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Last Updated on 14 Jan 2019

Author: Matt Gibbs & Philip F. Venticinque

CAPInv. 1661: halopolai Ibion Eikosipentarouron

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
ii. Region Arsinoite
ii. Nome Arsinoites (00)
iii. Site Ibion Eikosipentarouron

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ἁλοπῶλαι Ἰβίων Εἰκοσιπενταρούρων (P.Mich. II 123 recto col.xxii l. 27)
ii. Full name (transliterated) halopolai Ibion Eikosipentarouron

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 45 / 46 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Geographical:Ibion Eikosipentarouron
Professional:halopolai

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Mich. II 123 recto col.xxii l. 27 (AD 45/6)
Online Resources P.Mich. II 123 recto
TM 11967
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Grapheion register (the clause refers to a payment, ἀναφόρια anaphoria, of 576 dr. registered by this group) in Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Papyrus

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members Simply salt merchants: ἀλοπῶλαι, halopolai.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note Given the information and implications made in P.Mich. V 245 (CAPInv. 1658), these are likely male.
iii. Age Adults

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction Between the grapheion and this particular group of salt merchants.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note We do know from other papyri (namely P.Mich. V 245, P.Mich. II 123 recto col. vii l. 27, and P.Mich. II 123 recto col. xxi l. 40: CAPInv. 1658, CAPInv. 1660, and CAPInv. 1662) that there were several groups of salt merchants working in Tebtynis and its surrounding regions in the mid-first century AD