Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 55 (2018) 219-227.
© American Society of Papyrologists/Peeters. doi: 10.2143/BASP.55.0.3285019
NEW EDITIONS OF TWO RENT RECEIPTS
FROM THE ARCHIVE OF MIKKALOS
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W. Graham Claytor Hunter College of the City University of New York
and Mohamed G. Elmaghrabi Alexandria University
Abstract. — Re-editions of two rent receipts, BGU 13.2344 and P.Lond. 2.151
(p. 215), from the archive of Mikkalos, a Roman-period landowner from
Karanis.
A new reading of the rent receipt BGU 13.2344 shows that it belongs to
the small archive of Mikkalos, son of Ptolemaios alias Petheus the elder, a
landowner from the village of Karanis, whose papers span the years 74-105.
P.Lond. 2.151 (p. 215) is another rent receipt written in the same hand as
the Berlin papyrus, which can also be connected to the archive. Below, we
offer re-editions of these two papyri, along with a list of archive texts.
# Text Date (CE) Type
1 P.Lond. 2.146 descr. (p. xiv) 74 Declaration of land
2 BGU 13.2344 = 1 77/78, 89/90, or 105/106 Receipt for rent
3 P.Lond. 2.151 (p. 215) = 2 87/88 (?) Receipt for rent
4 P.Lond. 2.141 (p. 181) 88 Cession of land
5 BGU 11.2017 ca. 88 Declaration of land
6 P.Lond. 2.142 (p. 203) 28 Nov. 95 Return of loan
7 P.Lond. 2.143 (p. 204) 97 Return of remaining pledge
8 P.Lond. 2.162a descr. (p. xv) ca. 98/99 Loan
9 P.Lond. 2.172 (p. 205) 105 Return of loan
Table 1: The archive of Mikkalos, son of Ptolemaios alias Petheus the elder
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We thank Paul Heilporn and the two anonymous reviewers for their comments. Both
documents are republished from digital images. The images of BGU 13.2344 are published
courtesy of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung
and the image of P.Lond. 2.151 is published courtesy of the British Library.
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The Archive of Mikkalos is listed in Trisgmegistos Archives (http://www.trismegis-
tos.org/arch) under TM Arch 602; Claytor is preparing full editions of #1 and #8 along with
a discussion of the archive.