A 1900-year-old papyrus found in the Judean desert turns out to be a document written by a prosecutor detailing a complex tax evasion scheme of the two men on trial.
A 1900-year-old papyrus found in the Judean desert turns out to be a document written by a prosecutor detailing a complex tax evasion scheme of the two men on trial.
TLDR: it showed that legal training was robust and even in the provinces a Roman lawyer was competent. The tax evasion involved the enslaved being freed? And you don’t fuck with Roman tax collectors.