P.Mich.inv. 396 / Verso

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 396

Processing Number

2126

Section/Side

Recto + Verso

Image Side

Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto + Verso - Verso bears also a patch with a bit of writing

Connections

See also P.Mich. X, 600; XII, 643; 645-646

Material

Pap

Size

58.5 x 25.5 cm

Items

1

Lines

Recto:

(Traces of 1 col.);

Col. I - 16;

col. II - 19;

col. III - 20;

col. IV - 21;

marginal note, between col. III and IV - 6;

Verso - 5

Mounted

Yes

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

broken (or cut) off on the left side; damaged along several folds (both vertical and horizontal)

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

August/November 303 A.D.

Origin

Unknown

Provenance

Probably Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition

purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Unknown officials (epimeletai or apodektai)

Type of Text/Title of Work

Receipt for Money of Tax Collection

Content

Receipt issued by an unknown official to the sitologoi of Philadelphia for successive payments of money collected from arrears in the land tax

Subject Headings

Taxation--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Tax collection

Persons

(unnamed) strategos;

Sarapammon;

Meterios;

Gerontios;

Kyrillous daughter of Heron, wife of Sarapion, son of Diogenes;

Loukilleion;

Pinnos;

. . . os, speculator;

Apollonios, pronoetes;

Diocletianus, Emperor;

Maximianus, Emperor;

Constantius, Caesar,

Maximianus, Caesar;

Aphon, sitologos (of Philadelphia) (see also P.Mich. X, 600; XII, 644-645);

Pasis, sitologos (of Philadelphia) (see also P.Mich. XII, 645);

Apollonia alias Kyrillous;

Dioskoros;

Demetrios

Geographica

Philadelphia; Tanis

Translation

(Traces of 1 col.)

(Col. I)

Collection on the basis of an order released by the strategos:

Phaophi 27. (In the name) of Sarapammon, for Philadelphia, as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10: 3 talents 5760 drachmai.

(2nd hand) 29th. In the name of Meterios through Gerontios, for the village of Philadelphia, as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10: 5100 dr. (In left margin:) Check this!

(3rd hand) Hathyr 2. Kyrillous, daughter of Heron and wife of Sarapion, son of Diogenes: 1 tal. 4180 dr.

Through Loukilleion and Pinnos, for year 18: 4000 dr.

Hathyr . . The same likewise: 2500 dr.

(4th hand) 14th. . . ., speculator, through Apollonios his agent, as the price of wheat of year 18, for Philadelphia: 1 tal. 1500 dr.

(5th hand) (Total:) 4 tal. 2380 dr.

(Col. II)

(6th hand) Year 19-18-11 of our lords Diocletian and Maximian, Augusti, and Constantius and Maximian, Caesares, Mesore, intercalary day 6. Aphon, Pasis, and the associate sitologoi have paid as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10, for Philadelphia, twenty talents, equal 20 tal.

And on the 21st, the same have likewise paid as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10, two talents and five thousand eight hundred eighty dr., equal 2 tal. 5880 dr.

And on the 22nd, the same have paid as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10, five thousand nine hundred sixty dr., equal 5960 dr.

And on the 29th, the same have likewise paid twenty talents, equal 20 tal.

(Col. III)

(7th hand) And on the same day, the same have likewise paid as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10, seven talents and five thousand six hundred eighty dr., equal 7 tal. 5680 dr.

And on the 30th, the same have likewise paid two talens and four thousand three hundred twenty dr., equal 2 tal. 4320 dr.

And on the same day likewise, fifteen talents, equal 15 tal.

And on the same day likewise, as the price of wheat of year 17-16-9, eight talents, equal 8 tal.

(6th hand) And on the same day, they have likewise paid as the price of wheat of year 17-16-9, four thousand eight hundred dr., equal 4800 dr.

And on the same day, the same have paid as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10, four talents, equal 4 tal.

And on the same day, the same have likewise paid five talents, equal 5 tal.

And on the same day, the same have paid as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10, twenty talents, equal 20 tal.

Phaophi 19. The same have paid as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10, for Philadelphia, two talents, equal 2 tal.

And on the 21st, the same have likewise paid as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10, for Philadelphia, five talents, equal 5 tal.

(Col. IV)

(6th hand) And on the 28th, the same have paid, as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10, for Philadelphia, twelve talents and one thousand two hundred dr., equal 12 tal. 1200 dr.

(9th hand) And on the 29th, the same have paid as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10, for Tanis, two talents and two thousand dr., equal 2 tal. 2000 dr.

And on the 30th, the same have paid as the price of wheat of year 18-17-10, for Tanis, fourteen talents, equal 14 tal.

And on the same day likewise, for Philadelphia, four talents and three thousand dr., equal 4 tal. 3000 dr.

And on the same day likewise, for Philadelphia, three talents, equal 3 tal.

And on the same day likewise, two talents, equal 2 tal.

Hathyr 25. The same have paid, for Philadelphia, ten talents, equal 10 tal.

(6th hand) Hathyr 26. The same have paid, through Dioskoros and Demetrios, for the village of Philadelphia, seven talents and one thousand three hundred forty dr., equal 7 tal. 1340 dr.

(In left margin:) (3rd hand) Hathyr 26. Through Apollonia also called Kyrillous, on account of the price of wine for Thoth: 2000 dr.

(At the bottom:) (8th hand) Total: 260 tal. 4540 dr.

(Verso)

Mesore: [39] tal. 4000 dr.

Thoth: 98 tal. 3700 dr.

Phaophi: 47 tal. 200 dr.

Hathyr: 39 tal. 1100 dr. 3 tal.

Choiak: 8 tal.

Papyri.info Link

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Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich XII	Browne GM	1975	644	Browne GM, PMich XII, 644, 1975 -- L. 56-60 and 61 should be read after l. 82. (PH)	L. 56-60 and 61 should be read after l. 82. (PH)

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Institution

s

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

303

Year End

303

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

2802 x 2032

File Size

757 KB

Record

2126

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