OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

15 x 13.3 cm.

Lines:

16

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

August 14, 86 A.D.

Origin:

Theogonis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Eutychos

Title / Type of text:

Sitologus receipt

Content:

Receipt of wheat paid for taxes on private land, including epibole.

Subjects:

Taxation (Land) Tax collection Transport Receipt Wheat

Named people:

Eutychus, sitologos of Theogonis Sa[......], sitologos of Theogonis Didymos, son of Didymos Lysimachos, son of Didymos Kronion, son of Heraklides Heraklides, father of Kronion Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, emperor

Named places:

Theogonis Polemonos meris Tebtynis Kerkesephis Kerkesis (Kerkeesis)

English translation:

The fifth year of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, the twenty-first of the month Caesareus, Imperial Day. We, Sa ...... and Eutychus, sitologi of Theogonis and other villages in the division of Polemon, have had measured to us from the products of the same year: by Didymus son of Didymus, through his son, residents of Tebtunis, liable to tax of one-artaba, seven and one third and one twenty-fourth artabae of wheat, 7 1/3 1/12 art., by public measure; and by Didymus son of Didymus, residents of Tebtunis, three and a half and one eighth artabae of wheat, 3 11/28 art., for epibole one sixth of an artaba of wheat, 1/6 art., and by Lysimachus son of Didymus, through Didymus his brother, liable to tax of one-artaba, residents of Kerkesephis, four and a half and one eighth artabae of wheat, 4 11/28 art.; and by Cronion son of Heraclides, through his daughter, also liable to the one-artaba tax, also residents of Kerkesephis, two and a half and one third and one twelfth artabae of wheat, 2 1/2 1/3 1/12 art.; by the same Heraclides for vineyards near Kerkesis, three and one eighth artabae of wheat, 3 1/8 art., total for the receipt 21 5/6 artabae, and the additional measurements for Kerkesephis, transport dues for Kerkesis and Kerkesephis. Signature of Eutychus.

Provenance:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased from M.Nahman, Cairo, Feb. 18, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 49, 1973, 39-45
  SB: XIV 11430
• Sijpesteijn PJ, ZPE 101, 1994, 99-100, picture: Tafel IIIa
  SB: XXII 15732

Further Literature

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