Download or read book Texts from the "Archive" of Socrates, the Tax Collector, and Other Contexts at Karanis written by Mohamed Gaber El-Maghrabi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 25 papyri, which were excavated in the village of Karanis in the north-eastern Fayum by American archaeologists (1924-1926). Half of the new texts are literary, mostly from the library of the tax collector Socrates; the others are documents that can shed new light on the activities of the tax collector or of other inhabitants of Karanis. They give us a vivid picture of village life in Graeco-Roman Egypt in the 2nd century AD.