Main Record
Description
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 4172
- Processing Number
- 3311
- Section/Side
- Recto, col. 185 (l. 3054-3083)
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- + P.Cair. Inv. 57187; cf. also P.Mich. IV/1, 224 + IV/2, 357 (inv. 4171 + 2830 + 3159 + 4910)
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- col. 185-186: 18 x 27.1 cm; total size: ***
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Col. 185: 30 lines
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- Col. 185: broken off on the left side (and on the right side of col. 186)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 173-174 A.D.
- Origin
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- Acquired from Nahman in October 1924, through the British Museum; arrived in Ann Arbor in October 1926. (See also inv. 2830; 4171; etc.)
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Unknown tax-collector (Sarapion, son of Sokrates?)
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Tax Roll
- Content
- Tax register, recording the daily collection of money taxes in the village of Karanis; the name of each tax-payer paying the poll-tax is cross-referenced with a page of another register, where taxpayers were listed geographically
- Subject Headings
- Illegitimacy--Egypt
- Guards troops--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Slaves--Taxation--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Real property tax--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Poll tax--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Tax collection--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Karanis (Extinct city)--Defenses.
- Slaves--Taxation--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Persons
- [Onnophris] son of Petheus and Ptolema grandson of Petheus (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 192);
- [- - - son of - - -] and Tasoucharion grandson of Petesouchos;
- [Mysthes son of Phaesis] and Aynchis grandson of Mysthes (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 189);
- [Dionysios] son of Tepheros, [apator] (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 162);
- [Ptolemaios] son of Onnophris and Tapetheus grandson of Petheus (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 218);
- [Pakysis son of Phanomgeus] and Tepheros grandson of Pakysis (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 196);
- [Pakysis son of Phasis] and Tanomgeus grandson of Esouris (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 196);
- [Pasoknopaios son of Phasis] and Tanomgeus grandson of Esouris (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 199);
- [- - -] Apolinarius;
- (unnamed) son of Loukias;
- [Orsenouphis son of Pakysis] and Tapetheus grandson of Artemidoros (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 194);
- [- - - son of - - -] and Thaesis, [grandson of - - -];
- [- - - son of - - -] and Heras, [grandson of - - -];
- [Petsiris son of Pasoknopaios] and Heros [grandson of Petsiris] (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 211);
- [Onnophris son of Pasoknopaios] and Heros [grandson of Petsiris] (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 191);
- [- - - son of - - -] and Taorsenouphis [grandson of - - -];
- [Castrensis, doulos of Thaisarion] alias Nebsosis (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 181);
- [- - - son of - - -] and Thaisas [grandson of - - -];
- [- - - son of - - -] and Thaisas [grandson of - - -];
- [- - - son of - - -] and Tasoucharion [grandson of - - -];
- [Pamonneios (Pamonneouis) son of Anchorimphis] and Didymarion [grandson of Pamonneios] (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 197)
- Translation
- (Col.) 185
- (Phaophi 27, continued)
- [Onnophris], son of Petheus and Ptolema, grandson of Petheus, for ch(--): 4 drachmai; (and) the remainder of the ch(--)
- [- - - son of - - -] and Tasoucharion, grandson of Petesouchos, for ch(--): 8 drachmai
- [Mysthes, son of Phaesis] and Aynchis, grandson of Mysthes: the remainder of the ch(--)
- [Dionysios, of unknown father, his mother being] Tepheros: the remainder of the ch(--)
- [Ptolemaios], son of Onnophris and Tapetheus, grandson of Petheus, [for guards: 5 drachmai]; for guard towers: 1 drachme 1 obol. Total: 6 drachmai 1 obol.
- [Pakysis, son of Phanomgeus] and Tepheros, grandson of Pakysis: the remainder of the ch(--)
- [Pakysis, son of Phasis] and Tanomgeus, grandson of Esouris, for ch(--): 4 drachmai
- [Pasoknopaios], his brother, (born) of the same mother, for ch(--): 4 drachmai
- Total for the day: 4[*] drachmai 12 obols.
- [On the 28th, similarly:]
- [- - -] Apolinarius - (through) the son of Loukias - [for garden land of year 13: for apomoira], 11 drachmai 1 1/2 obols; for olive (transportation), 1 [drachme] 3 1/2 obols; for naubion, 1 drachme 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi; for supplements, 2 drachmai 5 obols; [for eparourion, 7 drachmai 3 obols]; for supplements, 3 1/2 obols; for kollybos, 2 1/2 obols. Total: 25 drachmai 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi. (Lost in left margin: [24 drachmai 12 obols].)
- [Orsenouphis, son of Pakysis] and Tapetheus, grandson of Artemidoros: the remainder of the ch(--)
- [- - -, son of - - -] and Thaesis, [grandson of - - -], for ch(--): 4 drachmai
- [- - -, son of - - -] and Heras, [grandson of - - -], for ch(--): 4 drachmai
- [Petsiris, son of Pasoknopaios] and Heros, [grandson of Petsiris]: the remainder of the ch(--)
- [Onnophris, his brother, (born) of the] same [mother]: the remainder of the ch(--)
- [- - -, son of - - -] and Taorsenouphis, [grandson of - - -], for ch(--): 4 drachmai
- [Total for the day]: 44 drachmai 14 obols.
- [On the 29th, similarly:]
- [Castrensis, slave of Thaisarion] also called Nebsosis: the remainder of the ch(--)
- [- - -, son of - - -] and Thaisas, [grandson of - - -], for ch(--): 4 drachmai 27 obols
- [- - -, son of - - -] and Thaisas, [grandson of - - -], for ch(--): 4 drachmai
- [- - -, son of - - -] and Tasoucharion, [grandson of - - -]: the remainder of the ch(--)
- [Pamonneios, son of Anchorimphis] and Didymarion, [grandson of Pamonneios], for ch(--): 4 drachmai
- [- - -], for ch(--): 28 obols
- [Total for the day: 24 drachmai 8 obols]
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich IV/1 Youtie HC 1936 225, col. 185 (l. 3054-3083) Youtie HC, PMich IV/1, 225, col. 185 (l. 3054-3083), 1936 -- BL III, 114 (l. 3065; 3076) BL III, 114 (l. 3065; 3076)
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- P.Mich. IV/2, p. 45.
- General bibliography on the tax rolls:
- H.C. Youtie - O.M. Pearl, AJPh 57 (1936) p. 465-469; H.C. Youtie, Classical Weekly 30 (1937) p. 199-201 [= Scriptiunculae II (Amsterdam, 1973) p. 851-857, with addenda]; L.C. West - A.C. Johnson, Currency in Roman and Byzantine Egypt (Princeton, 1944) p. 20; 53-58; V.B. Schuman, CP 44 (1949) p. 236-239; D.S. Crawford, CP 45 (1950) p. 185-186; V.B. Schuman, CP 46 (1951) p. 34-36; V.B. Schuman, CP47 (1952) p. 214-218; V.B. Schuman, Aegyptus 32 (1952) p. 241-252; V.B. Schuman, Aegyptus 39 (1959) p. 223-225; V.B. Schuman, CE 38 (1963) p. 306, n. 2; C.Pap.Jud. III, No. 492; H.C. Youtie, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Papyrology (Toronto, 1970) p. 545-551 [= Scriptiunculae II (Amsterdam, 1973) p. 1035-1041]; H.C Youtie, ZPE 13 (1974) p. 238-239; H.C. Youtie, ZPE 15 (1974) p. 117-141; V.B. Schuman, BASP 12 (1975) p. 23-58; P.Cair.Mich. 359, introduction; J.C. Shelton, BASP 14 (1983) p. 83-93; V.B. Schuman, Archiv 29 (1983) p. 41-57; P. van Minnen, ZPE 100 (1994) p. 244-246
Information on Publications--Notes
- Notes
- Due to the size of this tax roll (P.Mich. IV/1, 225 + IV/2, 358), its content has been divided in the present database into several cards (one for each column).
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 173
- Year End
- 174
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