P.Corn. Inv. II 9 / Recto

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P.Corn. Inv. II 9

Record Details

Inventory Number: P.Corn. Inv. II 9
Processing Number: 1287
Section/Side: Recto
Image Side: Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side: Recto; Verso is blank
Connections: -
Material: Pap
Size: 9.4 x 21.2 cm
Items: 1
Lines: 1-35
Mounted: No
Negative: No
Conservation Status: Light-brown papyrus regularly cut off at all sides. Nokolleseis visible. One fold visible along the left margin of the text. Minor abrasions at the top and in the center.
Palaeographic Description: 1st hand (1-30): written in a small and flowing semicursive hand; 2nd hand (30-35) in a quicker hand sloping slightly to the right. Generous margins to the left (1.5 cm.), at th etop (2 cm) and at the bottom (4.2 cm)
Status: published
Library: Ann Arbor

Date: 119 A.D
Origin: Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Provenance: Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt (?)
Acquisition: In 1922 through the agency of the British Museum for Cornell University; handed over to the University of Michigan in 1972.
Language: Greek
Genre: Documentary
Author: Lucius Vettius . . .
Type of Text/Title of Work: Lease
Content: Lucius Vettius leases farm land with date palms from Lucius Longinus Fronto
Subject Headings: Farmers--Rome.; Agricultural laborers--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city); Date palm--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city); Land tenure--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
Persons: Lucius Longinus Fronto,; Frontinus Longinus Apella,; Lucius Vettius. . .; Hadrianus
Geographica: Philadelphia
Translation: "To Lucius Longinus Frontinus, through Frontinus Longinus Apella, from Luccius Vettius . . . I wish to lease from you one and a half aroura of land near Philadelphia belonging to Fronto, in which are scattered date palms whatsoever he may now be growing, the land being also an undivided portion of a three aroura plot, for four years, namely four fruit crops, four sown crops, (reckoning) the date palms on the basis that all the hanging fruits of the present 3rd year of Hadrianus Caesar our lord are included in the 4 years' crops, and the farm plot as (leased) from the coming 4 years' crop, the rent of the farm land and the date palms to be one hundred and twenty drachmas annually without deductions and without risk, the farm labors resting upon me, the lessee. And I will pay the rent as follow, in . . . forty drachmas, and the remaining eighty drachmas in the month of . . . And at the end of the time I will hand back the farm plot after the harvest, if it is agreed to make the lease. 2nd hand. I, Lucius Longinus, through Apella, have made the lease on all the foregoing conditions as laid down above. Year 3 of Hadrian our lord, Mesore 30th."
Papyri.info Link: https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1287

Information on Publications

Publications: Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections

PCorn Westermann WL - Kraemer CJ 1926 10 Westermann WL - Kraemer CJ, PCorn, 10, 1926 -- BL II.2,47 on lines 7-8;IV,24 on line 8;III,46 on line 12; VIII, 89 on line 10; X on the dating. BL II.2,47 on lines 7-8;IV,24 on line 8;III,46 on line 12; VIII, 89 on line 10; X on the dating.

Cataloging

Cataloger: TC
Year Begin: 119
Year End: 119

Technical Details

Collection: Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)
Image Size: 3840 x 5397
File Size: 3 MB
Record: 1287
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1287/c2_9r.tif

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Full citation: "P.Corn. Inv. II 9; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1287/c2_9r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PCorn	Westermann WL - Kraemer CJ	1926	10	Westermann WL - Kraemer CJ, PCorn, 10, 1926 -- BL II.2,47 on lines 7-8;IV,24 on line 8;III,46 on line 12; VIII, 89 on line 10; X on the dating.	BL II.2,47 on lines 7-8;IV,24 on line 8;III,46 on line 12; VIII, 89 on line 10; X on the dating.