P.Mich.inv. 3221 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3221
- Processing Number
- 1885
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto (written across the fibres) + Verso
- Connections
- Zenon archive
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 10 x 26.5 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 27;
- Verso - 7
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- Slightly broken on the right side. The inner text was found sealed up, the sealing being a mere lump of clay without any design
- Palaeographic Description
- Recto written across the fibres
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- May 254 B.C.[?]
- Origin
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Provenance
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Acquisition
- November 1925; Acquired from Brummer
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Petosiris
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Order for Payment
- Content
- Order, written in the form of a duplicate letter, for payment of a stone-cutter and of several masons for their work on two houses
- Subject Headings
- Contracts for work and labor--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Cities and towns--Officials and employees--Egypt.
- House construction--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Masonry--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Drachma.
- Measures and weights, Ancient.
- Wages--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Petosiris (see Pros.Ptol. V 13302);
- Theupompos (Theopompos) (see Pros.Ptol. V 13178; Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 341);
- Teos, laxos (see Pros.Ptol. V 13124 = 13115);
- Nestos (see Pros.Ptol. III 7996 + add.);
- Harentotes, oikodomos (see Pros.Ptol. V 13163);
- Amphiom (Amphiomis), oikodomos (see Pros.Ptol. V 13162);
- Psenpseebis (see Pros.Ptol. V 13225);
- Diotimos (hypodioiketes) (see Pros.Ptol. I 28 = 906 = IV 10075)
- Geographica
- Philadelpheia
- Translation
- (Recto)
- Petosiris to Theopompos greeting. Give to Teos the stone-cutter as wages for a stone door which he agreed to cut in the house of Nestos 6 drachmai, and to Harentotes the mason fpr [beams] to cut and suspend the beams and build them in, 1 drachme, 1 obol, and to Amphiom the mason and Psenpseebis for plastering the ceilings, in the house of Diotimos, of [. . .] dining-rooms with five couches [. . . 14 1/2 cubits(?) <OR: obols(?)>, at the rate of . . . for each room, equal 7 drachmai, 2 1/2 obols, towards which he has 1 drachme 1 obol, and for levelling the floors in the house of Diotimos 2 drachmai.
- Petosiris to Theopompos greeting. Give to Teos the stone-cutter as wages for a stone [door] which he agreed to cut in the house of Nestos 6 drachmai, and to Harentotes [the mason for beams] to cut and suspend the beams and build them in, 1 drachme, 1 obol, and to Amphiom [the mason] and Psenpseebis for [plastering the ceilings, in] the house of Diotimos, [of . . . dining-rooms with five couches . . . ]14 1/2 cubits(?) <OR: obols(?)>, 7 drachmai, 2 1/2 obols, towards [which he has 1 drachme 1 obol, and] for levelling the floors in the house [of Diotimos] 2 drachmai.
- Farewell. Year 31(?), Phamenoth . . .
- (Verso)
- (1st docket, probably cancelled, too fragmentary to be translated)
- (2nd docket) For the house of Diotimos in Philadelpheia: for plastering the ceilings of [. . .] dining-rooms with five couches [- - -] and for levelling the floors, 2 drachmai. Total [- - -]
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich I Edgar CC 1931 37 Edgar CC, PMich I, 37, 1931 -- BL VI, 84 (l. 11); BL VIII, 220 (bibliography). - L. 11 and 24: 14 1/2 is probably a number of cubits (as proposed in the ed.pr.) rather than of drachmai or obols (as proposed by M. Nowicka), as there are strokes above each number. (PH). BL VI, 84 (l. 11); BL VIII, 220 (bibliography). - L. 11 and 24: 14 1/2 is probably a number of cubits (as proposed in the ed.pr.) rather than of drachmai or obols (as proposed by M. Nowicka), as there are strokes above each number. (PH).
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- M. Nowicka, La maison privee dans l'Egypte ptolemaique (Wroclaw, 1969) p. 140, n. 124; G. Husson, OIKIA. Le vocabulaire de la maison privee en Egypte d'apres les papyrus grecs (Paris, 1983) p. 302-306 (with earlier bibliography on the house of Diotimos).
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- -254
- Year End
- -254
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3984 x 6630
- File Size
- 3 MB
- Record
- 1885
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