OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

9.1 x 22.5 cm.

Lines:

28

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

The light brown papyrus is complete, regularly cut on all side. There is no margin on the right side, the left is 2-2 1/2 cm. for lines 1-24, for the rest, 1/2 cm. The top and bottom margins are 1 1/2 cm.

Content

Date:

217 A.D.

Origin:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Aurelius Achillas Ptolemaios

Title / Type of text:

Census return

Content:

Declaration of the family and possessions of Aurelius

Subjects:

Census Declaration Taxation Demography

Named people:

Aurelius Achillas Ptolemaios, son of Chairemon and Tauris Aurelia Tauris, mother of Aurelius Achillas Ptolemaios Aurelius Dionysios, strategos Aurelius Isidotos, laographos Origenes, basilikos grammateus kai laographos Aurelius Limnaios Aurelius Syrion Caesar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus, emperor

Named places:

Karanis Herakleidou meris Arsinoite nome

English translation:

To Aurelius Dionysios, strategos of the district of Herakleides in the Arsinoite nome, and to Aurelius Isidotos alias Origenes, the royal scribe of the same district, and to the laographoi of the village of Karanis. From Aurelius Achillas Ptolemaios, son of Chairemon, his mother being Tauris, from the village of Karanis. According to the instructions given I declare for the house-by-house census of the past year 24, myself and mine. And I am Achillas, 35 years old, and my mother, Aurelia Tauris, 60 years old. And I own: in the Eastern quarter one half of a house with courtyard, and from the father's side a fourth part of that same house, as well as a house with courtyard in the Northern quarter. Wherefore I submit a declaration.(Second hand) Aurelius Ptolemaios, I got a duplicate for examination.(Third hand) Aurelius Limnaios, I also received one.(Fourth hand) Aurelius Syrion, I also received one.(Fifth hand) In the first year of the Imperator Caesar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Pius Felix Augustus.

Provenance:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 25

Further Literature

Youtie HC, CPh 27 (1932) 93-94