P.Mich.inv. 3639 / Verso

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 3639

Processing Number

2025

Section/Side

Recto + Verso

Image Side

Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto + Verso

Connections

Zenon archive

Material

Pap

Size

34 x 27.5 cm

Items

1

Lines

Verso, Text (a), col. I - 3; col. II - 4; col. III - 4;

Verso, Text (b) - 6;

Recto, Text (c) - 8;

Recto, Text (d), col. I - 10; col. II - 9;

Recto, Text (e) - 6

See also note for the disposition of the texts and for the other figures on Recto and Verso.

Mounted

Yes

Negative

No

Conservation Status

broken off on the left and right sides; damaged

Palaeographic Description

Text (a) in the careful hand of Zenon; text (d) in small cursive writing (Edgar)

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

256/255 B.C. (or later) (text a); 245/244 B.C. (or later) (text e); 244/243 B.C. (or later) (text d)

Origin

Unknown place, Egypt

Provenance

Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt

Acquisition

May 2, 1925; Acquired from Nahman lot.

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

(Zenon) (text a); unknown

Type of Text/Title of Work

Various Accounts

Content

The papyrus was used and re-used to write several accounts:

(a) account of sales of wines;

(b) concerns also wine;

(c) account of monthly receipts of money;

(d) account of money given to Onnophris, one of Zenon's native farmers, and expended by him on various objects

(e) another account, of much later date.

Finally, parts both of recto and of verso are covered with figures representing sums of money up to several thousand drachmai.

Subject Headings

Agriculture--Accounting--Egypt.

Drachma.

Measures and weights, Ancient.

Farm produce--Marketing--Egypt.

Wine and wine making--Egypt.

Persons

Timagenes (see Pros.Ptol. IV 11785);

Aristokrates (see Pros.Ptol. IV 11251);

Damas;

Antigones (Antigenes? Antigonos?), Ioudaios;

Phiminis, son of Phen- - -;

Onnophris (see Pros.Ptol. I 522 + add.; IV 10335);

Laommaasos (Laommaasos)(?) son of Teous (gen.) (see Pros.Ptol. V 13943);

Anosis (son of Thotorches) (see Pros.Ptol. I 786 + add.; V 12978 = VIII 514b; Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 287)

Geographica

Phys; Ioudaios

Translation

(Text a)

[- - -] and 9 keramia of wine of the 29th year, from the vineyard of Timagenes, 65 drachmai. Of these [[sour wine]].

They bring wine of the 30th year, of the (wineyard) to be sold through Aristokrates in Phys, 75 1/2 choes of wine at 4 obols each, 49 drachmai 4 obols 1/2. Of these, on Mesore 25, - - - 21 drachmai 4 obols, the rest being 28 drachmai 1/2 obol.

(Text b)

. . . and also another keramion of the wine (obtained) by Aristokrates.

[Paid to] us by Damas, for what he still owed . . .

Antigones the Jew, 28 keramia

Phiminis, son of Phen- - -, . . keramia

(Text c)

[- - -]

Phamenoth: 109 drachmai 3 obols

Pharmouthi: 74 drachmai

Pachons: 38 drachmai

Pauni: 33 drachmai 5 obols

Epeiph 14 drachmai

(equal) 326 (drachmai) 2 obols. Of these, 292 drachmai:

remain 34 drachmai 2 obols. Of these, 9 drachmai 4 obols:

remain [[25]] 24 drachmai 4 obols.

(In margin of l. 7-8) 28 drachmai 5 obols: remains . . .

(Text d)

(Col. I)

To Onnophris: 307 (drachmai) 1/2 obol. Of these:

for the labour-costs of the sesame-land: 50 (drachmai)

for the reaping: 100 (drachmai); of these 29 (drachmai) 3/4 obols, remain 70 (drachmai) 5 1/4 obols

for the purchase of oxen 20 (drachmai), = 170 (drachmai)

and for 104 1/2 (artabai) of wheat which he owes - - - of the 3rd year, 174 1/6 (artabai) at 2 1/4 obols each, 66 (drachmai) 1 1/4 obol

(equal) 236 (drachmai) 1 1/4 obol.

Remain 70 drachmai 5 1/4 obols. (Plus) 29 (drachmai) 3/4 obol, (equals) 100 (drachmai).

(Col. II)

For the reaping, 100 (drachmai), and for the labour-costs of the sesame-land, 50 (drachmai);

for the purchase of oxen, 20 (drachmai);

equal 170 (drachmai);

and the price of the grain, 66 (drachmai) 1 1/4 obol,

equal 236 (drachmai) 1 1/4 obol.

Remaining: 83 (drachmai) 4 3/4 obols.

(Text e)

Epeiph 22. Laommasos(?) son of Teous, for the breakage of jars he made from the wine brought down to . . . in the 2nd year . . . of copper 10 drachmai 2 1/2 obols

Laommaasos(?) son of Teous . . . the wine of the produces of year 2, given to him for payment 3 1/4 obols of copper.

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2025

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich I	Edgar CC	1931	30	Edgar CC, PMich I, 30, 1931
CPJ I	Fuks A-Tcherikover V	1957	8 (text (b) only)	Fuks A-Tcherikover V, CPJ I, 8 (text (b) only), 1957 -- Text b, line 6: read Phiminis rather than Philinis; text d, line 7: read 3 (etous), not 33 (etous); some minor changes. (PH)	Text b, line 6: read Phiminis rather than Philinis; text d, line 7: read 3 (etous), not 33 (etous); some minor changes. (PH)

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

H. Cadell-G. Le Rider, Prix du blé et numéraire dans l'Égypte lagide de 305 à 173 (Bruxelles, 1997) p. 51

Availability/System Requirements

Institution

sc

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

-256

Year End

-244

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

4208 x 3427

File Size

2 MB

Record

2025

Link to this Item

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