr. On the 3rd of Hadrianus likewise another four drachmae, total 4 dr. Likewise another four drachmae, total 4 dr. On the 3rd of Tybi likwise another 4 drachmae, total 4 dr. On the 25th of Mecheir likewise another four drachmae, total 4 dr.On the 26th of Phamenoth four drachmae, total 4 dr. On the 24th of Pharmouti likewise another four drachmae, total 4 dr. On the 20th of Pachon likewise 1/2 obol and two chalkoi. For the support of the guards two drachmae and four obols, total 2 dr., 4 obols. For the watchtower guard three obols. On the 26th of Payni likewise another (four drachmae), total 4 dr. For the support of the guards ( ). For the support of the watchtower guard one obol. For the river guard 2 1/2 obols and 2 chalkoi. For the prison guard one obol. For the billeting of soldiers one obol. For the animal tax one obol. For the support of the poor four drachmae, total 4 dr. For the fifteenth year: On the 17th of the month Thoth for the tax for the poor one obol. For (the tax for the) poor fifteen drachmae and three obols, total 15 dr. and 3 obols. For the guards one obol. For the poor two drachmae and four obols, total 2 dr. and 4 ob.

Provenance:

Soknopaiou Nesos, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by S. Eitrem in Cairo from Maurice Nahman in March 1936

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Forselv I L, SO 71, 1996, 156-175, picture: p. 162-163
  SB: XXIV 16185
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Kramer B, APF 48 (2002) p. 341 (l.I 1, 11, 12, 15
  • II 6, 7-8)

Further Literature

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