P.Mich.inv. 1954 / Verso

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 1954

Processing Number

1556

Section/Side

Recto + Verso

Image Side

Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto + Verso

Connections

-

Material

Pap

Size

19.0 x 20.0 cm.

Items

3

Lines

recto: 1-31

verso: 1-10

Mounted

No

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

The surviving part of this medium-brown papyrus now consists of three joining fragments, only cut off rather regularly at the right. It was broken on the middle and there is now a rather large abrasion in the center. Another piece of papyrus has been broken off at center right.

Palaeographic Description

The hand is an irregular medium-sized capital, roughly bilinear and sloping slightly towards the right. Somewhat comparable is R. Seider, Palaeographie der Griech. Papyri II, 48. The present text might, however, be dated a little later, possibly to the end of the third or beginning of the fourth century. There are no marks of punctuation, but a number of the lines are finished with oblique or horizontal dashes (ll. 2-4; 5 and 8).

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

End of IIIrd century - beginning of IVth century A.D.

Origin

Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt

Provenance

Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt

Acquisition

November 1924

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Aurelius Demetrius

Type of Text/Title of Work

Acknowledgement of sale; (verso) literary exercise

Content

Letter in which Aurelius Demetrius acknowledges the sale of a house and a courtyard and all its appurtenances belonging to his daughter, Aurelia Demetria aliasTaamois.

Subject Headings

administration

private economy

house ownership

property sale

guardianship

topography (Oxyrhynchus and the Oxyrhynchite nome).

Persons

Aurelius Demetrius, son of Aurelius Ammon, his mother being Didyme,

Aurelii Serenus and Seuthes, both sons of Sarapas, their mother being N,

Aurelia Demetria alias Taamois, her mother being Taamois,

Romaeus,

Taseus,

Aurelius Melas, son of Melas, the husband of Demetria aliasTaamois

Geographica

city of the Oxyrhynchites,

village of the Syrians,

western toparchy

Translation

"Aurelius Demetrius son of Aurelius Ammon, his mother being Didyme, from the city of the Oxyrhynchites, to the Aurelii Serenus and Seuthes, both sons of Sarapas, their mother being N, from the same city, greetings. I acknowledge that I have sold to you with every right from henceforth for all time the house and courtyard and all its appurtenances belonging to my daughter Aurelia Demetria alias Taamois, her mother being Taamois, from the same city, who is under my power in accordance with the laws of the Romans, in the village of the Syrians in the Western Toparchy of the same Oxyrhynchitein the middle part of the same village, of which the neighbours are: on the south, the property formerly of Romaeus; on the north, a public street beside which is the temple of Zeus; on the east, in the northern a meeting house of the same temple, and in the southern part the property of Taseus and her co-owners; on the west, property of mine, at a price for the same house and courtyard of n thousand drachmas of Imperial silver, which likewise I have forthwith received from you as payment from hand to hand in full, and in response to the formal question by you I have agreed that I have had counted out the money in full, so that from now on you with all your descendants and successors may have possession and ownership of the same house and courtyard, and use, deal with, and act concerning it however you may choose without impediment, no right of proceeding against it remaining to me or anyone else on my behalf. And I shall necessarily deliver it over guaranteed in perpetuity against all claims with every guarantee and free from liability for personal service and cultivation of royal and domain land and from every impost and every debt and every sort of lien and from everything else whatsoever. And every person, who in any manner whatsoever shall proceed against or make a claim upon you, I shall at once repel at my own expense as if in consequence of a legal decision. I, Aurelius Melas son of Melas, concillor of the same city, the husband of Demetria alias Taamois, being present consent to this sale. The sale is valid, being written in three copies, and whenever you choose you may publicly register it through the record office, without requiring any further concurrence or consent from me by virtue of my consent herein. And in response to the formal question whether this sale has been made in the right and proper manner, I have agreed."

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1556

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
Tyche 4	Whitehorne J	1989	188-91	SB XX 14681	Whitehorne J, Tyche 4, 188-91, 1989 -- SB XX 14681

Cataloging

Cataloger

TC

Year Begin

250

Year End

350

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

5716 x 5202

File Size

4 MB

Record

1556

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1556/1954v.tif content_copy

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