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Name Heracleia, 93-173 Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable) Level [40] File

1. Papyrus 1908

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1908
Title:
Enrolment of new Landowner (P.Fam.Tebt. 25 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 25, TM 10743)
Scope & Content:
The officials of the registers of catoecic land notify another official of the division of Polemon in the Arsinoite nome of the fact that Heracleia, daughter of Hermes, had introduced her cousin Heracleia alias Ninnous as entitled to six aruras of catoecic land, inherited from Cronion.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
25 July-23 August 129
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, broken off to the left, with few insect-holes at the bottom and a break along the vertical fold; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears 13 lines lacking the beginning and occupying the upper half of the sheet. The upper and lower margins are extant, the right is minimal and irregular. The blank space at the bottom measures 120 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

2. Papyrus 1911

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1911
Title:
Land Survey and Tax Receipt (P.Fam.Tebt. 12 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 12, TM 10729)
Scope & Content:
Portions of a land survey (unpublished) on one side; on the other, receipt for payments in kind made to the directors of the granary of Tebtynis (sitologoi) on account of land-taxes by Heracleia on behalf of her father Hermes and a certain Ptolemas, son of Didas, vine-dresser.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
20 August 112
Extent:

Long and narrow papyrus of poor quality, displaying holes and surface damage throughout; written on both sides. On one side, there are portions of 24 lines written along the fibres and lacking the ends; on the other side, there are 21 lines, complete, running across the fibres; margins are extant, the lower being ample. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

3. Papyrus 1953

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1953
Title:
Tax Receipts (P.Fam.Tebt. 39 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 39, TM 10750)
Scope & Content:
Three receipts acknowledging money payments made on account of taxes. Lines 1-9: Receipt issued by the collector of money taxes of Tebtynis to Lysimachus alias Didymus (erroneously called 'son of Didymus') for money payments he made on account of taxes, also to the credit of Heracleia, daughte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
170-172
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, square-shaped, complete, with some insect holes at the bottom; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears 15 lines, complete with blank space between lines 9 and 10, and between lines 13 and 14. Margins survive. Folding lines are still visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

4. Papyrus 1966

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1966
Title:
Appointment of Representative (P.Fam.Tebt. 27 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 27, TM 10745)
Scope & Content:
Heracleia, daughter of Hermes, aged 39, with the assistance of her relative Lysimachus, aged 72, appoints her husband Heraclides alias Valerius as her representative in the sale of a slave girl named Athenarion. Numbered as 26 at the top; with subscriptions of Heracleia written by Lysimachus and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
18 October 132
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, complete; with insect-holes, especially along the folds, and abrasion in places; written on both sides. The front bears 29 lines running along the fibres; margins are extant, with no blank space left on the right. The left margin measures 25 mm and the lower 40 mm. Five vertical folds are still visible. On the back, there are two lines written along the fibres in the upper right corner. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

5. Papyrus 2015

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2015
Title:
Tax Receipt (P.Fam.Tebt. 35 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 35, TM 20964)
Scope & Content:
Receipt issued by the collectors of money taxes (praktores argyrikon) to Heracleia, daughter of Hermes, acknowledging money payments made on account of the naubion-tax (paid for the maintenance of dykes and canals in the land owned by the tax-payer) on catoeci for two years; written after 23 Augu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
c. 154
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, square-shaped, with a few darker patches; incomplete at the bottom; displaying abrasion in places and damage along the vertical folds; written on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 9 lines written in the upper half of the sheet. Margins survive, the lower measuring c.60 mm; no blank space was left on the right. Vertical folds are still visible; a sheet-join runs vertically along the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.