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Artefact ID1100
TM IDTM 15502
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

SB XXII 15311; SB XIV 11972: Register of tax payments in wheat

Document in two fragments with a list concerning the collection of tax payments in various Hermopolitan villages to be transported on the boat of the monastery of Tabennese (Thebaid), represented by the monk (apotaktikos) Anoubion, son of Horion, from the village of Alabastrine in the Antinoites nome, here responsible for tax transportation. Also, one of the taxpayers listed is Paulos, deacon (l. 10). The right part of the papyrus, with the amounts, is lost.

Although the text is difficult, it seems to be the earliest evidence for the implication of Pachomian monasteries in activities related to the transportation of the annona by boat.

Selection criteriaMention of Christian cult officials/institutions, Mention of Christian individuals/communities, Christian onomastics
Date from367
Date to383
Dating criteria

Two indictional dates are mentioned in the document, which would point either towards a date in 367/368 or 382/383 (see Thomas 1989: 690, n. 32  (= BL IX 277).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Purchased through Friedrich Zucker in 1910 (BerlPap).

Accession number

Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. 11860 a-b

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference edition

Klaas A. Worp. 1993. "SB XIV 11972 Fr. A: Eine Neuedition." Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 39: 29-34.

Editio Princeps

• Wipszycka, Ewa. 1975. "Les terres de la congrégation pachômienne dans une liste de paiements pour les apora." In Le monde grec. Hommages à Claire Préaux, edited by Jean Bingen et alii. Bruxelles, 625-636.

Additional bibliography

• Choat, Malcolm. 2009. "Property ownership and taxpayment."In The Adminstration of Monastic Estates in Late Antique Islamic Egypt, in Memory of Sarah Clackson. (Oxford, 25-26 September 2004), edited by A. Boud’hors, J. Clackson and P. Sijpesteijn, Cincinnati, 31-40.

• Gascou, Jean. 1976. “P. Fouad 87: Les monastères pachômiens et l'État byzantin. Post-scriptum.” Bulletin de l'institut français d'archéologie orientale 76, 183-184.

• Fournet, Jean-Luc and Gascou, Jean. (2002). “Moines pachômiens et batellerie.” In Alexandrie médiévale 2, edited by C. Décobert. ÉtudAlex 8. Cairo, 37.

• Thomas, J. D. 1989. "Exactores in the Papyri and in the Legal Codes.", In Egitto e storia antica dall’ellenismo all’età araba: atti del colloquio internazionale, Bologna, 31 agosto – 2 settembre 1987, bilancio di un confronto, edited by L. Criscuolo et al.  Bologna.

• Wipszycka, Ewa. 1995. "Neokoros dans SB XIV 11972: un ecclésiastique ou un prêtre païen?" Journal of Juristic Papyrology 25, 181-186.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1100", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1100
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