P.Mich.inv. 186 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 186
- Processing Number
- 1540
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 8.5 x 9.4 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 15
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- Broken off at the bottom, and partly on the right side; damaged along the folds
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 199-200 A.D.
- Origin
- Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Timon, son of Timon
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Statement under Oath
- Content
- Statement of sale of some land, confirmed with an imperial oath, and directed to the strategos
- Subject Headings
- Greeks--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Oaths--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Land titles--Registration and transfer--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Land use, Rural--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Persons
- Anoubion, strategos of the Themistou meris and of the Polemonos meris;
- Titmon son of Timon grandson of Didymos, Hellen;
- Septimius Severus and Caracalla, emperors
- Geographica
- Themistou meris, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nom; Moeris (amphodon of Arsinoiton polis)
- Translation
- To Anoubion, strategos of the Themistos and Polemon divisions of the Arsinoite nome, Timon son of Timon and grandson of Didymos, a Greek, registered in the quarter of Moeris. I swear by the genius of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Arabicus Adiabenicus Parthicus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Augusti, that I have sold the [three] arourai belonging to me in the village [of - - -] on the west side, [- - -] . . . [- - -]
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1540
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections BASP 12 Sijpesteijn PJ 1975 95-96 Sijpesteijn PJ, BASP 12, 95-96, 1975 PMich XV Sijpesteijn PJ 1982 702 Pl. X Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XV, 702, 1982, Pl. X -- L. 4: read amphodo(u) instead of amphodou; l. 13: read probably: pros me . [. .] e?n apheseo[s, instead of: pros me k[ai] adelphous m[ou (see also editor's note). (TG+PH); P.Worp 21, 1n (p. 154) (date) L. 4: read amphodo(u) instead of amphodou; l. 13: read probably: pros me . [. .] e?n apheseo[s, instead of: pros me k[ai] adelphous m[ou (see also editor's note). (TG+PH); P.Worp 21, 1n (p. 154) (date)
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- s
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 199
- Year End
- 200
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2790 x 2392
- File Size
- 888 KB
- Record
- 1540
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1540/186r.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 186; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1540/186r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2025.