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Texts from the "Archive" of Socrates, the Tax Collector, and Other Contexts at Karanis - P. Cair. Mich. II (Hardcover, Digital original)
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Texts from the "Archive" of Socrates, the Tax Collector, and Other Contexts at Karanis - P. Cair. Mich. II (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: Archiv fur Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete - Beihefte
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This volume of Papyri contains a selection of 25 pieces which were
excavated in the village of Karanis in the north-eastern Fayum
(Egypt) by American archaeologists between 1924 and 1926. Many of
the texts published here come from the archive of a well known
figure in the village life of Karanis in the 2nd century AD:
Socrates, son of Sarapion, was a tax collector here for many years,
serving the Roman Empire collecting taxes due in money and in kind.
Besides his successful economic activities - Socrates certainly
belonged to the upper stratum of society in Karanis - the tax
collector was a lover of Greek literature; for sure, he did not
venture into high philosophy and the like, but he read Homer,
comedies, and tried to be up to date about mythology in plays. Half
of the new texts published here are literary, mostly from Socrates'
library; other texts were found in the immediate neighbourhood of
where Socrates lived, such as a surgical treatise about remedies of
shoulder dislocations, which perhaps belonged to a doctor. The
other half of the papyrus texts in this volume are documents that
can shed new light on the activities of the tax collector, or of
other inhabitants of Karanis. Altogether they give us a vivid
picture of village life in Graeco/Roman Egypt in the 2nd century
AD.
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