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Artefact ID1388
TM IDTM 21705
Findspot (DEChriM ID)30   (al-Ašmūnayn)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

P.Amh. II 140: Declaration of sitologoi

Two copies of a declaration in the same hand, both much mutilated; but a combination of the evidence of the two produces the text almost complete (140.1 better for the recto; 140.2 better for the verso). It is a declaration on oath, addressed to Aurelius Diodes, praepositus of the 12th pagus of the Hermopolite nome, by three sitologoi and an inspector, stating the sums they had collected and paid into the official bank as the tax on certain mines. Date and signature of the illiterate sitologoi are written by Aurelius Hatres, inspector (gnoster).

On the verso of 140.2, there is a cross preceding the title of the document according to the edition [no image available from the collection as the papyrus is glued on cardboard].

Fast cursive handwriting running along the fibres.

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from349
Date to349
Dating criteria

Consular date (l. 19-20: Ulpius Limenius and Fabius Aconius Catullinus Philomathius).

Absolute/relative dateAbsolute date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

New York, Pierpont Morgan Library Dept. of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Manuscript Amh. Gr. Pap. 140.1 and 2.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Grenfell, Bernard P. and Hunt, Arthur S. 1901. The Amherst Papyri, Being an Account of the Greek Papyri in the Collection of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, F.S.A. at Didlington Hall, Norfolk, II, Classical Fragments and Documents of the Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine Periods. London, no. 140. 

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1388", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1388
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