P.Mich.inv. 880 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 880
- Processing Number
- 3148
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto
- Connections
- The tax-archive from Philadelphia
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 70.2 x 29 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-82
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- Top and bottom margins are preserved, although an extensive lacuna at the beginning of the line mars the text in the first column after line 13. The fourth column on recto and the last to be preserved at right has also lost between six and ten letters along its right margin. The document, which begins with a heading at the top of column I, line 1, may be lacking only the fifth and final column.
- Palaeographic Description
- Written in a large and fluid hand, one of the most readable of the archive.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- (After) July 24, 57 A.D.
- Origin
- Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- September 1922; Acquired by Dr. Askren
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Account
- Content
- Account of sheep of Lucius
- Subject Headings
- Sheep--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Expense accounts--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Jews--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Shepherds--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Wool industry--Accounting--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Wages--Shepherds--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Wine--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Beer--Taxation--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Baths--Taxation--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Hides and skins--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Lucius, shepherd
- Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, emperor,
- Phepheros, shepherd,
- Sakolaos, Jew,
- Isak, Jew,
- Pouoris, son of Pabos,
- Theon, farmer,
- Sambas (?)
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- Column I
- "Account of the sheep of Lucius for year 2 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, in Pachon (26 April-25 May 56):
- Phepheros the shepherd has 53 female sheep, 27 males, 22 lambs.
- Total: 80 sheep in all, 22 lambs.
- Of these, there perished in Pachon (26 April - 25 May 56) through the same shepherd 2 females,
- In Pauni (26 May - 44 June 56) 1 female,
- In Mesore (25 July - 23 August 56) 1 male, 2 lambs. Total, 3 females, 1 male and 2 lambs. Total, 6. Remainder, 50 females, 26 males, 20 lambs. Total, 96.
- Account of receipts from Pachon to Mesore (26 April -23 August 56) of year 2 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator:
- In Pachon, for the price of 3 skins, through Sakolaos the Jew 12 dr.
- ... likewise to Isak the Jew, thorugh Pouoris, son of Pabos, 8 dr.
- [three lines badly damaged]
- ... for the price of 1 female and 3 males 50 dr.
- ... for the price of 1 female and 2 males 40 dr.
- ... for the price 1 female and 1 male 40 dr.
- ... through (?) Pnepheros; total 150 dr.
- Column II
- Expenditures of these items, in Pachon (26 April-25 May 56):
- To Theon the farmer, for the price of 2 arourae of hay 64 dr.
- For cutting the aforesaid 2 arourae 12 dr.
- To Pnepheros the shepherd, wages for 4 months, at 16 dr. per month 64 dr.
- For the price of 2 keramia of wine 6 dr.
- For bath tax, hemiartabion 3 dr.
- For beer tax for the same shepherd 10 dr.
- Total, 159 dr., and for expenses, 9 dr. - on the estate of Lucius.
- Year 3, likewise, account of the sheep of Lucius, through the same shepherd Pnepheros:
- In the month of Sebastos (29 August - 27 September 56), he had 50 females, 26 males, 20 lambs.
- Total, 76 sheeps, 20 lambs.
- Of these there perished through the same shepherd in the same month of Sebastos 2 females, 1 lamb. Total lost, 2 females, 1 lamb.
- In Phaophi and Hathyr (28 September - 26 November 56), 3 lambs. Total, 3 lambs . . .
- In Hathyr (28 October - 26 November 56), in the Forty-Arourae plot through Theon (?) and through the same Pnepheros the shepherd, to Isak the Jew, for sale, 3 males.
- Column III
- In Tybi (27 December 56 - 25 January 57), through Apollos, son of Sosippos, and Pnepheros the same shepherd to the same Isak the Jew, likewise for sale, the amount (?) of 5 females and 1 lambskin.
- Total sold, 8 sheep and 1 skin.
- And in the 100-arourae plot, through Pnepheros the shepherd and Sambas, Arab, likewise for sale to Isak the Jew, 4 males.
- Total, 7 females, 7 males, 5 lambs
- Remainder, 43 females, 19 males, 15 lambs, 77 in all.
- Account of receipts of the same third year:
- In the month of Sebastos, through Isak the Jew and through Pnepheros the shepherd, for the price of wool (?) 12 dr.
- And to Isak the Jew throug the same shepherd ... 3 dr.
- In Phaophi to Isak the Jew for one lambskin 2 dr.
- In Hathyr likewise to the same Isak the Jew for the price of 3 skins 7 dr.
- In Tybi through ... and the same shepherd ...
- Column IV
- To Isak for sale, the same amount (?) of 5 female sheep and 1 lambskin.
- Im Mecheir likewise, in the 100-arourae plot, through [Sambas or Pouoris (?)], Arab, 4 males. Total, for receipts, 186 dr. of silver
- And from the price of wool in the month of Sebastos ...
- To Pouoris the merchant for 200 females, ... , ... males ...
- [The text becomes fragmentary]
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3148
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections Life in a Multi-Cultural Society Hanson AE 1988 140-144 SB XX 14525 Hanson AE, Life in a Multi-Cultural Society, 140-144, 1988 -- SB XX 14525 -- l.31 en Loukio (not en Loukiou) (TC); l.31 en Loukio (not en Loukiou) (TC);
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 57
- Year End
- 57
Technical Details
- Record
- 3148
- Link to this Item
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