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Further Papyri from the British Museum

Author(s): Revel A. Coles
Source: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 56 (Aug., 1970), pp. 183-186
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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.). Provisional transcriptshad 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

IOX 215 cm.

P. Lond. Inv. 2420

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
esp. I05-7 on the question of
payment of the fees in kind or in money; Borner, Staatl. Korntransport,I4-I6. Further
references are given by Youtie, TAPA 8I (I950), IOI.

and Transportation Receipts from Theadelphia, 98-II4,

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 necessarily in a different hand. I am also grateful to Mr. P. J. Parsons for a
discussion on interpretation.

KwCL'rC tLAaSEAcELaac.
CELroAoyoLC
ApTraAoc Aprirdov iS8CiLKoc
KT7r]VvTpObOC KC'L7C
(LAaocAE cEac'
aTrExo rap' Viu,v rac erncraAELcac iAoLVrTOApXtov crp(arTyovo) Ka'. Eptelv'o'(v)
flac(LALKo) yp(au,arTE'wc) 'HpaKAEI0ov
v;rrep boAErpo''(v)
EcC
ov K~arT7ra aro
q?7[cav]pwyv
OPC\O'(v) 'KEPK?C'
Sr7LOClOV

KaL EvEfaAd6Lrlv

eLc 7rAota leyaAov

a..p.....
10

rrVpoV

(
7roTralov rac cvvayo(
t

(7rvpov)

(aprTaac)

~,

tyyg

evac) E7rLT

),,

avTO

To vroAoyr70(Ev)
tLETcara

VIrrp 8Ltao6pov ohA(Erpov) (apTracqCc) L'fl' 'ac AoL(trac) aTro

LE(Erovc) AlpLavovi Kaicapoc Tov KVplOV
yEv7(LaTroc)
ErTL Oqrcavpov3 Trjc

15

rJv

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

EYtLETp7rTWV dpTr 3(ac)

sEKa-

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REVEL A. COLES

184

rpELc rpirov, (ytvovtra)

(apTr3at) vyy'

(E7rOVC)K AV7roKpcaropocKaicapoc TpaLavov

AS4ptavov Cef/acrovY,Oac .t ^7.

(2nd hand) AprraAoc ApTrdaov adTrr'X
20

3.

Ka0LOc 7TpoKEtTat.

of Kc),L7-qcorr.

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,from the village of Philadelphia,have
receivedfromyou at the villagegranarywith the concurrenceof the officialssupervisingthe measurement the thirteenand one-thirdartabas,from the produceof the 5th year of HadrianCaesarthe
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,of the division of Heracleides, on account of

transportationof state wheat which I brought down from the granariesto 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).

at this time is a tangled question. The
5. 'Eppjjevov:the identificationof the basilicogrammateis
at
unrestored
evidence
for
is
in
P.
CornellI6, I9, A.D. 133 (see 11.37-8).
Hermaeus
all,
however,
only
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 instanceat any rate be the Nile. [Perhapscf. 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. darepyaciacoccurs frequently in transportation documents but would be out of place here.
cf. Frisk, Bankakten, I, col. 29, 1. II.
II. u/Era rOVToAoyr)OEv:
12. For 8vadqopov
qopETpovsee e.g. P. Col. I, verso 4, 1. 32 note (= Day and Keyes, Tax Documentsfrom 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 taxpayers 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

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FURTHER PAPYRI FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM

I85

threshing-floors from the cultivators v7rerp bop&epovhad to be transported to the central granary as
well as the revenue grain itself. I have not found a precise parallel for 8taifopov bopeTpovin 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

rcv
cf. P. Wiirzb. IO, 6.
I4-I5yTWYLErp77rTWv:
17. (ETroc) K: contrast E (e'rovc) in 1. 13. The delay is slightly surprising. The readings are not in
E'raKoov0ovvrwv T

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 transportation 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'potcETECLe/c. See Day
and Keyes, Tax Documentsfrom 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'7TKptratfrom a man and his wife requesting that
their son, who had reached the 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 EMTpo7(ov)
[irapa 'HjpaKAEtcov Xatpr-Iov[oc] rov XaLpritpovoctz,/(rp3c) CapLoviroc
[

[Kal

[tov

TrC yVVaLKO]C ZLOCKopOVToC OwVC C 8e rT^CKat otLo,rarptov

Katl doopTrplov
aTrorrd ^
JeVr]a KVPloV CLOV'HpaKXEcAop, aXoTEpwv rCOv
asxaHfrK7c
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.

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i86

REVEL A. COLES
[avayp(aboo`vwv) E& a]f68ov

dAA4Awvvt'ovoXatp-IjEovoc nTpocCvptaKc. -rov Ea'A

8(atvov,roc)
i-6-V]Ev]f-r(J-)
[EtC (TECCaPECKaCt8EKaLETEC)
Kat

6 (E'TEt)

vrcov`vov

Ka 'Capoc TOV KVp0ov

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
EM'

xo

7roi3 6 ("'rovc) AvrcWvi'vo[v] Kat'capoc iOV3 KVplOv aJrroyp(aO'-)

CvptaK(-ic)

Evot) jro(ro
[JIFu,bSO'U,cvvarroy]p)(w/Jc4~LEUa
vto' Xatp7l,ova. Sto
E&5 (180tLEV)

rovc) Jrroyp(aO4)

Ka' -r' tvKpLVo((LEvov)

(znd hand) [ 5]quoc YEYv(,IvactLpX7lqKwcC)Sta Toip/Wovoc roi3 Kat Aya6ovi Jai4/.ovoc

CEC7)/LEtW/4c(aU)
ypaCLqLcLtTECC

roi Xap-IjEovoc ILTJTPOCLJtocKOPOVTOC.

[Xatp'4],upva'HC[pa]KAE/`ov

&oTvC to AVTW-

VELVOV
KCalcapo]f

6. vtov pap.

'TOO

Io.

KvploV, MECOP') y
Tr-:

Tatc pap.? viov pap.

Translation

To . . and Ptolemaeus also called Julius, ex-gymnasiarchs, ...

acting through his guardian
of
mother
son
of
son
Chaeremon
Heracleides
from
Chaeremon, my
Aeneas,
being Sambous, and
mother's
sister
on
both
father's
and
who
is
also
wife
side, with myself HeracDioscorous,
my
my
class
and
in
leides as her guardian, both of the metropolite
registered 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 Dioscorous. The i9th year of Antoninus Caesar the lord, Mesore 3.
Notes
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 Tc7is 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 Katis written in a superbly flamboyant style.
i.e. Arsinoe.
5. /Iu7Tpo7OA,Ewc:
are possible alternatives.
6-7. irpoc/(E/3pcdq'rc) or 7rpocfl(aI-roc), (TpLCKatEKaETaEiC)
9. The first visible trace is indeterminate. For the restoration TaLCKaTr KaLpov dirvoypa#atc cf.
P. Gen. i8, I3. Perhaps thereafter pJ'PC7T]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.
I-2.

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