Catalog Record: chicago.apis.8093 [xml]

Title	Dioikesis tax receipt
Citations
Inv. Id	O. MedinHabuCopt 1317
Support/Dimensions	ostraca ;
Condition	On red pottery with yellow glaze
Lines	On recto: 8 lines in Coptic; on verso: 2 lines in Coptic
Recto/Verso	Source of description: On recto and verso: tax receipt
Origin	Thebes More from Thebes
Language	Coptic
Date	VIIth - VIIIth century A.D. More from the period between 600 CE and 799 CE
Note (general)	Number 317 in Stefanski's and Lichtheim's publication. Undated. Measurements not available. Lichtheim was uncertain to what the word "dioikesis" referred and whether it could denote tax in general. For a further explanation of the word this term, see R. Bagnall, Agricultural Productivity and Taxation in Later Roman Egypt, Transactions of the American Philological Association, vol. 115, 1985, p. 291 and D.W. Rathbone, Review of: Confiscated Property, Eine Steuerliste aus Pheretnuis (P. Pher.) by P.J. Sijpesteijn and K.A. Worp, The Classical Review, vol. 45, no. 1, 1995, p. 146. All ostraca in this volume were on loan from the Egyptian government and had been returned to Egypt by the time of publication.
Note (general)	Location: Oriental Institute
Note (general)	Pub. status: Published: recto and verso
Subjects	Administration; Tax; Documentary; ostraca
Associated Names	Abraham, son of Athanasius; Peter, son of Severus
License	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

Taxpayer: Abraham, son of Athanasius. Sum: 2 tremisses. Pay period: Year 9. Signature: Peter, son of Severus