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Papyrus 255

Record Id:

040-002104628

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003bf

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100143124983.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 255

Title:

Certificate (P.Lond. II 255, Chrest.Wilck. 272, TM 11656)

Scope & Content:

The elders of the village of Karanis have appointed Horion, son of Horion, as their deputy for collecting the tax on beer and sheep in the village, and confirm that he has performed his duty and paid the sums collected into the appropriate banks.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104628

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 255 : Certificate (P.Lond. II 255, Chrest.Wilck. 272, TM 11656)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0147]/040-002104628

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Papyrus sheet, complete, somewhat damaged along the vertical folds, with surface damage in the middle, along the height of the sheet. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The text is complete and consists of 26 lines; all margins are extant, with no margin having been left to the right; the blank space at the bottom measures 47 mm, the upper margin 25 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0136

End Date:

0136

Date Range:

28 September-27 October 136

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: 225 x 100 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 280 x 150 mm.

Script: Medium-sized, thin cursive hand, with a tendency for lines to incline upwards.

Custodial History:

Origin: Karanis, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome Egypt.

Provenance: Karanis, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 229-255 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 14 January 1893.

Former External References:

Chrest.Wilck. 272
P.Lond. II 255

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 416.

Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 117-118, no. 255, with pl. 49.

U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien: ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte I (Leipzig-Berlin: Gieseke & Devrient, 1899), pp. 608, 613.

U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 122-177 (p. 149).

L. Wenger, Die Stellvertretung im Rechte der Papyri (Leipzig: Teubner 1906), p. 75.

F. Hohmann, Zur Chronologie der Papyrusurkunden (Römische Kaiserzeit) (Berlin: F. Siemenrot 1911), p. 8.

U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 320-321, no. 242.

F. F. Abbott, A. C. Johnson, Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1926), pp. 519-520, no. 171.

S. LR. Wallace, Taxation in Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press 1938), p. 386.

J. Hengstl, Private Arbeitsverhältnisse freier Personen in den hellenistischen Papyri bis Diokletian (Bonn: Habelt [in Komm.] 1972), p. 72.

R. Bogaert, ‘Listes de taxes et banques dans l'Égypte romaine’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 79 (1989), pp. 207-226 (p. 213).

G. Klingenberg, ‘Die rechtsgeschäftliche Übertragung von Zwangsarbeit im römischen Ägypten’, Revue internationale des droits de l'antiquité 36 (1989), pp. 281-349 (pp. 291, 293).

B. Palme, Das Amt des ἀπαιτητής in Ägypten (Wien: Hollinek 1989), p. 152.

A. Jördens, Vertragliche Regelungen von Arbeiten im späten griechischsprachigen Ägypten (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag 1990, pp. 185, 197, 201.

M. Blume, Review of 'Gabriella Messeri Savorelli, Griechische Texte XI. Papiri greci di Socnopaiu Nesos e dell’Arsinoites. Vienne, Verlag Brüder Hollinek, 1990. Textband', Chronique d'Égypte 68 (1993), pp. 268-274 (p. 270).

R. Bogaert, ‘Liste géographique des banques et des banquiers de l’Égypte romaine, 30a-284’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 109 (1995), pp. 133-173 (p. 147).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 98.

F. Mitthof, Corpus papyrorum Raineri archeducis Austriae; Bd. 23. Griechische Texte. XVI, Neue Dokumente aus dem römischen und spätantiken Ägypten zu Verwaltung und Reichsgeschichte (1.-7. Jh. n. Chr.) (Wien: Verlag Brüder Hollinek 2002), p. 57.

F. Reiter, Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites: Ein Beitrag zum Steuerwesen im römischen Ägypten (Paderborn: F. Schöningh 2004), pp. 154, 160, 362.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Horion, elder (presbyteros) in Karanis, 1st half of 2nd century

Places:

Karanis, Egypt