Tax Roll from Philadelphia, columns v-ix
AM 8954 (= SB V 7621), 310 -324 AD
 

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Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side: recto
Material: Papyrus
Items: 1 of 6 pieces
Size: 32.8 x 72 cm
Lines: (v) 15 lines (vi) 22 lines (vii) 12 lines (viii) 21 lines (ix) 12 lines
Negative: Transparency
Conservation Status: Broken both sides.
Status: Published
 
 
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Contents

Date: 310-324 A.D.
Provenance: Philadelphia
Acquisition: AM 8954
Language: Greek.
Genre: Documentary
Author: Unknown
Type of Text/Title of Work: Tax register
Content: Granary receipts, receipts to cover transport dues. Several columns contain receipts for money payments. Half the granary receipts are written by Aurelios Alypios [cols. (vi), (vii), (viii)]; the remainder are by an unknown scribe [cols. (v), (viii), (ix). Tax payments are made for wheat, barley, primipilon, ploion thalassion. All payments in the roll are in the name of Thaeis, daughter of Sarbas, and Harpokration the veteran.
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Information on Publications
 
First Edition
Monograph: A Papyrus Roll in the Princeton University Collection
Author: Kase, E.H.
Year: 1933
Photo: No
 
Second Edition
Series and volume: Archiv 30
Editor: Bagnall, R. S. Worp K. A.
Year: 1984
Pg/Nr: 53-82.
Photo: No