P.Mich.inv. 6953 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 6953
- Processing Number
- 3042
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Connections
- P.Mich. XVIII, 772-774
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 9 x 30 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 24 Greek lines, 2 Demotic ones;
- Verso - 1 Greek line
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- Slightly damaged along the right edge and the central fold
- Palaeographic Description
- The handwriting is large, with letters widely spaced; it is of a type common throughout the IIIrd cent. B.C. - The hand of the label written on the Verso seem to be that of Ptolemaios (see P.Mich. XVIII, 772)(Caulfield - Keith - Pratt)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- October 29, 195 B.C.
- Origin
- Oxyrhyncha, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Provenance
- Unknown necropolis (cemeteries at Abusir al-Malaq or al-Lahun?)
- Acquisition
- Mummy cartonnage bought in 1982
- Language
- Greek
- Demotic (Recto, l. 25-26)
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Menches, Harentotes, and Menches
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Tax-Farming and Loan Contract
- Content
- Contract in which the three tax farmers of Oxyrhyncha acknowledge to have received 1300 copper drachmai from Ptolemaios, farmer of the kollybos and of the goldsmith's tax (chrysokoike) for the nome; they agree to pay it back in three instalments on top of the regular payments they owe him for the tax-farming they have subcontracted from him
- Subject Headings
- Taxes, Farming of--Egypt--Bahnas¯a .
- Goldsmiths--Taxation--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- LoanszEgypt--Bahnas¯a .
- ReceiptszEgypt--Bahnas¯a .
- Persons
- Menches (see also P.Mich. XVIII, 772; 774);
- Harentotes son of Petosiris (see also P.Mich. XVIII, 772);
- (another) Menches (see also P.Mich. XVIII, 772; 774);
- Ptolemaios (see also P.Mich. XVIII, 772-774; see also P.Mich. XVIII, p. 93 and 119)
- Geographica
- Oxyrhyncha
- Translation
- (Recto)
- Menches and Harentotes and Menches, the tax farmers of Oxyrhyncha and the villages listed below, to Ptolemaios the tax farmer of the kollybos and the goldsmith's tax of the nome of the 11th year, greetings. We have from you thirteen hundred drachmai in copper (that is, 1300 drachmai) and we will pay out to you by month, together with the tax, into the royal bank, in Thoth, four hundred drachmai and the tax of thirteen hundred drachmai (that is, 1700 drachmai) and in Phaophi likewise 1700 drachmai and in Hathyr likewise 1800 drachmai. Farewell. Year 11, Thoth 19.
- (Demotic) Harentotes, son of Petosiris, says to Ptolemaios: I shall act according to every word that is written above.
- (Verso)
- (2nd hand) Menches.
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich XVIII Caulfield T - Keith AM - Pratt L 1996 771 Pl. IX Caulfield T - Keith AM - Pratt L, PMich XVIII, 771, 1996, Pl. IX
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- s
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- -195
- Year End
- -195
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 1200 x 2965
- File Size
- 473 KB
- Record
- 3042
- Link to this Item
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