P.Mich.inv. 3720 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3720
- Processing Number
- 2062
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 19.5 x 29.3 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Front: 1-22
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- A light-brown papyrus with a dark strip 1 c. from the left edge. At the right side a strip of papyrus (1.1 cm. broad at the bottom) with horizontal fibers is visible. We are probably dealing with a piece of papyrus which originally was a protocollon.
- Palaeographic Description
- Cursive hands typical of the Byzantine period.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- October 1, 507 A. D.
- Origin
- Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt (?)
- Acquisition
- purchased by Prof. Boak in 1925 (report submitted by H.I. Bell, dated May 2, 1925); described as coming from Behneseh (Oxyrhynchus)
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Aurelius Pelagios, son of David and Thekla
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Sale for future delivery
- Content
- Acknowledgement of Aurelius Pelagios of the receipt of a specific grain amount from Aurelius Victor and a pledge later to deliver to Aurelius Victor the exact same amount in new grain.
- Persons
- Flavius Anastasius,
- Venantius,
- Aurelius Pelagios, son of David and Thekla,
- Aurelius Victor, son of Phoibammon,
- Abraamios, comes,
- Aurelius Samuel, son of Serenos,
- Pelagios, son of David
- Geographica
- Nesmimis,
- Oxyrhynchos
- Translation
- Front: "In the consulship of our master Flavius Anastasius the eternal Augustus for the 3rd time and the most illustrious Venantius, Phaophi 3, 1st indiction. Aurelius Pelagios, son of David and Thekla, from the village of Nesmimis in the Oxyrhynchite nome to Aurelius Victor, son of Phoibammon, - - - of the most magnificent comes Abraamios of the city of the Oxhynchites, greetings. I acknowledge that, in full, I have received from you now the mutually concluded and to me agreeable price of thirty-one artabas of wheat and twenty artabas of barley, total 31 art. of wheat and 20 art. of barley, which products I shall dutifully deliver to you in barley and wheat that is new, pure, and sifted, by the proper tenth measure in the month of Payni of the current year from the new harvest of the D. V. second indiction with no delay acknowledging your right of execution upon me and upon all my belongings. The contract written in one copy is enforceable and in reply to the formal question I have so declared. (2nd hd.). I, Aurelius Pelagios, son of DAvid, the aforementioned have received in full the price of thirty-one artabas of wheat and of twenty artabas of barley and I shall deliver them within the appointed time and I agree with all the above-written. I, Aurelius Samuel, son of Serenos, have written for him at his request since he does not know letters. (3rd hd.) | Through me, N. N., it has been accomplished.
- back: "Cheirograph of Pelagios, son of David, of the village of Nesmimis of 31 art. of wheat and 20 art. of barley."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2062
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections ZPE 62 Sijpesteijn PJ 1986 137-40 SB XVIII, 13947 Sijpesteijn PJ, ZPE 62, 137-40, 1986 -- SB XVIII, 13947 -- BL IX, 309 (l. 23) BL IX, 309 (l. 23)
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 507
- Year End
- 507
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 7333 x 5835
- File Size
- 6 MB
- Record
- 2062
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2062/3720v.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 3720; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2062/3720v.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.