P.Mich.inv. 966 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 966
- Processing Number
- 3195
- Section/Side
- Recto, col. I, sections a-d
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso: grapheion accounts
- Connections
- Archive of Kronion son of Apion, nomographos of the grapheion of Tebtynis; see also note
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- original size: 310 x 28 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto, col. I, section a - 2 long lines and 20 short ones;
- section b - 31;
- section c - 8;
- section d - 25
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- Long roll broken at the right end, which was cut in seven pieces when housed into glass. - At the folds of the roll deep indentations have been worn from both edges toward the center of the sheet (the damage is most important in the right part of the roll). - The sheet bearing col. I of the recto and col. XI-XII of the Verso was attached to the rest after these columns had been written.
- Palaeographic Description
- medium-sized business hand (same as in P.Mich. II, 122).
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- (After) December 20, 46 A.D. (Recto, col. I, A.D. Verso, col. I-XII)
- Origin
- Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- June 1922; acquired from Nahman through the British Museum
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Kronion son of Apion
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Accounts of Expenditures
- Content
- Recto, col. I, and Verso, col. I-XII, present accounts of expenditures made by Kronion and his colleague Eutychas, the officials of the record-office (grapheion) of Tebtynis, during the 6th year and the beginning of the 7th year of the Emperor Claudius. In view of their distribution on the papyrus and of their incompleteness, they were probably not compiled for inspection. - Recto, col. I runs from Sept. 3 to Oct. 26, 45 A.D.; this account is continued on the verso
- Subject Headings
- Expense accounts--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
- Notaries--Fees--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
- Food prices--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
- Tax collection--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
- Talei (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Claudius, Emperor;
- Kronion (son of Apion), (grapheion official);
- [- - -] (Heronas?) nomographos(?) (see P.Mich. II, p. 96);
- Philoxas;
- Heronas (nomographos?) (see P.Mich. II, p. 96);
- Narkissos;
- Abdoubdas, machairophoros (see P.Mich. II, p. 106; BIFAO 95 [1995] p. 199-200);
- Damas;
- Heraklas;
- Eutychas (grapheion official;
- Soter;
- Ptollas (same as the following?);
- Ptollas neoteros son of Akousilaos;
- Eutychas, zytopoios;
- Takolleeinis;
- Philoxas son of Orme(--) (same as above?);
- Herod[- - -]
- Geographica
- (Arsinoiton) Polis; Talei; Tebtynis
- Translation
- (Section a)
- [- - -] of the sixth year of Tiberius Claudius [Caesar] Augustus [Germanicus] the Emperor, on the 6th of the month Sebastos: of the expenses (made) through Kronion:
- [For - - -], notary(?): 28 silver drachmai;
- [- - -] through Philoxas himself: 8 silver drachmai;
- [for the price] of wine: 12 silver drachmai;
- [- - - for an] expenditure: 6 silver drachmai 3 obols;
- [for the price] of unwritten (papyri): 8 silver drachmai;
- salary(?) of Heronas through Philoxas: 40 silver drachmai;
- [- - -] and for the price of wine: 4 silver drachmai 3 1/2 obols;
- [for] another(?) expenditure: 21 obols;
- [Price] of breads and [- - - and] oil(?) [for - - -], who went for the sake of the registers of documents (anagraphai): 1 1/2 obol;
- [- - -] 9 1/2 obols;
- [- - -] for the price of 1 keramion of wine: 16 obols;
- [- - - through] Narkissos, for a banquet of boards of officials: 1 keramion;
- . . . [- - - for Abdoubdas] the swordsman, for sake of the paper tax (chartera), for oil and prepared food [and] vegetables and as travel money: 10 obols;
- [- - -] for Heronas and Philoxas [- - -] in the meeting-place (of the procession) of the inundation, from four keramia: 24 1/2 obols.
- [- - -] . . .
- (Section b)
- [- - -] in the city: 28 drachmai;
- [- - -] . . .: 8 drachmai;
- [- - -] . . .: 12 drachmai;
- [- - -] . . . [- - -] who went to the city: [. .] silver drachmai;
- [- - -] . . .: 4 drachmai;
- [- - -] . . .: 3 obols;
- [- - -]: 8 drachmai;
- [- - -] . . .: 60 drachmai;
- [- - -] in the city: [. .] obols;
- [- - -] of Damas [- - -]: 4 drachmai;
- [- - -] for an expenditure . . .
- [- - -] . . ., swordsmen, for the sake of the registers . . .: 1 1/2 obol;
- [- - -] keramia of wine [- - -]: 10 drachmai;
- [- - -] 1 keramion of wine: 16 obols;
- For Abdoubdas the swordsman, who went for the sake of the concession of the paper tax (chartera), as travel money and for expenditure: 10 1/2 obols;
- For Heraklas at Talei, as salary: 6 obols.
- Total of expenditures up to the 23rd of the month of Sebastos: 136 drachmai 16 obols.
- For(?) Eutychas: 24 silver drachmai 5 obols;
- [and] for(?) Kronion, similarly, 24 silver drachmai 5 obols.
- [Total]: 48 [drachmai] 10 obols.
- [- - -] spent through Kronion(?): 88 silver drachmai 6 obols.
- (Section c)
- And of the (money) spent through Eutychas at Tebtynis.
- On the 9th. For Heronas: 20 silver drachmai;
- and in the meeting-place (of the procession) of the inundation, concerning Soter: 1 keramion of wine: 17 obols; and in completion [- - -]:10 copper obols.
- On the 16th. In Talei, for Ptollas, for a little made dish: 6 obols.
- (Section d)
- On the 25th. Through Ptollas the younger, son of Akousilaos, for price of an unwritten (papyrus): 4 drachmai. Total: 92 drachmai 6 obols.
- Join expense incurred since Phaophi [- - -]
- On Phaophi 2. With Heronas, on the avenue (dromos), 3 keramia of wine: 52 obols;
- (and) for dates and vegetables: 1 1/2 obol.
- On the 4th. For Abdoubdas the swordsman, who went for the sake of the paper tax (chartera), as travel money: 9 1/2 obols.
- On the 9th. For Eutychas the brewer, for the paper tax (chartera): 4 drachmai.
- On the 10th. For the prive of 2 fishes (korakinoi): 4 obols.
- . . . for Takolleinis, for nuts(?): [. .] obols.
- . . . near the meeting-place (of the procession): 1 keramion of wine: 18 obols; oil: 1 obol.
- For the price of . . ., through [- -- ]: 13 obols.
- On the 21st. Through Philoxas, son of Orme(--), for 2 papyrus (rolls) . . .: 8 drachmai.
- On the 27th. In [- - -] papyrus: 6 obols.
- For us, for price of beer on the avenue (dromos): 1 obol.
- For us, for price of 2 fishes (korakinoi): 2 obols.
- On the 28th. For Heronas, for price of 2 keramia of wine: 36 obols.
- For price of fishes (thrissai): 2 obols.
- Similarly, for price of a made dish: 4 obols.
- For price of oil: 1 obol.
- The other expenditure since the 29th:
- Herod[- - -] 2 obols.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3194
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich II Boak AER 1933 123, Recto, col. I Boak AER, PMich II, 123, Recto, col. I, 1933 -- BL III, 107-108 (a, l. 3; 11; 16; b, l. 10; 31; c, l. 6; d, l. 1; 7); BL X, 122 (l. 16); BL XI, 130 (a, l. 14); BL III, 107-108 (a, l. 3; 11; 16; b, l. 10; 31; c, l. 6; d, l. 1; 7); BL X, 122 (l. 16); BL XI, 130 (a, l. 14);
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- U. Wilcken, Archiv 11 (1935) p. 303; J.-L. Fournet, BIFAO 95 (1995) p. 199-200.
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Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 46
- Year End
- 46
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3480 x 4608
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 3195
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