160
M. Peachin
a [X6]yoc nRvOanipou from several nTLTfiTn~TL to a strategos, and
P. Oxy. XVII 2116 mentions EevxOnuipouc 1youg sent from the ~rLTripnrTaLt oTurTnl[p1c]ac of Oxyrhynchus to the iLTfnpnTlrl T YEPLouVLXC[v]
rTXo[C]ov. Indeed, the TnLTrnpnrTal often make penthemeral reports
to higher officials (e.g. P. Oslo III 89, 90, 91, PSI VII 735, BGU
II 478, U. and D. Hagedorn, P. CoZl. Youtie I 31), which frequently
contain the phrase ylvovTrLL Tf T Eve(nipou/nuepLa').4 Clearly, a
form of the word TtEv~O~Ta po does not in itself attest the penthemeros corv4e. This, in turn, will help to explain two other papyri
which have seemed to attest the penthemeros corvee outside the
Arsinoite Nome.
P. Giss. I 64--with the phrase nrapd XOWaTERnTL4EXT1cV X6Yov
nevOnui(pwv)--and SB VI 9626--with the phrase [To6~] ILuOXa[vTaI]
LOL REVaOn5Upou [TWiv] [xco]WUTLXH[]V K t 6L)0pUXLx0uv py[v]--should
now be read in this light. They do not refer to the penthemeros
corvee, which does not occur outside the Arsinoite Nome, but instead to penthemeral reports.
The present papyrus (along with P. Oxy. XLIX 3475) may also be
useful in helping to clarify what has appeared to be some kind of
relationship between the penthemeros and naubion corvees. J.G.
Milne suggested long ago that the penthemeros corvie corresponded
to five naubia of work at the rate of one naubion performed daily.6
This theory was rejected by P.J. Sijpesteijn, who argued that the
penthemeros was entirely distinct from naubion corv4e.7 Since
Sijpesteijn's book, two papyri have been published which indicate
again some sort of relationship between a factor of five and the
naubion duties. P. Oxy. XXXVIII 2847 says that 1XOaTOC TCr
4 The phrase is usually restored neve(nupt~ci), although the
Hagedorns print rTEvO(iLpou), loc. cit. Sijpesteijn (Penthemeros
Certificates 1 n.l) argues against the existence of the word
rSV &T 11IE P Cct.
5 On P. Giss. I 64, Sijpesteijn, Penthemeros Certificates 1-2
and idem, Aegyptus 44 (1964) 11. On SB VI 9626, Sijpesteijn, Penthemeros Certificates 1-2 and M.H. Eliassen-de Kat, Actes du XVe
Congres International de Papyrologie (Bruxelles 1979) 116-23.
6 0. Theb. pp. 146-7 and Archiv 6 (1920) 133. Also, Youtie,
TAPA 73 (1942) 80 n.64 = Scriptunculae I 145.
7 Sijpesteijn, Penthemeros Certificates 18.
