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Papyrus 821
- Record Id:
- 040-002105212
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000069
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463508.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 821
- Title:
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Tax Receipt (P.Fay. 43, P.Lond. III 821 descr., TM 10891)
- Scope & Content:
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Tax receipt issued by Harpaesion and Neilus to Acusilaus, son of Acusilaus, acknowledging the payment of 12 drachmas. With Neilus’ subscription and date at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105212 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 821 : Tax Receipt (P.Fay. 43, P.Lond. III 821 descr., TM 10891) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0936]/040-002105212
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete, torn along the edges and with minor surface damage especially in the upper half; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are 6 lines, complete, which occupy the upper half of the sheet. The last line is indented. The upper and lower margins are wide and measure 40 mm and 70 mm respectively. A sheet-join runs across the fibres and along the height of the sheet at c. 25-33 mm from the left edge. The modern annotation in red refers to the edition in P.Fay. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463508.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0028
- End Date:
- -0028
- Date Range:
- 18 August 28 BC?
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 163 x 84 mm; framed in a glass case measuring 220 x 130 mm.
Script: Medium-sized cursive hand, somewhat irregular and uneven; larger and rougher hand for the subscription at the end.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Euhemeria, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Euhemeria, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 739-834 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in October 1900.
- Former External References:
- P.Fay. 43
P.Lond. III 821 descr. - 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.
Fayûm towns and their papyri (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1900), pp. 166-167, no. 43.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. xxxvii, no. 821 descr.
S. LR. Wallace, Taxation in Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press 1938), pp. 97, 116.
A. C. Johnson, L. C. West, Currency in Roman and Byzantine Egypt (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1944), p. 17, n. 20.
D. Rathbone, ‘Egypt, Augustus and roman taxation’, Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz 4 (1993), pp. 81-112 (p. 88).
D. Hagedorn, ‘Zum ägyptischen Kalender unter Augustus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994), pp. 211-222 (p. 222 for the date).
A. Monson, ‘Receipts for "sitônion, syntaxis," and "epistatikon" from Karanis: Evidence for Fiscal Reform in Augustan Egypt?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 191 (2014), pp. 207-230 (p. 208, n. 11).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)