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Papyrus 181

Record Id:

040-002104562

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00036b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 181

Title:

Tax Register (P.Lond. II 181, TM 11644)

Scope & Content:

Fragments of a tax register arranged in columns, each entry listing the tax-payers, with patronymics and matronymics, and the amounts collected stated in drachmas. The sums are multiples of 4, ranging from 4 to 12. An oath testifying to the exactness of the report made by Apollonius is found in Papyrus 181(1), fragment 1, column 2. The payments are made to the public bank and concern the village of Kerkosis.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104562

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 181 : Tax Register (P.Lond. II 181, TM 11644)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0100]/040-002104562

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Three fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres, with the back blank. The fragments are mounted on cardboard in two glass frames, named Papyrus 181(1) and Papyrus 181(2).

Papyrus 181(1): Two fragments: the right fragment contains the ends of the lines of a column and the left portion of another column; the right fragment contains the line endings of a column and two further columns, damaged at the bottom. The last column is also damaged at the right. Part of the upper and lower margins survive, and the space between the columns measures up to 30 mm.

Papyrus 181 (2): one fragment containing parts of three columns; of the first only some of the line endings survive; the second column lacks the beginning; of the third only the beginnings of some lines remain. The surface is damaged throughout, especially to the left and right. The lower margin and the intercolumns survive.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0063

End Date:

0063

Date Range:

8 December 63

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Three fragments of varying size: Papyrus 181(1): left fragment: 147 x 107 mm; right fragment: 143 x 264 mm; Papyrus 181(2): 160 x 182 mm. Housed in two glass cases named Papyrus 181(1) and Papyrus 181(2) measuring 205 x 445 mm and 205 x 270 mm respectively.

Script: Medium-sized cursive hand with some detached letters.

Custodial History:

Origin: Kerkosis, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.

Provenance: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 177-208 from L. Paul Philip on 26 March 1891.

Former External References:

P.Lond. II 181

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 404.

Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 146-148, no. 181.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 254.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 92.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 82.

R. Bogaert, ‘Listes de taxes et banques dans l'Égypte romaine’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 79 (1989), pp. 207-226 (pp. 209, 222).

P. J. Sijpesteijn, in ‘Bemerkungen zu Papyri III. Korr. Tyche’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 5 (1990), pp. 179-182 (p. 180, no. 30).

Z. M. Packman, ‘Regnal formulas in document date and in the imperial oath’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 91 (1992), pp. 61-76 (p. 66).

Th. Kruse, ‘BGU III 981 und der Monat Νερώνειος’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 107 (1995), pp. 85-94 (p. 88).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 126.

T. V. Evans, D. Obbink, The language of the papyri (Oxford -New York: Oxford University Press 2010), p. 128.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Kerkosis, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt