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Papyrus 2478
- Record Id:
- 040-002105512
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00019e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124684.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2478
- Title:
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Account of Crown-Tax (P.Oxy. XIV 1659, TM 21961)
- Scope & Content:
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Account of sums for crown-tax collected in the Oxyrhynchite nome and relating to the 10th-14th of the month of Hathyr in an unknown year of Elagabalus. First listed are the payments made through the public bank of Oxyrhynchus, then those made through the tax collectors or their agents. These latter payments are arranged on the basis of the six toparchies of the Oxyrhynchite nome.
Column 1, lines 1-3 or 1-4: Heading.
Column 1, line 3 or 4-line 8: Payments in Oxyrhynchus through the public bank.
Column 1, line 9: Payment in Oxyrhynchus.
Column 1, line 10 - Column 3, line 19: Payments through tax collectors or their agents in the nome.
Column 3, lines 20-24: Totals of sums received and due on the basis of the assessment of the amount due in each month, and arrangements made for the sums in excess. Lines 22-24 were cancelled.
Column 3, lines 25-29: List of sums credited to the Hermopolite nome.
Column 3, line 30: Final total.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105512 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2478 : Account of Crown-Tax (P.Oxy. XIV 1659, TM 21961) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1316]/040-002105512
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Dark-brown papyrus fragments of varying size, with ten scraps that remain unplaced on the left-hand side of the frame. Three columns written along the fibres are preserved, the first being very fragmentary; the back is blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124684.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0218
- End Date:
- 0221
- Date Range:
- 218-221
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 350 x 425 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 400 x 470 mm.
Script: Experienced and neat cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2435-2485 by the Egypt Exploration Society on 18 July 1922.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. XIV 1659
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 366.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part XIV (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1920), pp. 104-114, no. 1659.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 467.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 139.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 62.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 79.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 103.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 140.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 248.
J. D. Thomas, ‘Notes on Papyri Relating to Claudia Isidora Also Called Apia’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 41 (2004), pp. 139-153 (p. 143).
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. LXX (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 2006), p. 60, 1-2 n.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)