O.Skeat 9 / Recto
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Record Details
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."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1197
Information on Publications
- Publications
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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
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1197/o_sk9r.tif
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- Full citation
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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.