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P.Mich.inv. 1614; Verso

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Description

Inventory Number
P.Mich.inv. 1614
Processing Number
1490
Section/Side
Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side
Recto; Verso contains illegible traces of an address (along the fibers).
Connections
-
Material
Pap
Size
12 x 10.8 cm.
Items
1
Lines
1-7
Mounted
No
Negative
Yes
Conservation Status
This medium-brown papyrus is regularly cut off at all sides except at the bottom, where it appears to have been torn off. The sheet is in a fairly good condition with only minor damages.
Palaeographic Description
The handwriting may be assigned to the sixth century A.D., cf. P. Graec. Berol. 45 (525 A.D.) and P. Lugd. Bat. XIX 21 (6th century A.D.). Though written in a quick semicursive hand, the text leaves an elegant impression, not least because of the straightness of the lines and the regularity of the hand. Upper margin is approximately 1.7 cm., left margin varying between 0.5 cm. and 1 cm., and at the right the writing extends to the edge of the papyrus in lines 1 and 5. At the bottom, line 7 is practically lost as the sheet breaks off between lines 6 and 7, leaving only traces of the writing on line 7.
Status
published
Library
Ann Arbor

Contents

Date
VIth century A.D.
Origin
Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt
Provenance
Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt
Acquisition
November 1924
Language
Greek
Genre
documentary
Author
Apa Hor
Type of Text/Title of Work
letter
Content
This papyrus contains the beginning of a letter addressed to a landowner (geouchos). The sender, Apa Hor, reports on the activities of one Peter, an assistant (boethos) connected with the Oxyrhynchite village of Tholthis. We learn that Peter entered a hamlet (epoikion) belonging to the landowner and perpetrated an act described by the verb epiasen. At this point the sheet breaks off and leaves us in the dark about the sequel.
Subject Headings
Bahnas¯a (Egypt)
Oxyrhynchite Nome (Egypt)
Land tenure--Oxyrhynchite Nome (Egypt)
Complaint letters--Oxyrhynchite Nome (Egypt)
Theft--Oxyrhynchite Nome (Egypt)
Trespass--Oxyrhyncite nome|Egypt.
Villages--Oxyrhynchite Nome (Egypt)
Persons
Apa Hor,
Peter
Geographica
Tholthis
Translation
"To my lord landowner, truly in all ways for me most admirable and virtuous, (from) Apa Hor. Peter, the assistant of the village of Tholthis, entered your nobility's hamlet and seized . . ."

Information on Publications

Publications
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections
Miscellanea Papyrologica Browne GM 1980 31-2 SB XVI 12485 Browne GM, Miscellanea Papyrologica, 31-2, 1980 -- SB XVI 12485

Cataloging

Cataloger
TC
Year Begin
500
Year End
599

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