P.Corn. Inv. II 2 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Corn. Inv. II 2
- Processing Number
- 1246
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; traces of an adress on the Verso
- Connections
- P. L. Bat 20, 54, cf. P. L. Bat 21 A, p.129.
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 9.4 x 31 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto: 1-31
- Verso: 1-2
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- Light-brown papyrus which is rather regularly torn off at the left and the right sides. Cut off at the bottom. Three vertical folds still visible (TC).
- Palaeographic Description
- Careless Ptolemaic hand. Some marginhas been left: at the left side 2.2 cm., at the bottom 2.7 cm. and at the right side only 0.7 cm. Text on recto has been divided in three sections separated by some empty space of aprroximately 1 cm and the bottom section (ll. 27-31) is washed out.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- Middle third century B.C.
- Origin
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Provenance
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Acquisition
- In 1922 through the agency of the British Museum for Cornell University; handed over to the University of Michigan in 1972.
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Estimate of freight charges
- Content
- List of estimated expenses connected to the transportation by boat of unknown objects.
- Subject Headings
- Drachma.
- Taxation--Egypt.
- Measures and weights, Ancient.
- Currency convertibility (Egypt)
- Cargo ships--Handling--Egypt.
- Freight and freightage--Egypt.
- Fees, Administrative--Egypt.
- Persons
- -
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- Ll. 4-26. "Freightage, reckoned in copper, 45 drachmas (?). Inspection tax at Memphis, silver, 4 drachmas. Thus there are added to the charges per 100 (artabas), 49 drachmas, 2 1/4 obols (?). Also in Memphis the . . . toll, at 1 chalkous per artaba, (total) silver, 2 drachmas 1/2 obol. Discount, 1 1/4 obols. Clerical charges on the boat,silver, 2 (drachmas) 4 obols. Distributed per 100 (artabas), with discount, 3 obols. Labor charge, 1 (drachma) 4 obols. Added for temple dues per 100 (artabas), tranposed into copper, 2 (drachmas) 3 obols. For commision agent, who will receive and measure, per 100, 1 drachma. Total charges per 100 artabas, in copper, 57 drachmas 2 obols. Figuring the total as 56 drachmas 2 obols, the charge per artaba is 3 1/2 obols, not including interest, lodging, food, police protection (?)." Verso: "T . . . to Phormio."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1246
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PCorn Westermann WL - Kraemer CJ 1926 3 Pl p37 Westermann WL - Kraemer CJ, PCorn, 3, 1926, Pl p37 -- For all the corrections until January 1978, see P.L.Bat. 21A, pp. 33 and 129 For all the corrections until January 1978, see P.L.Bat. 21A, pp. 33 and 129
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- -299
- Year End
- -200
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3992 x 7419
- File Size
- 4 MB
- Record
- 1246
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1246/c2_2r.tif
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"P.Corn. Inv. II 2; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1246/c2_2r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2024.