Primary Documents

Examples of primary documents dating to the time of Severus Alexander rule. If you find one I don't have, please email me.

Title: Account of five-day periods, [228/229]
Author: Herodes (Tax collector from Egypt), 3rd cent.
Subject: Tax collection --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Accounting --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Documentary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Accounts --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 10 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 9.1 x 6.7 cm.
	12 lines.
	P.Duk.inv. 957 was written along the fibers on the recto.
	Lower margin of 1.5 cm.; left margin of 0.5 cm.
	Account of five-day periods from Egypt, written on
	papyrus. Account is for one month in the eighth year
	of Severus Alexander (AD 228/229). Submitted and
	signed by Herodes, presumably a tax collector.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

From Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

Author: Aurelius Onnophris, fl. 229-235.

Title: Declarations on oath, [232/3]

Subject: Aurelius Leonides, fl. 229-237. Severus Alexander, Emperor of Rome, 208-235. Julia Mamaea, d 235. Swine --Egypt --Oxyrhynchite Nome --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Oaths --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Strategi, Greek --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Egypt --Officials and employees --30 B.C.-640 A.D. Documentary papyri --Egypt --Oxyrhynchite Nome --30 B.C.-640 A.D.

Material: 1 item : papyrus, four joining fragments mounted in glass, incomplete ; 16 cm.

Note: Actual dimensions of item are 16.0 x 7.5 cm. 40 lines. Written in two columns along the fibers on the recto; written across the fibers on the verso in a different hand. Upper margin of 1.5 cm. P.Duk.inv. 531 R was formerly P.Miss. 98 R. Two papyrus declarations on oath to Aurelius Leonides, strategos of the Oxyrhynchites (Oxyrhynchite Nome), Egypt by Aurelius Onnophris alias Lykarion from Paomeos in the Thmoisepho toparchy that he has something and 40 pigs ready for the imperial visit of Severus Alexander and his mother Iulia Mammaea. Each pig weighs about 50 pounds or more. Verso has a tax account in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 531 V) In Greek. Descriptive database available in repository.

Publications: Peter van Minnen and Joshua D. Sosin, "Imperial Pork: Preparations for a Visit of Severus Alexander and Iulia Mamaea to Egypt," Ancient Society 27 (1996) 171-181.

From Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library