P.Mich.inv. 4172

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 4172

Processing Number

3319

Section/Side

Recto, col. 192 (l. 3218-3248)

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. 191-192 (left side): 18.9 x 27.8 cm; col. 192 (right side): 6.4 x 26.7 cm; total size: ***

Items

2

Lines

col. 192: 31 lines

Mounted

Yes

Negative

No

Conservation Status

Broken off in the middle (and on the left of col. 191); cut off on the right 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

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)

Persons

Ta[. . . daughter of - - -];

P[- - -];

Sa[- - -];

Ptolemaios [- - -];

Horos son of Satabous [and Theonis grandson of Horos] (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 250);

Pakysis son of Phasis(?) [and Tanomgeus grandson of Esouris] (see P.Mich. IV/2, p. 74 and 196);

Ptollas [- - -];

Heron son of P[- - -];

Art[- - -];

Horos [- - -]

Translation

[(Col.) 192]

(Hadrianou 19th, continued)

Ta[. . ., daughter of - - -, (through) - - -, for garden land of year 13: for apomoira, 7 drachmai 3 1/2 obols; for olive (transportation), 1 drachme 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi; for naubion, 4 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; for supplements, 1 drachme] 5 1/2 obols; for eparourion, [5 drachmai 1/2 obol; for supplements, 3 obols; for kollybos, 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi]. Total: 17 drachmai 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi.

And for P[- - -], 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 [- - -], for garden land of year 13: for apomoira, [2 drachmai 1 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi; for olive (transportation), 2 obols; for naubion, 1 1/2 obols; for supplements, 3 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi]; for eparourion, 1 drachme [3 obols; for supplements, 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi; for kollybos, 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi. Total]: 5(?) [drachmai] 1 1/2 obols.

The same [- - -], for garden land of [year] 13: [for apomoira, 3 drachmai 4 1/2 obols; for olive (transportation), 3 obols 2 chalkoi; for naubion, 2 obols 2 chalkoi; for supplements, 5 1/2 obols 2 chalkoi]; for eparourion, [2 drachmai 2 obols 2 chalkoi; for supplements, 1 obol 2 chalkoi; for kollybos, 1 obol. Total]: 8 drachmai 2 obols 2 chalkoi.

And for Sa[- - -], for garden land of [year] 13: [for apomoira, - - -; for olive (transportation), - - -; for naubion, - - -; for supplements, - - -]; for eparourion, [. .] drachme [. . .; for supplements, - - -; for kollybos, - - -. Total]: 4 [drachmai] 4 1/2 obols. (In left margin: 44 drachmai.)

Ptolemaios [- - -]

Total [for the day: - - -]

On the 20th, similarly:

Horos, son of Satabous [and Theonis, grandson of Horos: - - -]

Pakysis, son of Phasis(?) [and Tanomgeus, grandson of Esouris, for ch(--): - - -]

Ptollas [- - -]

Heron, son of P[- - -]

[Total for the day: - - -]

On the 21st, similarly:

Art[- - -]

[- - -]

Horos [- - -]

[- - -] (In left margin: 52 drachmai 5 obols]

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3263

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich IV/1	Youtie HC	1936	225, col. 192 (l. 3218-3248)	Youtie HC, PMich IV/1, 225, col. 192 (l. 3218-3248), 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

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

173

Year End

174

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Record

3319

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3319/1 content_copy