announcement concerning practise of a tradeDioskoros, freedman of SarapionAPISperkins.apis.3989(TxDaM-P)3989p.oxy.10.12630181;10;1263p.oxy;10;12632177021770P.Oxy. X 1263A notification addressed to the city-scribe of Oxyrhynchos that the writer proposed to begin practising the trade of a "potamou ergates" (= labourer employed in the construction or repair of embankments and camals, and similar work) in the present year. As a "techne" this calling was presumably subject to the "cheinonaxion" or tax on trades, and it was probably in the interests of that impost that the present declaration was required.Location: Bridwell Library; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University; University Park; Dallas Texas 75275; USAPub. status: Recto; Verso is blankGreek1 papyrus ; 9.4 x 6.1 cm17 linesSource of description: Recto128-129 A.D.Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, EgyptDioskoros, freedman of SarapionSarapion, son of Sarapion, grandson of Dio..Hadrianus Caesar
Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekOxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt;;Hermaios, quarter, Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, EgyptDocumentaryPapyrus
To Diogenes, alias Hermaios, ex-exegetes, scribe of the city, from Dioskoros, freedman of Sarapion, son of Sarapion, grandson of Dio..., inhabitant of Oxyrhynchos in the quarter of Hermaios. I wish to begin from the present thirteenth year of Hadrianus Caesar the lord to practise the trade of a river-worker; accordingly I present this application as above. Year thirteenth [
Hengstl, Griechische Papyri, 1978, no 9, pp. 48-50 Grenfell BP - Hunt AS, POxy X, 1263, 1914 -- BL XI, 148 (resolution of "exeget( )" in l. 2) Hunt AS - Edgar CC, Select Papyri II, 317, 1934P.Oxy.:10:1263