P.Mich.inv. 4716 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 4716
- Processing Number
- 2277
- Section/Side
- c; Verso + Recto, second text
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Verso + Recto, second text; Recto, first text: unpublished (fragment of a tax account)
- Connections
- Archive of the praktor Sokrates son of Sarapion?
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 9 x 27.5 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Verso - 36 + 4 in left margin;
- Recto (second text) - 3
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- (Verso) nearly complete; damaged
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IInd century A.D.: after 161 A.D. (date of the original document), perhaps before 174 A.D.
- Origin
- probably Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 26-B17F-A
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Unknown census official
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Extract from Census Register
- Content
- Extract from a census register, giving an abbreviated copy of two declarations for the census of 160/161 A.D.
- Subject Headings
- Karanis (Extinct city)--Census.
- Land tenure--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Home ownership--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Ptolemaios, son of Kastor and Kastorous, grandson of Papos (deceased after 161 A.D.?) - (see also B.G.U. I, 170; P.Lond. II, 168?);
- Tasoucharion, daughter of Aunes and Tape . . ., granddaughter of . . ., wife of Ptolemaios;
- Kastor, son of Ptolemaios and Tasoucharion (see also P.Mich. IV/2, p. 182);
- Kastor alias Ptolemaios, son of Ptolemaios and Tasoucharion (see also P.Mich. IV/2, p. 182);
- That . . ., daughter of Ptolemaios and Tasoucharion;
- Onesime, daughter of Ptolemaios and Tasoucharion, wife of K . . .;
- Tasoucharion, daughter of Ptolemaios and Tasoucharion;
- Ptolemais, daughter of Ptolemaios and Tasoucharion;
- Achillas, son of Kastor and Kastorous, grandson of Papos, brother of Ptolemaios (deceased after 161 A.D.?);
- Aphrodous, daughter of Areios and Ta . . ., granddaughter of Areios, wife of Achillas;
- Kastor, son of Achillas and Aphrodous (see also P.Mich. IV/2, p. 181);
- Kastor neoteros, son of Achillas and Aphrodous (see also P.Mich. IV/2, p. 181);
- Serapias, daughter of Achillas and Aphrodous;
- Tapiamis, daughter of Achillas and Aphrodous;
- Sab( ) (Sabinus?), son of Sarap( ) (Sarapion?), grandson of Euemeros, whose mother is Thais( ), daughter of Onnophris (see also PMich. Inv. 5689?);
- Thaisas, daughter of Didym( ) and Taesis, wife of Sab( );
- Sarap( ), son of Sab( ) and Thaisas;
- Didymion, son of Sab( ) and Thaisas
- Geographica
- Karanis; amphodon Isiou (Isieiou)
- Translation
- (Verso)
- (Lines 3-24) From the census register incorporating descriptions of the 23rd year for the village of Karanis, from volume 3, Quarter of the Isieion, column 18, . . . buildings, inherited from the {mother} 'grandmother', belonging to the persons indicated below.
- Ptolemaios, son of Kastor, grandson of Papos, whose mother is Kastorous, age 47 years.
- Kastor, son, whose mother is Tasoucharion, daughter of Aunes, age 17 years.
- Kastor also called Ptolemaios, another son, age 1 year.
- Achillas, brother of Ptolemaios, age 30(?) years.
- Kastor, son, whose mother is Aphrodous, daughter of Areios, age 15 years.
- Kastor the younger, another son, age 1 year.
- Womenfolk: Tasoucharion, daughter of Aunes, son of . . ., whose mother is Tape . . ., wife of Ptolemaios, age . . years.
- 'That . . . of them(?)'
- Onesime, daughter of them both, age 25 years, 'wife of K . . .'.
- (In margin of line 18) Tasoucharion, another daughter, age . . years.
- 'Ptolemais, daughter of them both, age 5 years.'
- Aphrodous, daughter of Areios, granddaughter of Areios, whose mother is Ta . . ., wife of Achillas, age 38 years.
- Serapias, daughter of them both, age . . years.
- Tapiamis, another daughter, age 12 years.
- (Lines 1-2, added in upper margin) And there belong to Tasoucharion in the same village a house and a courtyard, and in another location '2' houses and courtyard and a half share of a house and courtyard.
- (Two lines in left margin of lines 3-13, perpendicularly to the main text, are washed off)
- (Lines 25-36) . . . 32.
- Sab( ), son of Sarap( ), grandson of Euemeros, whose mother is Thais( ), daughter of Onnophris, age 29 years.
- Sarap( ), son, whose mother is Thaisas, daughter of Didym( ), age . . years.
- Didymion, another son, age 1 year.
- Womenfolk: Thaisas, daughter of Didym( ), whose mother is Taesis, wife of Sab( ), age 2 . years.
- And there belong to Sab( ) and his brothers in the village by equal shares from their mother a house and courtyard and another house and courtyard 'and another house', and to Thais( ), wife of Sab( ), from her mother, a half share of a house and courtyard and another house and courtyard.
- (Recto, second text)
- Kastor, son of Ptolemaios, grandson of Kastor, whose mother is Tasoucharis.
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections CE 28 Pearl OM 1953 346-352 SB VI 9555a Pearl OM, CE 28, 346-352, 1953 -- SB VI 9555a -- The first editor doesn't mention the second text of recto, which is clearly related to the verso (name of the person for whom the extract was written?). - Line 2, read oiki(ai) '2', instead of oiki(a); line 11: age of Achillas quite uncertain (40 instead of 30?) The first editor doesn't mention the second text of recto, which is clearly related to the verso (name of the person for whom the extract was written?). - Line 2, read oiki(ai) '2', instead of oiki(a); line 11: age of Achillas quite uncertain (40 instead of 30?)
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- Year Begin
- 100
- Year End
- 199
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- 2320 x 3072
- File Size
- 948 KB
- Record
- 2277
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