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Papyrus 798
- Record Id:
- 040-002105188
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00003c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463415.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 798
- Title:
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Taxation Accounts (P.Oxy. II 288, P.Lond. III 798 descr., TM 20559)
- Scope & Content:
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Copies of tax receipts recording money payments made over various years by Tryphon and his father Dionysius on account of four taxes: the tax on weaving, the poll tax, the tax on pig and the tax for the maintainance of the dykes. The payments were mostly made through banks. In the extract at the end members of Tryphon’s family are listed with their age.
Lines 1-6: Year 9 of Tiberius, payments made by Tryphon on account of the tax on weaving;
Lines 7-11: Year 9 of Tiberius, payments made by Tryphon on account of poll tax, tax on pigs, and tax for the maintainance of embankments;
Lines 11-15: Year 10 of Tiberius, payments made by Tryphon on account of the tax on weaving.
Lines 16-20: Year 10 of Tiberius, payments made by Tryphon on account of poll tax, tax on pigs, tax on embankments;
Lines 20-24: Year 11 of Tiberius, payments made by Dionysius on account of the tax on weaving.
Lines 25-28: Year 11 of Tiberius, payments made by Tryphon on account of poll tax, tax on pigs, and tax on embankments;
Lines 29-31: Year 8 of Tiberius, payment made by Tryphon on account of the tax on weaving.
Lines 31-34: Year 10 of Tiberius, payments made by Tryphon on account of the tax on weaving;
Line 35-end: copy of an extract from the census declaration listing members of Tryphon’s family and their age.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105188 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 798 : Taxation Accounts (P.Oxy. II 288, P.Lond. III 798 descr., TM 20559) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0871]/040-002105188
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyus sheet, complete but damaged by abrasion and holes, especially in the left half and along the vertical folds; writing is on one side along the fibres, with the back blank. There is one column of 42 lines; all margins are extant, the right being minimal and irregular. The left margin measures 17-23 mm, and the lower 30-35 mm. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0025
- End Date:
- 0025
- Date Range:
- After 22 July 25
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 363 x 180 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 420 x 230 mm.
Script: Thin cursive hand, with a tendency to become less careful, less even, larger and faster.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 739-834 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in October 1900. Of these, papyri 739-814 form part of the discoveries made by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt on the site of the ancient Oxyrhynchus.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 798 descr.
P.Oxy. II 288
Sel.Pap. II 380 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 440.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri II (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1899), pp. 280-284, no. 288.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxxvi, no. 798 descr.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 192-193.
W. L. Westermann, ‘Apprentice Contracts and the Apprentice System in Roman Egypt’, Classical Philology 9 (1914), pp. 295-315 (p. 313).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 320.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 482-485, no. 380.
S. LR. Wallace, Taxation in Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press 1938), p. 404.
M. Hombert, C. Préaux, Recherches sur le Recensement dans l’Égypte Romaine, in Papyrologica Lugduno- Batava (Lugduni Batavorum: E.J. Brill 1952), pp. 48-49.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 58.
M. V. Biscottini, ‘L'archivio di Tryphon tessitore di Oxyrhynchos’, Aegyptus 46 (1966), pp. 60-90, and 186-292 (pp. 74-76, and 190-195, no. 9).
O. Montevecchi, ‘Il censimento romano d'Egitto: precisazioni’, Aevum 50 (1976), pp. 72-84 (pp. 73-74).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 96.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 129.
R. S. Bagnall, B. W. Frier, The demography of Roman Egypt (Cambridge, UK-New York, NY: Cambridge University Press 1994), pp. 4-5,
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 138.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXVIII (London: Egypt Exploration Society 2012), pp. 158-159.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)