Rafał Taubenschlag
"Receipts for φόρος προβάτων in the
papyrus collection of the University
of Wisconsin", S. L. Wallace, "J. E. A.",
XXV, 1939 : [recenzja]
The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 1, 116
I I 6 J O U R N A L O F P A P Y R O L O G Y
elected in an assembly of citizens, a ytpovala, before they o b t a i n e d the E m p e r o r ' s consent. A certain Isidores claimed t h a t the election w a s against the l a w , b u t he himself w a s u n m a s k e d as a "false accuser" as he pretended t o be an A l e x a n d r i a n c i t i z e n w h i c h w a s n o t the case as o n l y a n A l e x a n d r i a n citizen c o u l d institute an accusation in an. i n t e r n a l affair of the ηόλις. T h e accuser w a s f o u n d g u i l t y a n d punished, so it seems, by s t i g m a t i z i n g or fire-death.
H . A . S A N D E R S , A Soldier s Marriage certificate in Diploma Form. P r o c . A m . P h i l o s o p h . Soc., L X X X I ( 1 9 3 9 ) , p. 581ff.
T h i s d o c u m e n t , a papyrus f r a g m e n t f r o m the U n i v e r s i t y of M i c h i g a n , E x c a v a t i o n at K a r a n i s , is dated in the second cent. A . D . I n f o r m a n d a r r a n g e m e n t of text a n d signatures it is a p a r a l l e l to M i c h . I n v . 508-2217. T h e m a r r i a g e contract of a soldier at this early date is i m p o r t a n t for this m u c h discussed p r o b l e m since it indicates t h a t the chief object m a y w e l l have been the a t t a i n m e n t of R o m a n citizenship by the w i f e a n d c h i l d r e n u p o n the h o n o r a b l e discharge of the soldier.
T h e f r a g m e n t a r y signatures of seven witnesses seemingly R o m a n citizens, b u t w r i t t e n in G r e e k appear on the back of the d o c u m e n t .
H . I . B E L L , Registration of a chirograph of sale, P. Harr. 143, J . E . A . , X X V ( 1 9 3 9 ) , p. 52ff.
T h e p a p y r u s p r o b a b l y of the t i m e of D i o c l e t i a n , is an « μ α ρ τ ύ ρ η σ α of a c h i r o g r a p h of sale, like O x y . 1208, 1562, fortified w i t h a καθάπιρ iy Βίκψ clause. T h e f o r m u l a however, differs in some degree f r o m those in the t w o p a r a l l e l d o c u m e n t s .
S. L . W A L L A C E , Receipts for φόρος προβάτων in the papyrus collection of
the University of Wisconsin. J . E . A . , X X V ( 1 9 3 9 ) , p. 62ff.
T h e receipts here published are the o n l y ones extant f r o m the second c e n t u r y A . D . in w h i c h the rent of sheep (φόρος προβάτων) is paid by the same i n d i v i d u a l in successive years. T h e p a p y r u s whose inventory n u m b e r is P . W i s c o n s i n 30, bears at least f o u r receipts for payments άπο φόρου
προβάτων Μαικηνατίανης ουσίας at E u p h e m e r i a in the A r s i n o i t e n o m e in 1 5 6 / 7
or before, in 1 5 7 / 8 , 1 5 8 / 9 a n d 161 A . D . T h e papyrus is especially interest-ing, because the receipts record p a y m e n t s m a d e in the years i m m e d i a t e l y before a n d after the απογραφή προβάτων και αιγών f r o m t h e same v i l l a g e of E u p h e m e r i a a n d dated 1 5 9 / 6 0 A . D . w h i c h was published by P . M e y e r as H a m b . 34.
H . С . Y O U T I E a n d Ο . M . P E A R L , Tax Rolls from Karanis, P a r t I I T e x t a n d Indexes. M i c h i g a n P a p y r i , vol. I V , part I I , A n n A r b o r . T h e U n i v e r s i t y of M i c h i g a n Press, 1939.
