A Notebook Roll and a Fiscal Codex from the Giessen Papyrus Collection (P.Giss. II)

Marcin Kotyl

ISBN 10: 3110662507 / ISBN 13: 9783110662504

Published by De Gruyter, De Gruyter Jul 2020, 2020

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The second volume of the Giessen Papyri (P.Giss. II) includes an edition of two previously unpublished Greek documents. The first one, numbered 127, is a notebook roll from Philadelphia dated to the last years of Vespasian's reign, containing nine documents concerning overdue rents for land in the ousiac parces; of particular interest is a draft of a complaint regarding peculation addressed to Ammonios, strategos of the Herakleidou meris. The second, numbered 128, is a fiscal codex from the Hermopolite nome, dated to the second half of the fourth century. This papyrus offers direct insight into many taxation issues, including the method of tax assessment based on the concept of kephale, which is still poorly understood; it also provides information regarding key fiscal changes that occurred after the reforms of Diocletian. The editions of these papyri will help scholars to reconstruct specific details of everyday life in Roman and Late Roman Egypt in areas including taxation, monetary systems, land tenure, onomastics, prosopography, administration, and social and economic situations. ; Die Zeitschrift Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete ist das älteste papyrologische Fachorgan der Welt. Sie unterscheidet sich von anderen papyrologischen Zeitschriften hauptsächlich durch ihre Referate (literarische Papyri, Urkundenreferat, koptische Texte, Demotica Selecta sowie Darstellungen und Hilfsmittel). Die Beihefte zu der Zeitschrift vereinen sowohl Monographien als auch Sammelbände; im Zentrum stehen Neueditionen von Papyrustexten griechischer, lateinischer, koptischer, demotischer oder arabischer Sprache, die neue Erkenntnisse zu verschiedenen Bereichen des Altertums vermitteln: zu Philologie, Literatur, Philosophie, Religion, Politik und Sozialgeschichte, zu Militär- und Rechtsgeschichte, zu Geographie und Landeskunde, zu Schul- und Gesundheitswesen und zum Alltagsleben; kurzum, zur antiken Kulturgeschichte überhaupt. Herausgeberinformationen Lajos Berkes, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland; Jean-Luc Fournet, Collège de France, Frankreich; Demokritos Kaltsas, University of Cyprus, Zypern; Brian McGing, Trinity College, Irland; Fabian Reiter, Università di Bologna, Italien; Giuseppe Ucciardello, Università di Messina, Italien; Marja Vierros, University of Helsinki, Finnland. 204 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Notebook Roll and a Fiscal Codex from the Giessen Papyrus Collection (P.Giss. II)
• Publisher: De Gruyter, De Gruyter Jul 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110662507
• ISBN 13: 9783110662504
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 175H x 17D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 175 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 534 grams

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Synopsis

The second volume of the Giessen Papyri (P.Giss. II) includes an edition of two previously unpublished Greek documents. The first one, numbered 127, is a notebook roll from Philadelphia dated to the last years of Vespasian’s reign, containing nine documents concerning overdue rents for land in the ousiac parces; of particular interest is a draft of a complaint regarding peculation addressed to Ammonios, strategos of the Herakleidou meris. The second, numbered 128, is a fiscal codex from the Hermopolite nome, dated to the second half of the fourth century. This papyrus offers direct insight into many taxation issues, including the method of tax assessment based on the concept of kephale, which is still poorly understood; it also provides information regarding key fiscal changes that occurred after the reforms of Diocletian. The editions of these papyri will help scholars to reconstruct specific details of everyday life in Roman and Late Roman Egypt in areas including taxation, monetary systems, land tenure, onomastics, prosopography, administration, and social and economic situations.

About the Author

Marcin Kotyl, University of Warsaw, Poland.