OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

14.6 x 7.6 cm.

Lines:

13

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

August 6, 116 A.D.

Origin:

Theadelphia, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Sarapion

Title / Type of text:

Sitologus receipt

Content:

Receipt of wheat paid for taxes on private land

Subjects:

Taxation (Land) Tax collection Receipt Wheat

Named people:

Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus Parthicus, emperor Sarapion Thaisarion, daughter of Maro Maro Aphrodisia, daughter of Theogiton Theogiton

Named places:

Euhemeria Theadelphia

English translation:

The nineteenth year of the Emperor Caesar Nerva Traianus Optimus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus Parthicus, the 13th of the month Caesareus. We, Sarapion and partners, sitologi of Theadelphia and other villages, have had measured to us of the produce of the same nineteenth year: from Thaisarion, daughter of Maron, residents of Euhemereia, seven and 1/3 and 1/20 and 1/70 artabae of wheat, of levelled public wheat measure; from the land formerly planted with vine, 1/2 and 1/3 and 1/12 artabae, in sum eight and 1/4 and 1/20 and 1/70 artabae of wheat; and from Aphrodeisia, daughter of Theogiton, residents of Theadelpheia, four and 1/4 artabae; from residents of Euhemereia three and 1/6 artabae of wheat, in sum seven and 1/3 and 1/10 and 1/70 artabae of wheat - total receipt of fifteen and 1/2 and 1/6 and 1/20 and 1/70 artabae of wheat plus the additional payments.

Provenance:

Theadelphia, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by S.Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 28
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, p. 153 (l.5, 8)

Further Literature

Reiter F, Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites. 2004, 153, note 48Derda T, Arsinoites nomos. Warsaw 2006, p. 139, 140