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Papyrus 1586(A-C)
- Record Id:
- 040-003780620
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100115363328.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470140.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1586(A-C)
- Title:
- Tax Receipts and Certificate for Five-Day Work (TM 14291, 43199, 43215)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper fragment (A) (SB XXII 15707, TM 43215): Receipt issued by the sitologi of Nilopolis for the payment of six artabas of wheat made to the account of Apynchis, son of Apynchis, of Soknopaiou Nesos, for public taxes. Dated 19 August 194.
Middle fragment (B) (SB VIII 9864, TM 14291): Certificate issued to Panephremmis, son of Pausiris, for the five-day work (penthemeros) he performed on the dykes. Dated 14 July 107.
Lower fragment (C) (SB XXII 15486, TM 43199): Receipt issued by the collectors of the artisans’ tax to Panephremmis, son of Pausiris, a weaver, and his sons for their payments made for the artisans’ tax. Dated 22 April 128.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003780620 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1586(A-C) : Tax Receipts and Certificate for Five-Day Work (TM 14291, 43199, 43215) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2191]/040-003780620
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Three papyrus sheets that do not belong together, mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
Upper fragment (A): Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete, written on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 5 lines written along the fibres. All margins are extant, the lower being irregular.
Middle fragment (B): Medium-brown papyrus sheet, imperfect at the bottom and with some surface damage; written on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 9 lines written along the fibres. Upper and right margins are extant; no margin on the left.
Lower fragment (C): Medium-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom and with some surface damage; written on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 12 lines written along the fibres, and traces of another line at the bottom. Upper and left margins are extant; no margin was left to the right.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0107
- End Date:
- 0194
- Date Range:
- 107-194
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 62 x 110 mm; B: 70 x 60 mm; C: 78 x 87 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 295 x 165 mm.
Script: Rapid cursive hands on all three papyri.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite 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 VIII 9864
SB XXII 15486
SB XXII 15707 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 311.
A
Deborah Hobson, ‘A Sitologos Receipt from Soknopaiou Nesos’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 99 (1993), 73-74, with plate xiii(a).
Bärbel Kramer, ‘Urkundenreferat’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 40 (1994), 177-227 (p. 226).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XXII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2001), no. 15707.
Régis Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus: vie quotidienne (Paris: Pygmalion, 2003), pp. 132-33, no. 72.
B
Pieter J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Les certificats de penthemeros au premier siècle de notre ère’, Chronique d'Égypte, 37 (1962), 342-47 (pp. 345-46).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1967), no. 9864.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), pp. 202-03.
W. Graham Claytor, ‘Two Penthemeros Certificates from the Papers of a Weaving Family’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 206 (2018), 179–82 (p. 179).
C
Deborah Hobson, ‘Receipt for χειρoνάζιoν’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 23 (1993), 75-92.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XXII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2001), no. 15486.
Bärbel Kramer, ‘Urkundenreferat’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 41 (1995), 273-333 (p. 315).
W. Graham Claytor, ‘Two Penthemeros Certificates from the Papers of a Weaving Family’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 206 (2018), 179–82 (p. 179).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)