O.Skeat 9 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number
O.Skeat 9
Processing Number
1197
Section/Side
Recto
Image Side
Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side
Recto; Verso is blank
Connections
-
Material
Ost
Size
8.8 x 8 cm
Items
1
Lines
1-5
Mounted
No
Negative
No
Conservation Status
This very light-red ostracon is completely preserved.
Palaeographic Description
Written in a quick and somewhat careless semicursive. Letters badly faded, especially in the last two lines of the text.
Status
published
Library
Ann Arbor

Contents

Date
June/July 7, 95 A.D.
Origin
Thebes, the Thebaid, Upper Egypt, province of Egypt
Provenance
Thebes, the Thebaid, Upper Egypt, province of Egypt
Acquisition
purchased at Luxor in November 1933 by T. C. Skeat and donated in 1948 to the University of Michigan
Language
Greek
Genre
documentary
Author
Socrates
Type of Text/Title of Work
tax-receipt
Content
receipt issued to Isidorus, son of Senmaus, for the payment of poll-tax (laographia) and bath-tax (balaneutikon) and additional payments (prosdiagraphomena).
Persons
Isidorus, son of Senmaus,
Domitianus, emperor,
Socrates, scribe (?)
Geographica
Charax, quarter in Thebes
Translation
"In year 14 Isidorus, son of Senmaus, has paid 10 drachmas in poll-tax in Charax, and in bath-tax (he has paid) 1 drachma and 1 1/2 obols, in total 11 drachmas 1/2 obols, and the additional payments. Year 14 of Domitian, Our Lord, Pauni 313 (?). I, Socrates, have signed."

Information on Publications

Publications
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections
TAPA 81 Youtie HC 1950 109 SB VI 9117 Youtie HC, TAPA 81, 109, 1950 -- SB VI 9117 -- BL VIII, 339 (on l. 5); BL VIII, 339 (on l. 5);
Scriptiunculae I H C Youtie 1973 223 H C Youtie, Scriptiunculae I, 223, 1973

Cataloging

Cataloger
TC
Year Begin
95
Year End
95

Technical Details

Record
1197
Link to this Item
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1197/o_sk9r.tif

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"O.Skeat 9; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1197/o_sk9r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2025.
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