P.Mich.inv. 2990

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Record Details

Inventory Number
P.Mich.inv. 2990
Processing Number
1732
Section/Side
Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side
Verso; Recto is PMich VI, 374
Connections
Archive of Gaius Apolinarius Niger (& family)
Material
Pap
Size
10.6 X 15.5 cm
Items
1
Lines
Col. I - 17
Col. II - 7
Mounted
No
Negative
No
Negative in Copenhagen
yes
Conservation Status
Fragment cut from a roll (cf. Recto); broken at the bottom, at the left and at the right
Palaeographic Description
see electronic version of PMich VI, 395
Status
published
Library
Cairo

Contents

Date
183 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
Petheus son of Pasion
Type of Text/Title of Work
Receipts for Tax Payments in Kind
Content
Receipt of wheat for taxes paid on 2 plots of catoecic land and for dues on epibole, with remnants of another receipt
Persons
Commodus, Emperor;
Petheus son of Pasion, sitologos of Karanis (& associates);
Gaius Apolinarius (Apollinarius) Niger (see P. Mich. VI, 422 introd.; Eos 49 [1957/1958] 155-164);
Gaius Iulius Niger (see P. Mich. VI, 422 introd.; Eos 49 [1957/1958] 155-164);
(Gaius Iulius) Longinus (see P. Mich. VI, 422 introd.; Eos 49 [1957/1958] 155-164);
[Gemellus alias] Horion(?) (see P. Mich. VI, 422 introd.; Eos 49 [1957/1958] 155-164)
Geographica
Karanis; Kerkesoucha; Psenarpsenesis
Translation
The twenty-third year of Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus, Pauni 8. We, Petheus, son of Pasion, and associates, sitologoi of the village of Karanis, have received at the granary of the aforesaid village from the produce of the same year by leveled public wheat-measure . . . for catoecic dues of Kerkesoucha, from Gaius Apolinarius Niger, nine and one-twelfth artabai of wheat, equal 9 1/12 artabai of wheat; for an epibole, from the same, two and one-fourth, equal 2 1/4 artabai of wheat; and the extra charges on all of these. On the 14th likewise of the same month for catoecic dues of Psenharpsenesis, from Gaius Iulius Niger through Apolinarius and Longinus, his brother, two and twenty-three twenty-fourths, equal 2 23/24 artabai of wheat.
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Information on Publications

Publications
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections
PMich VI Pearl OM-Youtie HC 1944 395 Pearl OM-Youtie HC, PMich VI, 395, 1944

Cataloging

Cataloger
PH
Year Begin
183
Year End
183

Technical Details

Record
1732
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