P.Mich.inv. 4731 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 4731
- Processing Number
- 2290
- Section/Side
- B
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso unpublished (ends of 12 lines)
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 4.6 x 18.1 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- ca. 25
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- very badly damaged; broken off at the top and on the left side; probably part of a tomos synkollesimos, that would have been composed of several declarations glued side by side
- Palaeographic Description
- 1st hand: highly developed cursive with sweeping strokes and linkage; 2nd hand: consists of square letters, laboriously traced; 3rd hand: a skilled commercial hand
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- July-August, 161 A.D.
- Origin
- unknown place, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 26-B17F-A
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- A woman of uncertain name
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Census Declaration
- Content
- Fragmentary declaration (kat'oikian apographe for the census of 160/161 A.D.) of an unoccupied dwelling
- Subject Headings
- Egypt--Census.
- Land tenure--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Home ownership--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Antoninus Pius, deceased Emperor;
- Marcus Aurelius & Lucius Verus, Emperors;
- [- - -]ia alias [- - -]nis
- Geographica
- [- - -]
- Translation
- . . . [buildings which I declare] for the house-by-house census of the past 23rd year of Antoninus [Caesar] the lord, for which I declare [no one].
- (2nd hand) I, . . . ia, also called . . . nis, have submitted the declaration.
- (3rd hand) [1st year] of the Emperor [Caesar] Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus [and] of the Emperor [Caesar Lucius] Aurelius [Verus] Augustus, Mesore [. .].
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections CE 28 Pearl OM 1953 344-346 SB VI 9554, 5 Pearl OM, CE 28, 344-346, 1953 -- SB VI 9554, 5 -- BL VIII, 350 (line 20) BL VIII, 350 (line 20)
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- P.J. Sijpesteijn, ZPE 40 (1980) p. 136; R.S. Bagnall - B.W. Frier, The Demography of Roman Egypt (Cambridge, 1994) p. 240.
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 161
- Year End
- 161
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2320 x 3072
- File Size
- 948 KB
- Record
- 2290
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2290/4731br.tif
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