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Details
Title
P.Tebt.0040, Petition from Pnepheros
Published
1 Feb. 117 B.C.
Full Collection Name
Advanced Papyrological Information System
Other Identifiers
P.Tebt.0040
Subject (Person)
Menches (Komogrammateus of Kerkeosiris); Demetrios (Epistates of Kerkeosiris); Nikanor (Archiphylakites of Kerkeosiris); Amenneus (Basilikos Grammateus)
Subject (Topic)
Royal monopolies; Beer tax; Salt tax
Geographic Coverage
Kerkeosiris; Polemonos meris
Type
Image
Format
Petitions, Ptolemaic period
Extent
Item/s: 1
26 lines, on recto along the fibers.
26 lines, on recto along the fibers.
Dimensions
32.8 x 12 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library Center for the Tebtunis Papyri
Note
Pnepheros, farmer of the taxes on beer and natron (salt) of Kerkeosiris, petitions the Basilikos Grammateus asking to be put under his protection; the Basilikos Grammateus subscribed to the petition and forwarded it to Menches
UCInventory: 1685
Ownership: Tebtunis
Context: Menches archive
Holding Institution: Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
Publication Side: Verso published
Section Side: On verso, along the fibers, address
Transcription: doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0206&query=document%3D%2336&layout=&loc=1.39
Translation: (3rd h.) Received in the 53rd year, Tybi 15. (1st h.) To Amenneus, Basilikos Grammateus, from Pnepheros son of Paous, contractor for the taxes on beer and natron at Kerkeosiris in the division of Polemon for the 53rd year. Having received certain information that the inhabitants of the village are with one accord claiming your protection, and being myself anxious to belong to your house because it devolves upon you before all others to watch over the interests of the crown, I beg you to order a letter to be sent to Demetrios the Epistates of the village and Nikanor the archiphylakites and Menches the village scribe and the elders of the cultivators, with instructions to compel the inhabitants to follow the ancient traditions, in order that I may be enabled to pay my dues regularly. Farewell. (2nd h.) To Menches, village scribe. Let justice be done to the tax-payer in accordance with the traditions of the village. The 53rd year, Tybi 13. (Addressed on the verso) To Menches.
Script Style: 3 cursive hands: 1, body of petition; 2, order from Basilikos Grammateus; 3, notice of receipt
Mounted: glass
Material: Pap
Margins: Margins: top, 2 cm.; left, 1.8 cm.; right, 1.4 cm.; bottom, 4 cm. Smudges left of last line caused by folding the papyrus when ink was still wet.
Preservation Notes: Papyrus upside down.
Place: Kerkeosiris
Publication Status: published
Publisher: P.Tebt., I.40
Revision History: MARC rcd 2/18/1998 AV
Textual Date: 53rd year of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, 13th of the Egyptian month Tybi.
Primary Publication: P.Tebt.:1:40
UCInventory: 1685
Ownership: Tebtunis
Context: Menches archive
Holding Institution: Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
Publication Side: Verso published
Section Side: On verso, along the fibers, address
Transcription: doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0206&query=document%3D%2336&layout=&loc=1.39
Translation: (3rd h.) Received in the 53rd year, Tybi 15. (1st h.) To Amenneus, Basilikos Grammateus, from Pnepheros son of Paous, contractor for the taxes on beer and natron at Kerkeosiris in the division of Polemon for the 53rd year. Having received certain information that the inhabitants of the village are with one accord claiming your protection, and being myself anxious to belong to your house because it devolves upon you before all others to watch over the interests of the crown, I beg you to order a letter to be sent to Demetrios the Epistates of the village and Nikanor the archiphylakites and Menches the village scribe and the elders of the cultivators, with instructions to compel the inhabitants to follow the ancient traditions, in order that I may be enabled to pay my dues regularly. Farewell. (2nd h.) To Menches, village scribe. Let justice be done to the tax-payer in accordance with the traditions of the village. The 53rd year, Tybi 13. (Addressed on the verso) To Menches.
Script Style: 3 cursive hands: 1, body of petition; 2, order from Basilikos Grammateus; 3, notice of receipt
Mounted: glass
Material: Pap
Margins: Margins: top, 2 cm.; left, 1.8 cm.; right, 1.4 cm.; bottom, 4 cm. Smudges left of last line caused by folding the papyrus when ink was still wet.
Preservation Notes: Papyrus upside down.
Place: Kerkeosiris
Publication Status: published
Publisher: P.Tebt., I.40
Revision History: MARC rcd 2/18/1998 AV
Textual Date: 53rd year of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, 13th of the Egyptian month Tybi.
Primary Publication: P.Tebt.:1:40
Provenance
Crocodile cartonnage at Tebtunis 27.5
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