OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

13.8 x 24.3 cm.

Lines:

8

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The text, which is complete, is written in a small, cramped cursive and runs parallell to the fibres.

State of preservation:

A light brown papyrus; the left margin is 3 cm, the right 1/2 cm, the top margin is 2 cm and the bottom one 13 cm.

Content

Date:

January 25, 30 A.D.

Origin:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Antinoos & Antiochos, trapezitai

Title / Type of text:

Receipt for money taxes

Content:

Receipt recording payments through a bank for the epikephalaion, amounting to 12 drachmas per person, for pig tax and dike tax.

Subjects:

Receipt Taxation (persons)

Named people:

Tiberius Caesar Augustus, emperor Zoilos, son of Syros Antinoos, trapezites Antiochos, trapezites

Named places:

Hermaion (amphodon of Oxyrhynchos)

English translation:

The sixteenth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus on the thirtieth of Tybi. Zoilos, son of Syros, has paid through Antinoos and Antiochos, bankers, for the poll-tax of the Hermaion quarter for the thirteenth year twelve drachmas, total 12. For the pig tax likewise for the thirteenth year the same (has paid) two drachmas one and a half obol, total 2 dr. 1 1/2 obol. For the dike tax likewise for the thirteenth year the same (has paid) six drachmas and four obols, total 6 dr. and 4 ob. For the poll tax for the fourteenth year the same (has paid) in all twelve drachmas, total 12. For the pig tax for the fourteenth year the same two drachmas one and a half obol total 2 dr 1 1/2 ob. For the dike tax for the fourteenth year the same six drachmas and four obols, total 6 dr. 4 ob.

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased from M.Nahman, Cairo, Sept. 1934

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Forselv IL, SO 65, 1990, 131-137, picture: p. 137
  SB: XX 14665

Further Literature

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