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Papyrus 799
- Record Id:
- 040-002105189
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000047
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463425.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 799
- Title:
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Taxation Account (P.Oxy. II 289, P.Lond. III 799 descr., TM 20560)
- Scope & Content:
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Copies of receipts of tax payments, mostly made by Thoonis, son of Thoonis, through the bank, in various years, from 12th of Nero to 8th year of Vespasian. The payments were made on account of various taxes (poll-tax, tax on pig, tax for the maintainance of the embankments).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105189 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 799 : Taxation Account (P.Oxy. II 289, P.Lond. III 799 descr., TM 20560) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0873]/040-002105189
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of a papyrus roll, broken along the horizontal fold, darkened in places, especially to the left, and with surface damage throughout; it breaks off to the right. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, with the back being blank. The text is arranged in two columns, separated by approximately 13-25 mm. From line 11, the first column comprises two columns, of which the first has 4 short lines, and the second 7 lines. Upper and left margins are extant. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463425.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0083
- End Date:
- 0083
- Date Range:
- 26 January 83
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 216 x 530 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 270 x 585 mm.
Script: Thin, large, rapid cursive hand, rougher in the lower parts.
- 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 799 descr.
P.Oxy. II 289 - 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. 284-288, no. 289.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxxvi, no. 799 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 320-321.
W. F. Snyder, ‘Progress Report on the 'Ημέραι Σεβασταί’, Aegyptus 44 (1964), pp. 145-169 (p. 157).
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. Bogaert, ‘Listes de taxes et banques dans l'Égypte romaine’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 79 (1989), pp. 207-226 (pp. 225 and passim).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 235.
M. Depauw, ‘Do Mothers Matter? The Emergence of Metronymics in Early Roman Egypt’, in T. V. Evans, D. Obbink (eds.), The Language of the Papyri (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2010), pp. 120-139 (p. 128).
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXVIII (London: Egypt Exploration Society 2012), pp. 158-159.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)