P.Mich.inv. 4172 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 4172
- Processing Number
- 3296
- Section/Side
- Recto, col. 157 (l. 2794-2821)
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- + P.Cair. Inv. 57187; cf. also P.Mich. IV/1, 224 + IV/2, 357 (inv. 4171 + 2830 + 3159 + 4910)
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- col. 157-158: 35.7 x 29.6 cm; total size: ***
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Col. 157: 28 lines
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- Col. 157: badly damaged by a break (papyrus cut off left of col. 157 when housed in glass)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 173-174 A.D.
- Origin
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- Acquired from Nahman in October 1924, through the British Museum; arrived in Ann Arbor in October 1926. (See also inv. 2830; 4171; etc.)
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Unknown tax-collector (Sarapion, son of Sokrates?)
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Tax Roll
- Content
- Tax register, recording the daily collection of money taxes in the village of Karanis; the name of each tax-payer paying the poll-tax is cross-referenced with a page of another register, where taxpayers were listed geographically
- Subject Headings
- Sheep--Financial aspects--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Karanis (Extinct city)--Defenses.
- Real property tax--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Poll tax--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Tax collection--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Women--Taxation--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Guards troops--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Syros son of Heras (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 231);
- Imties (Emties) (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 163);
- Apis son of Petheus grandson of Protion (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 152);
- Thaisarin (Thaisarion) daughter of Irenaios (Eirenaios);
- Diodoros son of Hatres (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 162);
- Mystharion [son of Diodoros] and Zoidous grandson of Hatres (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 188);
- Sisois son of [. . .] and Didyme grandson of Petheus;
- Chairemon son of Nekpheraus and Chairemonis grandson of Euemeros (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 247);
- Aphrodisios son of Onnophris and Ptolema grandson of Pnepheros (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 157);
- Mysthes son of Patkonnis and Ptolema grandson of Harobros (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 189);
- Ptolemaios son of Naaraus amd Taorsenouphis grandson of Horion (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 217-218);
- Ptolemaios son of Mysthes (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 217);
- Pallas (see Geographica);
- Iucundus (see Geographica);
- Chresimos (see Geographica);
- Sarap(--) (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 234);
- [Petaus son of Petheus] and Stiynchis grandson of Petesouchos (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 81 and 209)
- Geographica
- (ousia) Pallantos (proteron) Ioukoundou kai Chresimou (estate of Pallas, formerly of Iucundus and Chresimos); [- - -]ane ousia
- Translation
- (Col.) 157
- (Mesore 4, continued)
- Syrus, son of Heras - (through) Imties - [for garden land] of year 13: for apomoira, 2 drachmai 5 1/2 obols; for olive (transportation), 2 1/2 obols; for naubion, 2 obols; for supplements, 4 1/2 obols; for eparourion, 2 drachmai; for supplements, 1 obol; for kollybos, 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi. Total: 6 drachmai 4 obols 2 chalkoi.
- And for Apis, son of Petheus, grandson of Protion, [for garden land] of year [13]: for apomoira, 2 drachmai 3 obols; for olive (transportation), 2 obols 2 chalkoi; for naubion, 1 1/2 obols; for supplements, 3 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; [for eparourion], 1 drachme 4 obols; for supplements, 1 obol; for kollybos, 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi. Total: 5 drachmai 4 obols 2 chalkoi.
- And for Thaisaris, daughter of Irenaios, [for garden land] of year [13]: for apomoira, 2 drachmai 3 obols; for olive (transportation), 2 obols 2 chalkoi; for naubion, 1 1/2 obols; for supplements, 3 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; [for eparourion], 1 drachme 4 obols; for supplements, 1 obol; for kollybos, 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi. Total: 5 drachmai 4 obols 2 chalkoi. (In left margin: [16] drachmai [27 obols].)
- Diodoros, son of Hatres - (through) Mystharion, son of Diodoros - for garden land [of year 13]: for apomoira, 5 drachmai 1 obol; for olive (transportation), 4 1/2 obols; for naubion, 3 obols 2 chalkoi; for supplements, 1 drachme 2 obols; for eparourion, [3] drachmai [2] 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; for supplements, 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; for kollybos, 1 obol 2 chalkoi. Total: 11 drachmai 4 1/2 obols. (In left margin: 12 drachmai 2 obols.)
- Mystharion, [son of Diodoros] and Zoidous, grandson of Hatres, for the salary of the guards and for the guard towers: 8 drachmai
- Sisois, son of [. . .] and Didyme, grandson of Petheus, for ch(--): 8 drachmai
- Chairemon, son of Nekpheraus and Chairemonis, grandson of Euemeros: 36 drachmai
- Total for the day: 132 drachmai 16 obols.
- On the 15th, similarly:
- Aphrodisios, son of Onnophris and Ptolema, grandson of Pnepheros, for ch(--): 4 drachmai
- Mysthes, son of Patkonnis and Ptolema, grandson of Harobros, for the guard towers: 4 drachmai
- Ptolemaios, son of Naaraus amd Taorsenouphis, grandson of Horion, for ch(--): 4 drachmai
- Ptolemaios, son of Mysthes, for the rental of sheep of year 14, 'for Karanis', for the estate of Pallas, formerly of Iucundus and Chresimos: [707 drachmai] 4 obols; for supplements: 45 drachmai 5 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi. Total: 753 drachmai 3 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi.
- [And for the] estate [of - - -: 40 drachmai]; for supplements: 2 drachmai 4 obols. Total: 42 drachmai 4 obols. (In left margin: 800 drachmai, of which a deposit of Sarap(--): 500 drachmai.)
- [Petaus, son of Petheus] and Stiynchis, grandson of Petesouchos: 4 drachmai; (and) for ch(--): 4 drachmai.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3263
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich IV/1 Youtie HC 1936 225, col. 157 (l. 2794-2821) Youtie HC, PMich IV/1, 225, col. 157 (l. 2794-2821), 1936
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- General bibliography on the tax rolls:
- H.C. Youtie - O.M. Pearl, AJPh 57 (1936) p. 465-469; H.C. Youtie, Classical Weekly 30 (1937) p. 199-201 [= Scriptiunculae II (Amsterdam, 1973) p. 851-857, with addenda]; L.C. West - A.C. Johnson, Currency in Roman and Byzantine Egypt (Princeton, 1944) p. 20; 53-58; V.B. Schuman, CP 44 (1949) p. 236-239; D.S. Crawford, CP 45 (1950) p. 185-186; V.B. Schuman, CP 46 (1951) p. 34-36; V.B. Schuman, CP47 (1952) p. 214-218; V.B. Schuman, Aegyptus 32 (1952) p. 241-252; V.B. Schuman, Aegyptus 39 (1959) p. 223-225; V.B. Schuman, CE 38 (1963) p. 306, n. 2; C.Pap.Jud. III, No. 492; H.C. Youtie, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Papyrology (Toronto, 1970) p. 545-551 [= Scriptiunculae II (Amsterdam, 1973) p. 1035-1041]; H.C Youtie, ZPE 13 (1974) p. 238-239; H.C. Youtie, ZPE 15 (1974) p. 117-141; V.B. Schuman, BASP 12 (1975) p. 23-58; P.Cair.Mich. 359, introduction; J.C. Shelton, BASP 14 (1983) p. 83-93; V.B. Schuman, Archiv 29 (1983) p. 41-57; P. van Minnen, ZPE 100 (1994) p. 244-246
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- 173
- Year End
- 174
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- 3296
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