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Further Papyri from the British MuseumAuthor(s): Revel A. ColesSource: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 56 (Aug., 1970), pp. 183-186Published by: Egypt Exploration SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3856053.

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(183)

FURTHER

PAPYRI FROM

THE

BRITISH

MUSEUM

By

REVEL A. COLES

THE

two

papyri

following

are

the

last to

be

published

from a

group

of

eleven texts

entrusted to me in

I96I

by

the

Trustees

of the

British Museum for the

purposes

of

my

doctoral thesis.

These

two were not

in

fact included

therein;

the nine

that were

have since

appeared

in

this

Journal (52 (I966), I29

ff.,

and

53 (I967),

121

ff.).

Pro-

visional

transcripts

had been

made

by

Bell

of some of the texts in

the

group,

but not

of

these

last

two.

Both

originate

from the

Faiyum.

The

versos

of

both

texts,

which have

been mounted

in such a

way

that

I have not been

able to examine

them,

may

be

presumed

to

be blank.

I.

RECEIPT

FOR CORN-TRANSPORT FEES

P. Lond. Inv.

2420

IO

X

215

cm.

A.D.

135

A

receipt

addressed to

the

sitologi

from a

private

donkey-driver

for

payment

of

transportation

fees in

kind;

see

the discussion

of

Westermann

and

Keyes,

Tax-Lists

and

Transportation

Receipts

from Theadelphia, 98-II4, esp. I05-7

on

the

question

of

payment

of

the

fees

in

kind

or

in

money;

Borner,

Staatl.

Korntransport,4-I6.

Further

references

are

given

by

Youtie,

TAPA

8I

(I950),

IOI.

The main

body

of the

text

is written

in a

very

cursive

hand;

I

am

grateful

to

Dr.

John

Rea for

a

number

of

readings.

The date

(11.17-18)

is written

even more

cursively

but is not necessarilyin a differenthand. I am also grateful to Mr. P. J. Parsons for a

discussion on

interpretation.

CELroAoyoLC

wCL'rC

tLAaSEAcELaac.

ApTraAoc Aprirdov

iS8CiLKoc

KT7r]VvTpObOC

K

'L7C

(LAaocAE

c

Eac'

aTrExo

rap'

Viu,v

rac erncraAEL-

5

cac

iAoL

rTO

ApXtov

crp(arTyovo)

Ka

.

Eptelv'o'(v)

flac(LALKo) yp(au,arTE'wc)

'HpaKAEI0ov

v;rrep

boAErpo''(v)

ov K~arT7ra

aro

q?7[cav]pwyv

cC

OPC

O'(v)

'KEPK?C'

Sr7LOClOV

rrVpoV

KaL

EvEfaAd6Lrlv

a..p..... eLc7rAota leyaAov

t o

(

~,

),,

10

7roTralov

rac

cvvayo( evac)

E7rL

T

avTO

(7rvpov)

(aprTaac)

tyyg

tLETcara

o

vroAoyr70(Ev)

VIrrp 8Ltao6pov ohA(Erpov)

(apTracqCc)

L'fl'

'ac

AoL(trac)

aTro

yEv7(LaTroc)

LE

(Erovc) AlpLavovi

Kaicapoc

Tov

KVplOV

ErTL

Oqrcavpov3

Trjc

KW).LT)C '7TaK[o]A(ovOV'vTWv)

15

rJv

EYtLETp7rTWV

dpTr

3(ac)

sEKa-

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rpELc

rpirov,

(ytvovtra)

(apTr3at) vyy'

(E7rOVC)

K

AV7roKpcaropoc

Kaicapoc

TpaLavov

AS4ptavov

Cef/acrovY,

Oac

.t

^7.

(2nd hand)

AprraAoc ApTrdaov adTrr'X

20

Ka0LOc

7TpoKEtTat.

3.

K

of

Kc),L7-q

orr.

Io.

T of

raS

apparently

corr.

from 8.

Translation

To

the

sitologi

of the

village

of

Philadelphia.

I,

Harpalus

son

of

Harpalus, private

donkey-driver,

rom

the

village

of

Philadelphia,

have

received rom

you

at the

villagegranary

withthe concurrence f

the officials

upervising

he measure-

ment the thirteen and

one-third

artabas,

rom

the

produce

of

the

5th

year

of

Hadrian

Caesar

he

lord,

remaining

after the deduction

on

account

of

transportation

costs

of

one-twelfth

of

an artaba

from the sum total of thirteen and

five-twelfths

artabas

of

wheat authorized

to me

by

Archias,

strategus,

and

Hermeinus,

basilicogrammateus,

f the

division

of

Heracleides,

on

account

of

transportation

f

state wheat

which I

brought

down from the

granaries

o

the

harbourof

Kerke

and embarked .. . into the boats of the

Great

River;

total art.

I3,.

The

20th

year

of

the

Emperor

Caesar

Trajan

Hadrian

Augustus, Phaophi

7.

(2nd

hand)

I,

Harpalus

son of

Harpalus,

have

received

as aforesaid.

Notes

4

ff. For

the

series

Tac

Ec7TtcraAEcac-rac

cvvacyo1evac-'rdc

AoLwac

cf.

P.

Col.

I,

recto

4,

col.

Io

(see

note below

on 1.

I2).

5.

'Eppjjevov:

he

identification

f

the

basilicogrammateis

t this

time

is a

tangled

question.

The

only

unrestored vidence orHermaeus

at

all,

however,

s in P. Cornell

I6,

I9,

A.D.

133

(see

11.

37-8).

Requiring

the same standards for Hermeinus

produces

an official

so

named in

129

(P.

Philad.

6)

and

in

137

(P.

Grenf.

11

45a).

A

fresh examination of the Cornell

papyrus

may

well show

that in

fact Hermeinus was

continuously

in office from

129

to

138

(P.

Lond.

208

a):

for the

length

of

tenure

cf.,

for

example,

that

of Serenus o

Kal

Sarapion

in

Oxyrhynchus,

in

office

probably

from

148

until

154

on the

evidence

of

a

series of documents

from

Oxyrhynchus

which

I

have been

preparing

for

publication.

7.

For

the harbour

of

Kerke,

often mentioned

in

connection

with

Philadelphia

(11.

I,

3),

see

Wiken,

Corolla

Arch.

(=

Skrifter

Sven.

Inst. Rom.

11

(1932)),

270-6;

and

e.g.

0.

Mich.

Io81,

and

Youtie,

TAPA 8i

(I950),

I00.

That Kerke

is

the name in the

papyrus, although likely,

is not

quite

certain;

a

longer,

abbreviated,

name

is

possible.

But if

the

identification is

correct,

then

the

tdEyac

iro,raioc

of 11.

9-io

must in this instance at

any

rate be the Nile.

[Perhaps

cf.

the

Coptic

eicpo,

although

its use

in

Ezekiel

29.

3 may

be

against

a restricted

application.]

9.

The

reading

at the

beginning

of

the line

escapes

me.

darepyaciac

occurs

frequently

in trans-

portation

documents but would be out of

place

here.

II.

u/Era

rO

VT

Aoyr)OEv:

f.

Frisk,

Bankakten,

I,

col.

29,

1. II.

12.

For

8vadqopov

opETpov

see

e.g.

P. Col.

I,

verso

4,

1.

32

note

(=

Day

and

Keyes,

Tax

Docu-

ments

rom Theadelphia, 182);

Kalen,

P.

Berl.

Leihg., 45-53;

B6rner,

Staatl.

Korntransport,

ii

ff.

Here

however it must have a somewhat different

significance,

since it is exacted not

from

the

tax-

payers

but from the

transporter

himself,

and I

take

it

to be

a

fee levied for the

transportation

of

the

transportation-fee

grain

itself.

This

seems

a

likely

enough

situation,

since

the

transporters,

if

paid

in

kind,

were

paid

at the central

granary

(in

the

present

text cf.

1.

14)

and the extra

grain

levied

at

the

184

REVEL

A.

COLES



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FURTHER PAPYRI FROM THE BRITISH

MUSEUM

threshing-floors

from

the cultivators

v7rerp

bop&epov

ad to

be

transported

to

the

central

granary

as

well as

the

revenue

grain

itself.

I have

not

found a

precise parallel

for

8taifopov

bopeTpov

n

this

sense,

but

P.

Col.

I,

recto

4,

col.

IO,

1.

17

(=

Westermann

and

Keyes,

Tax

Lists

and

Transportation

Receiptsfrom Theadelphia,

122)

attests a

deduction from a

payment

made in

money

to a

CKVflEpirC,

virep

vav'ov

of

acanthus-wood:'

this

situation

may

seem more

complex

but is still

rational.

Cf.

also Frisk, Bankakten, no. i, col.

29

1.

11.2

I4-I5-

E'raKoov0ovvrwv

T

rcv

yTWYLErp77rTWv:

cf. P.

Wiirzb.

IO,

6.

17.

(ETroc)

K: contrast E

(e'rovc)

in 1.

13.

The

delay

is

slightly surprising.

The

readings

are

not

in

doubt;

in

any

case the known

dates for

Archias as

strategus

act as a control.

Presumably

then

the

transportation

concerned

had been of

grain

from the

harvest of

A.D.

13

,

and

payment

would

have

been

made out

of

grain

from

the same

harvest.

However,

rather

than

that

payment

for the

trans-

portation

had

been

delayed,

it

is more

likely

that the

grain

concerned had

been

a

long

time

in

storage.3

Cf. Westermann

and

Keyes,

Tax

Lists and

Transportation

Receipts from

Theadelphia,

II2-I3;

Frisk,

Bankakten,

19;

Borner,

Staatl.

Korntransport,

15.

The

suggestion

by

Westermann

and

Keyes

of a

connection with

the Nile

floods is worth

examining

for

the

present

context: there is

some

evidence that a

series of

rich

harvests

was

followed

by

a

lean

period

which

may

have led

to

the

clearance of old

surplus.

Both

134

and

135

seem to

have

brought

poor

floods

(see

Coles,

Proc. XII

Congressof Papyrology

(Michigan, 1968)

);

while Hadrian's edict

(P.

Oslo

78.

6,

restored from the

Cairo

fragments)

indicates

there had

been

excellent floods

in

rolc

rrporE'potc

ETECL

e/c.

See

Day

and

Keyes,

Tax

Documents

from

Theadelphia,

313.

[The

flood

of

13I,

however,

should

perhaps

be

regarded

as

excessive

rather

than

excellent,

while

Mme.

Danielle

Bonneau

in

correspondence

tells me

that

the floods

of both

129

and

130

were

poor;

the

evidence is

analysed

in her

forthcoming

book on the

subject.

It

is

the

130

flood

which

would

have

affected the

harvest

of

131

from which

came

the

grain

referred to in

the

present

text.]

2.

EPIKRISIS

P.

Lond.

Inv.

2415

2I

X

23-5

cm.

A.D.

156

An

application

addressed

to two

e'7TKptrat

from

a

man

and his

wife

requesting

that

their son, who had reachedthe age of fourteen

(?),

should be

put

on the list of those

privileged

to

pay poll-tax

at a

reduced

rate,

and

listing

their

credentials. The

document

follows

the

usual

lines, cf.,

for

example,

P.

Teb.

320;

for

a

short

discussion

see

Wallace,

Taxation,

Io9-I2;

also

Bingen,

Chron.

d'tlg.

31

(1956),

109-17,

with P.

Wisc.

p.

68.

The

papyrus

is

somewhat

tattered at

the

top,

and the

left

edge

is

missing;

otherwise

it

is

more

or

less

intact.

The

text is

written

along

the

fibres

in a

fluent

and

graceful

cursive

hand.

[

]

Kal

lroTA1AEkli)

T[-.]

Kal

tIovAlw

y

veyv(tvacLapxK0c'ct)

[

i...

.t'

ALyeov

EMTpo

7(ov)

[irapa

'HjpaKAEtcov

Xatpr-Iov[oc]

rov

XaLpritpovoc

z,/(rp3c)

CapL

oviroc

[Kal TrC yVVaLKO]C

ZLOCKopOVToC

OwVC

C

8e rT^C

Kat

otLo,rarptov

Katl

doopTrplov

5

[tov

asxaHfrK7c

eVr]a

KVPloV

CLOV

HpaKXEcA

op,

aXoTEpwv

rCOv

Tro

rd

^

rporo'A(EW

c)

The

editors'

reading

is

revised

by

Youtie,

TAPA

87

(1956),

75,

but the

sense

remains

the

same.

Cf.

Youtie's

revision there

of

P.

Ryl.

660 (p.

73

ff.);

note also

pp.

69-73.

The 6

per

cent

rate of

deduction

from

these

money

payments

is

notably

higher

than

the

assessment in

kind

in the

present

text.

2

p

(SpaXlCwov)

in

1.

12,

repeated

in

SB

7515,

is

surely

to

be

read

as

(CKarocr6hv).

3 The

payment

in P.

Wurzb.

o1

for

the

transportation

in

14

Hadrian

of corn

from

the

harvest

of

12 Hadrian

(if

the

reading

in 1.

13

is

right)

with corn

from the

harvest of

io

Hadrian

must

have

some

other

explanation.

I85



5/5

i86

REVEL

A.

COLES

[avayp(aboo`vwv)

E&

a]f68ov

CvptaK

c.

-rov Ea'A

AA4Awv

t'ovo

atp-IjEovoc

nTpoc-

8(atvov,roc)

[EtC

(TECCaPECKaCt8EKaLETEC)

-6

-V]Ev]f-r(J-)

6

E'TEt)

vrcov`vov

Ka

'Capoc

TOV

KVp0ov

Kat

OSEt`AOVrOC

[ErrKpOijvat

6]VE]-a'6aEv

ra

S&'Kata.

aLLoTEpotL

ItEV

ovv

a7TEyp(Ja,aLEOa)

-rat-c

Karda

Katpov

LTO

Yp(aqoaF)

KaLL

Tj

7roi3

6

("'rovc)

AvrcWvi'vo[v]

Kat'capoc

iOV3

KVplOv

aJrroyp(aO'-)

EM'

CvptaK(-ic)

xo

[JIFu,bSO'U,

cvvarroy]p)(w/Jc4~LEUa

vot)

jro

ro

rovc)

Jrroyp(aO4)

Ka'

-r'

tvKpLVo((LEvov)

vto'

Xatp7l,ova

Sto

&5

(180tLEV)

(znd hand)

[

5]quoc YEYv(,IvactLpX7lqKwcC)

ta

Toip/Wovoc

roi3

Kat

Aya6ovi

Jai4/.ovoc

ypaCLqLcLtTECC

EC7)/LEtW/4c(aU)

[Xatp'4],upva

HC[pa]KAE/`ov

oi

Xap-IjEovoc

ILTJTPOC

JtocKOPOVTOC.

&oTvC

to

AVTW-

VELVOV

KCalcapo]f

'TOO

KvploV,

MECOP')

y

6.

vtov

pap.

Io.

Tr-:

Tatc pap.?

viov

pap.

Translation

To

.

.

and

Ptolemaeus

also called

Julius,

ex-gymnasiarchs,

...

acting

through

his

guardian

Aeneas,

from Heracleides

son of

Chaeremon

son

of

Chaeremon,

my

mother

being

Sambous,

and

my

wife

Dioscorous,

who is also

my

sister on both father's and

mother's

side,

with

myself

Herac-

leides as

her

guardian,

both of

the

metropolite

class and

registered

in

the

Syrian

quarter.

Since our

joint

son

Chaeremon

is

approaching

the

age

of fourteen in the

present

i9th

year

of Antoninus

Caesar

the lord

and

ought

to be

selected,

we have

appended

our

claims.

We were both returned

in

the

periodic

censuses

and

in the

census

of the

9th

year

of Antoninus Caesar

the

lord in the

Syrian

quarter,

returning

along

with ourselves

in

the

census of

the 9th

year

our son

Chaeremon

also,

who

is now a candidate for selection; wherefore we present this application.

(2nd

hand)

I,

[...

]emus, ex-gymnasiarch,

through

Turbon also called

Agathodaemon,

scribe,

have

signed

in

respect

of Chaeremon

son

of

Heracleides son

of

Chaeremon,

his

mother

being

Dios-

corous.

The

i9th

year

of Antoninus

Caesar the

lord,

Mesore

3.

Notes

I-2.

The

papyrus

at the

top

is

badly damaged

and

the

reading

of

these

first

two

lines is

very

uncertain.

The

personal

names are little more

than

guesses.

In

1.

I

T[

]w

is

especially puzzling:

T

and

w

seem

satisfactory,

and

Tc7

s

expected

at this

point.

Did the writer

leave a

gap?

For 1.

2

cf.

P.

Ryl. 103,

2.

EffrLTp

ov)

could be read as

E7rnKP(traitc).

3.

The

supplement

at

the

beginning

of this

line

is all

that

is

required,

but

is

much

shorter than

its neighbours. No obvious addition suggests itself to me.

4.

The

first

Kat

s written in a

superbly

flamboyant

style.

5. /Iu7Tpo7OA,Ewc:

.e.

Arsinoe.

6-7.

irpoc/(E/3pcdq'rc)

or

7rpocfl(aI-roc), (TpLCKatEKaETaEiC)

are

possible

alternatives.

9.

The

first visible

trace

is

indeterminate.

For

the

restoration

TaLC

KaTr

KaLpov

dirvoypa#atc

cf.

P. Gen.

i8,

I

3.

Perhaps

thereafter

pJ'PC

T]CC...

d'royp(aq

c) (cf.

P.

Ryl.

I04,

io) which

may fit

the

lacuna

better.

i i

ff.

For

the docket

cf.,

for

example,

P.

Ryl.

103,

22-3.
