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Papyrus 1562

Record Id:

040-003780447

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100114836486.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147470115.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 1562

Title:

Accounts (SB XVI 12695, TM 17450, 93096)

Scope & Content:

Recto: Presumably an account roll of official nature, of which a portion survives, possibly dating from 102-117 (unpublished).

Verso: Annual summary submitted by supervisors (epiteretai) of the farmed taxes levied on a market in Oxyrhynchus. The account includes a heading, the tariff on the rates of taxes on traders and crafts (e.g. bakers, wood-sellers, olive-sellers, clothes- and shoe-makers, tinsmiths), totals of receipts per month and total for the year; in the small column in the right margin, totals for various years are given. Dated some time after 29 August 143.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-003780447

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 1562 : Accounts (SB XVI 12695, TM 17450, 93096)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[2172]/040-003780447

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Fragment of a medium-brown papyrus roll, written on both sides. On the front, there are the endings of lines from one column, written along the fibres; on the back, there is one column, complete and running across the fibres; another small column was written in the right margin. All margins are extant. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0100

End Date:

0149

Date Range:

1st half of 2nd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: 355 x 120 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 410 x 170 mm.

Script: Recto: Large official cursive hand, with additions in another hand. Verso: Rapid cursive hand.

Custodial History:

Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.

Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.

Former External References:

SB XVI 12695

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.

Recto

John R. Rea, ‘P. Lond. Inv. 1562 Verso: Market Taxes in Oxyrhynchus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 46 (1982), 191-209 (p. 192).

Verso

Sherman LR. Wallace, Taxation in Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1938), pp. 221.

John R. Rea, ‘P. Lond. Inv. 1562 Verso: Market Taxes in Oxyrhynchus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 46 (1982), 191-209, with plates.

Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XVI (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1985), no. 12695.

Itzhak F. Fikhman, ‘State and Prices in Byzantine Egypt’, Scripta Classica Israelica 11 (1991/2), 139-48 (p. 141).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 385.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), pp. 289-290.

Fik Meijer, Onno van Nijf, Trade, transport and society in the ancient world: a sourcebook (New York: Routledge, 1992), pp. 78-79.

Allard W. Mees, Organisationsformen römischer Töpfer-Manufakturen am Beispiel von Arezzo und Rheinzabern: unter Berücksichtigung von Papyri, Inschriften und Rechtsquellen (Bonn: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums in Kommission bei R. Habelt, 2002), p. 397.

Matthew Gibbs, ‘Trade associations in Roman Egypt: their "raison d'être"’, Ancient Society 41 (2011), 291-315 (p. 305, and passim).

John S. Kloppenborg, Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt. Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentary (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2020), pp. 428-36 (with further bibliography).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt