P.Mich.inv. 4731 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 4731
- Processing Number
- 2288
- Section/Side
- A; Recto, second text
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto, second text; Verso: S.B. VI, 9554, 2a
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 12.2 x 20 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 22
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- fragment of a tomos synkollesimos composed of several declarations glued side by side; broken off on the right side, damaged in the middle
- Palaeographic Description
- 2nd hand: skilled commercial style; 3rd & 4th hands: skills approaching that of a professional scribe
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- June 7 or 10, 147 A.D.
- Origin
- either Arsinoe or unknown place, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 26-B17F-A
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- 3 sons of a Ptolemaios: Mysthes(?) alias Sarapion, Ptolemaios, & Sarapammon alias Andronikos
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Census Declaration
- Content
- Declaration (kat'oikian apographe for the census of 146/147 A.D.) of a vacant lot owned by three brothers
- Subject Headings
- Rome--Census.
- Land tenure--Egypt--Arsinoë (Fayy¯um : Extinct city)
- Literacy--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Areios(?) komogrammateus of [- - -];
- My - - - (Mysthes?) alias Sarapion, son of Ptolemaios alias [- - -], katoikos;
- Ptolemaios, son of Ptolemaios alias [- - -], katoikos;
- Sarapammon alias Androneikos (Andronikos), son of Ptolemaios alias [- - -], katoikos;
- Antoninus Pius, Emperor
- Geographica
- amphodon Linypheion (Arsinoiton polis)
- Translation
- (1st hand) 22.
- (2nd hand) To Areios(?), village-secretary of . . ., from My . . ., also called [Sarapion], and Ptolemaios, and Sarapammon also called Androneikos, all three sons of Ptolemaios also called . . ., catoeci registered in the quarter of the Linen-weavers. There belongs to us . . . of the village a vacant lot, area one-fourth bikos, which we declare for the house-by-house census of the past 9th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord . . . (3rd hand) I, Sarapammon, son of Ptolemaios, have submitted the declaration, and have written for my brother M . . ., also called Sarapion, illiterate. (4th hand) I, Ptolemaios, son of Ptolemaios, have submitted it, as aforesaid. (5th hand) 10th year of [Antoninus] Caesar the lord, Pauni 13 <or 16>.
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 336-340 SB VI 9554, 2c Pearl OM, CE 28, 336-340, 1953 -- SB VI 9554, 2c
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- R.S. Bagnall - B.W. Frier, The Demography of Roman Egypt (Cambridge, 1994) p. 224.
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 147
- Year End
- 147
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2320 x 3072
- File Size
- 948 KB
- Record
- 2288
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2288/4731ar.tif
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