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Papyrus 1169

Record Id:
040-002105262
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002104451
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000095
LARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100143122662.0x000001
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1169
Title:

Customs Register (P.Customs 573-647, P.Lond. III 1169, TM 28559)

Scope & Content:

Register of payments made at the customs house of Soknopaiou Nesos for imported an exported commodities on various months.

Column 1

Lines 7-8: Payment of 2 drachmas and 4 obols for import of wine (P.Customs 573);

Lines 9-11: Payment for import of wine (P.Customs 574);

Lines 12-14: Two payments of 33 drachmas and 2 obols each for export of oil on two camels in each case (P.Customs 575-576);

Lines 15-17: Payment of 5 drachmas and 2 obols for import of wine (P.Customs 577);

Lines 18-19: Payment of 41 drachmas and 4 obols for export of oil on two camels and one donkey (P.Customs 578);

Lines 20-21: Payment for import of a male donkey (P.Customs 579);

Column 2

Lines 1-4: Three payments of 8 drachmas and 2 obols, 33 drachmas and 2 obols and 8 drachmas and 2 obols respectively for export of oil on one donkey, two camels and one donkey respectively (P.Customs 580-582);

Line 2: Payment of 33 drachmas and 2 obols for export of oil on two camels (P.Customs 581);

Lines 5-8: Total and beginning of the record for Phaophi;

Line 9: Payment of 16 drachmas and 4 obols for export of oil on one camel (P.Customs 583);

Line 10: Payment of 25 drachmas for export of oil on one camel and one donkey (P.Customs 584);

Line 11-12: Payment of 16 drachmas and 4 obols for export of oil on one camel (P.Customs 585);

Line 13: Payment of 8 drachmas and 2 obols for export of oil on one donkey (P.Customs 586);

Line 14: Payment of 8 drachmas for import of wine on three camels (P.Customs 587);

Line 15: Payment of 16 drachmas and 4 obols for export of oil on two donkeys (P.Customs 588);

Line 16: Payment of 8 drachmas and 2 obols for export of oil on one donkey (P.Customs 589);

Line 17: Payment of 8 drachmas and 2 obols for export of oil on one donkey (P.Customs 590);

Lines 18-19: Two payments of 2 drachmas and 4 obols each for import of wine (P.Customs 591-592);

Lines 20-22: Two payments of 16 drachmas and 4 obols each for export of oil on one camel and one donkey respectively (P.Customs 593-594);

Line 23: Payment of 14 drachmas and 4 obols for export of oil on two donkeys (P.Customs 595);

Line 24-end: Payment of 10 drachmas and 4 obols for import of wine (P.Customs 596).

Column 3

Lines 1-5: Total and heading for Athyr;

Line 6: Payment of 8 drachmas and 2 obols for export of oil on one donkey (P.Customs 597);

Lines 7-8: Two payments of 16 drachmas and 4 obols each for export of oil on one camel and two donkeys respectively (P.Customs 598-599);

Line 9-10: Payment of 33 drachmas and 2 obols for export of oil on two camels (P.Customs 600);

Line 11: Payment of 8 drachmas and 2 obols for export of oil on one donkey (P.Customs 601);

Lines 12-15: Two payments of 16 drachmas and 4 obols each for export of oil on one camel (P.Customs 602-603);

Line 16: Payment of 50 drachmas for export of oil on three camels (P.Customs 604);

Line 17: Payment of 16 drachmas and 4 obols for export of oil on one camel (P.Customs 605);

Lines 18-20: Two payments of 33 drachmas and 2 obols each for export of oil on two camels each (P.Customs 606-607);

Line 21: Payment of 16 drachmas and 4 obols for export of oil on two donkeys (P.Customs 608);

Lines 22-23: Two payments of 25 drachmas each for export of oil on one camel and one donkey in the first case and 3 donkeys in the second (P.Customs 609-610);

Line 24-end: Two payments of 8 drachmas and 2 obols each for export of oil on one donkey in each case (P.Customs 611-612).

Column 4

Lines 1-4: Three payments of 32, 24 and 4 drachmas respectively for import of fine salt on 8, 6 and 2 camels respectively (P.Customs 613-615);

Lines 5-9: Total;

Lines 10-13: Record for Choiach. Payment of 16 drachmas and 4 obols for export of oil on two donkeys (P.Customs 616);

Line 14: Payment of 33 drachmas and 2 obols for export of oil on two camels (P.Customs 617);

Lines 15-16: Two payments of 2 drachmas and 4 obols each for export of oil (P.Customs 618-619);

Lines 17-18: Payment of 33 drachmas and 2 obols for export of oil on one camel and two donkeys (P.Customs 620);

Lines 19-23: Two payments of 5 drachmas and 2 obols and 2 drachmas and 4 obols respectively for import of wine (P.Customs 621-622);

Line 24-end: Four payments of 2 drachmas and 4 obols each on pressed dates transported on one donkey in each case (P.Customs 623-626).

Column 5

Lines 1-4: Three payments of 33 drachmas and 2 obols, 41 drachmas and 4 obols, 33 drachmas and 2 obols and respectively, for export of oil on two camels, two camels and one donkey, and one camel and one donkey respectively respectively (P.Customs 627-629);

Lines 5-9: Total.

Lines 10-14: Record for Tybi. Payment of 70 drachmas and 5 obols for export of oil on four camels and one donkey (P.Customs 630);

Lines 15-19: Five payments of 8 drachmas and 2 obols each for export of oil on one donkey (P.Customs 631-635);

Lines 20-21: Payment of 2 drachmas and 4 obols for import of wine (P.Customs 636);

Line 22: Payment of 33 drachmas and 2 obols for export of oil on two camels (P.Customs 637);

Lines 23-26: Three payments of 25 drachmas each for export of oil, in each case on one camel and one donkey (P.Customs 638-640);

Line 27-end: Payment of 33 drachmas and 2 obols on export of oil on two camels (P.Customs 641).

Column 6

Lines 1-4: Total;

Lines 5-13: Record for Mecheir. Six payments of 33 drachmas and 2 obols, 50 drachmas, 16 drachmas and 4 obols, 8 drachmas and 4 obols, 33 drachmas and 2 obols, and 33 drachmas and 2 obols respectively for export of oil on two camels, three camels, two donkeys, one donkey, two camels and two camels respectively (P.Customs 642-647).

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002104451
040-002105262
Is part of:
Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

 

Papyrus 1169 : Customs Register (P.Customs 573-647, P.Lond. III 1169, TM 28559)
Hierarchy:
032-002104451[0456]/040-002105262
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:

Papyrus roll, broken off at the left and damaged by holes and other surface damage especially in the left portion; the right half is better preserved. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. 6 columns are preserved, the first of which is fragmentary. Upper, lower and right margins survive; sheet-joins running along the height of the roll are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

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Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Scripts:
Greek
Start Date:
0100
End Date:
0299
Date Range:
2nd century-3rd century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: 210 x 646 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 260 x 690 mm.

Script: Regular small cursive hand.

Custodial History:

Origin: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.

Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 884-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.

Former External References:
P.Customs 573-647
P.Lond. III 1169
Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 442.

Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London, 1907), pp. 43-47, no. 1169.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 275.

N. Y. Clauson, ‘A Customs House Registry from Roman Egypt (P. Wisconsin 16)’, Aegyptus 9 (1928), pp. 240-280 (p. 240 and passim).

P. J. Sijpesteijn, Customs Duties in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Zutphen: Terra 1987), pp. 73-74, 130-131, 179-180, no. 573-596, with pl. xviii; pp. 130-133, no. 597-647 descr.

C. GallazzI, P. J. Sijpesteijn, 'Receipts Issued to an Overseer of a Customs Station', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 78 (1989), pp. 119–122.

P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘A Money-Account of Customs Duties?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 78 (1989), pp. 100–102.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 140.

H.Parkins, C. J. Smith, Trade, Traders, and the Ancient City (London-New York: Routledge 1998), pp. 177-179.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 103.

C. E. P. Adams, Land transport in Roman Egypt: a study of economics and administration in a Roman province (New York: Oxford Univ. Press 2010), p. 248.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Places:
Soknopaiou Nesos, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt