Unpublished Roman Demotic Tax Receipts | ||
| مجلة کلية الآثار . جامعة القاهرة | ||
| Volume 14, Issue 26, 2023, Pages 109-140 PDF (1.62 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jarch.2023.277025 | ||
| Author | ||
| Sara Nabil | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Publication of a series of Demotic tax receipts from the Roman period, issued by the bank of the Northern Quarters in Jeme. These include the poll and bath taxes, as well as taxes that cannot be identified. This collection belongs to the Oriental Institute's 1929/30 season of excavation at Madinet Habu[1], and are kept in the Egyptian museum in Cairo holding numbers M.H. 1809,488, 1967, 4051, 2786, 2394, 29.20, 2939, 4275, 475, 523, 4297, 1024, 2773, 2782 and 2796. It is remarkable that number M.H. 2394 holds also a field number 29.20 which refers to the find spot F5.[2] The texts in this study are dated to the Roman period, the first eleven texts mention the date, while it is broken in the other texts. The name of the Roman emperor Augustus is written no. 2 (M.H. 488) and no. 7 (M.H. 2939), and emperor Tiberius in no. 9 (M.H. 475). The receipts which do not mention the name of the emperor probably date to the reign of Augustus[3] such as text no. 1 (M.H. 1809). [1] Höschler, U., Medinet Habu Reports, 2, The Architectural Survey; Chicago-Illinois, 1929/1930, For more information about this colection see: Lichtheim, M., Demotic Ostraca from Medinet Habu, Chicago-Illinois, 1957; Wahid El-Din, S., Demotic Ostraca from Thebes in the Egyptian Museum, Ph.D diss., Zagazig University, 2005; Nabil, S., Unpublished Demotic Ostraca from Medinet Habu in the Egyptian Museum, Ph.D. diss., Ain Shams University, 2011; Nabil, S., Some Unpublished Demotic Ostraca that Deal with Poll tax from the Roman Period, BACPS 2, 2014, The Fifth International Congress The Word and Image in Ancient Civilizations, Cairo, 1-5; Nabil, S., Three Demotic Ostraca from Medient Habu, Abgadiyat 12, 2017, 28-34. [2] To be added to the list of Lichtheim, Demotic Ostraca from Medinet Habu, III; Wahid El-Din, O. Thebes, 2; Nabil, Unpublished Demotic Ostraca from Medinet Habu, XXVII f. [3] Lichtheim, Demotic Ostraca from Medinet Habu, 16. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Demotic; Taxes; Roman; poll taxes; bath taxes; Madinet Habu; Jeme | ||
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