OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

11.2 x 7.4 cm.

Lines:

7

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

128/129 A.D.

Origin:

Philopator Apiados (?), Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Tax receipt

Content:

Tax receipt for naubion katoikon and other taxes, issued by tax collectors in Philopator.

Subjects:

Taxes Official document Naubion Receipt

Named people:

Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, emperor

Named places:

Philopator Apiados (?), Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

English translation:

The thirteenth year of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus Ph... (N N) has paid to (N N) and his fellow practors of Philopator ... for the catoecic naubion tax 750 copper drachmas, for additional payments ..., (for ... ... drachmas), for additional payments 545 copper drachmas, for suspended payments ... and likewise for land tax (for the ... year) twenty eight (silver) drachmas 4 obols, total 28 dr. 4 obols.

Provenance:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from M. Nahman, Cairo, Feb.18, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 51, 1976, 148-150
  SB: XIV 12016
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Hobson DW, Aegyptus 62 (1982) p. 83, n. 13 (l. 3)Battaglia E, Aegyptus 62 (1982) p. 125, n. 7 (l. 3)

Further Literature

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