P.Mich.inv. 2940
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 2940
- Processing Number
- 1703
Background and Physical Properties
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 4.2 x 7.6 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 12
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- broken off on the left side and at the bottom
- Status
- published
- Library
- Cairo
Contents
- Date
- 146/147 A.D.
- Origin
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 24-5006E2-A
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- [- - -] son of Sambathion
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Census Declaration
- Content
- Declaration (kat'oikian apographe for the census of 146/147 A.D.) addressed to several officials by the representative acting for a Gemellus
- Subject Headings
- Absentee landlordism--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Karanis (Extinct city)--Census.
- Land tenure--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Citizenship--Rome.
- Persons
- [Maximus alias] Nearchos, strategos of the Herakleidou meris;
- Herakleides, [basilikos grammateus] of the Herakleidou meris;
- Orsenouphis, [komogrammateus] of Karanis;
- [Dioskoros], laographos of Karanis (& associates);
- [- - -] son of Sambathion;
- [- - -]nius Gemellus
- Geographica
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris of the Arsinoite nome
- Translation
- To Maximus also called Nearchos, strategos of the division of Herakleides of the Arsinoite nome, and Herakleides, royal secretary of the same division, and Orsenouphis, village secretary of Karanis, and Dioskoros and the other laographoi of the same village.
- From . . ., son of Sambathion, of the village of Karanis. There belongs to . . . Gemellus, whose interests I represent . . .
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1703
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections CE 28 Pearl OM 1953 335-336 SB VI 9554, 1 Pearl OM, CE 28, 335-336, 1953 -- SB VI 9554, 1 CPJ III Fuks A-Tcherikover V 1964 492, 18 Fuks A-Tcherikover V, CPJ III, 492, 18, 1964
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- R.S. Bagnall - B.W. Frier, The Demography of Roman Egypt (Cambridge, 1994) p. 224.
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 146
- Year End
- 147
Technical Details
- Record
- 1703
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1703/1
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