P.Corn. Inv. II 36 / Recto

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Inventory Number

P.Corn. Inv. II 36

Processing Number

1253

Section/Side

Recto + Verso

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto + Verso

Material

Pap

Size

32.5 x 26.5 cm

Items

1

Lines

30 lines

Mounted

No

Negative

No

Conservation Status

The papyrus, complete but rather damaged in the left half. On the recto side and in the left hand side top section the papyris forms a folding overlaping itself (as it seems, already when it was written). A sheet-join on the right hand side.

Palaeographic Description

The hand of the first receipt (lines 1-12) is a large, upright, flowing cursive with long flourishes o final alphas, sigmas and nus. The date (lines 13-16) was added by a second hand in the wide margin to the left. In the blank space below this date a third hand wrote another receipt (lines 17-28) seven years later

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

November 4, 312 A.D. (lines 1-16); December 22, 319 A.D. (lines 17-29)

Origin

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Provenance

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of 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

Aurelius Pale and Attamon; Aurelii Harpokras, sarapion Apollonios and Syrion

Type of Text/Title of Work

Receipts for taxes in kind

Content

The text contains two receipts for payments in wheat.

Subject Headings

Receipts (Acknowledgments)--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Wheat--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Persons

Aurelios Pale;

Aurelios Atammon;

Aurelios Pelenios;

Aurelios Selpous;

Aurelios Isidoros;

Aurelios Heron;

Aurelios Ammonas;

Aurelios Harpokras;

Aurelios Sarapion;

Aurelios Apollonios;

Aurelios Syrion

Geographica

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Leukogion, Herakleopolite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt

Translation

Aurelii Pale and Atammon and their associate apodektai of Leukogion harbor to Aurelii Pelenios, Selpous, Isidoros, heron, and Ammonas, from the village of Karanis, greeting. We have received from you in the said Leukogion harbor on account of the sowing of the twentieth year one hundred thirty-five artabs of wheat including (a surcharge of) ten hundredths, 135 art. total, no other receipt being applicable. I, Aurelius Atammon, wrote the whole.

(2nd hand) In the consulship for the second time of our masters Constantinus and Licinius Augusti, Hathyr 8th.

(3rd hand) In the consulship of our masters Constantinus Augustus, (consul) for the fifth time, and Licinius the most illustrious Caesar, (consul) for the first time, Choiak 24th. Aurelii Harpokras, Sarapion, Apollonios, and Syrion, apaitetai of the city, to Aurelii Heron and Isidoros, gretting. We have received from you, for the sowing of imperial lands of the eighth indiction, six and a half artabs of wheat, 6 1/2 art. total; and on the 25th, likewise the same persons for the same indiction, for imperial sowing, one-half artab of wheat, 1/2 art. total, no other receipt for seven artabs of wheat being applicable. I, Sarapion, have signed.

(verso): receipt of grain for the sowing of imperial lands.

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1253

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PNYU	Lewis N	1967	4a	Lewis N, PNYU, 4a, 1967 -- BL VIII 227 (date)	BL VIII 227 (date)

Cataloging

Cataloger

NL

Year Begin

312

Year End

319

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

8047 x 5676

File Size

6 MB

Record

1253

Link to this Item

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Manifest

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