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
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]

Information on Publications

Publications
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
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