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Soterichos and Didymos

Name: Soterichos and Didymos
Variants: Soterichos; Didymos
Place: 00b - Theadelpheia (Batn el-Harit)
Century: AD01 AD02
Begin: AD 65
End: AD 135
Language/script: Greek
Material: papyrus
Texts: 43
↳ certain: 42
↳ uncertain: 1
↳ erroneous:
Type: private family archive (two generations)
Protagonist: Soterichos, registered in Arsinoe, lives in Theadelpheia together with his four sons. He makes a living by leasing vineyards, arable land and garden land. His son Didymion, who seems to have continued the archive after the death of Soterichos, lives in the same village and also contracts leases.
Description: 16 receipts for rent of fields, 5 contracts of lease, 3 receipts for repayment of loans, 13 receipts for poll tax (of which 4 are on rolls), 5 other
Studies: Omar, Das Archiv des Soterichos, 1979 [P. Soter.]; France, Theadelpheia and Euhemereia, unpubl. diss. Leuven, 1999, p. 141
Lists: Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 577 no. 14
Work:
Collections: Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Leiden, Papyrological Institute
Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale
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