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Catalog Record: michigan.apis.2968 [xml]

Title letter
Author unknown
Summary Letter to an official, informing him that the writer has paid a tax installment and explaining why he has had difficulties in doing so.
Citations Husselman EM-Worrell WH, PMich Coptic III, 10, 1942, Pl VI
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 6864
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 34 x 5.5 cm.
Condition this light brown papyrus is complete and regularly cut on all sides; only significant damage at the bottom edge, where minor pieces of papyrus have been lost. (TC)
Lines 1-5
Recto/Verso Source of description: Recto
Hands Similar to Stegemann, Taf. 9, col. 6; BMC No. 1079v, pl. 2. Both are dated 650 A.D.
Origin unknown
More from unknown
Language Coptic
Date 650 A.D.
More from the period between 650 CE and 651 CE
Note (general) Location: Ann Arbor
Note (general) Pub. status: Recto; faint traces on Verso, undoubtedly the address
Note (related) -
Subjects -; Letter writing--Coptic--Egypt.; Christians--Egypt.; Archivists--Egypt.; Tax collection--Egypt.; Taxation--Egypt.; Taxpayer compliance--Egypt.; Papyrus; documentary
Associated Names Apa Stephanos, the chartulary; Clarus
Images Recto medium
Images Recto large
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

"Before everything I make obeisance to your Lordship. See, the installement, I have sent it north to your Lordship. Demand it then of Apa Stephanos, the chartulary, and may God bless you. Concerning Clarus: He took the harvests from (?) my places and left them fallow, since they were under judgment. Let your Lordship order him that he send his man south, and that the field be given back to me; for the place lies fallow, and the tax is in default (? and devolves ?) upon me. Salvation in the Lord."