P.Mich.inv. 3769 / Recto

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P.Mich.inv. 3769

Record Details

Inventory Number: P.Mich.inv. 3769
Processing Number: 2101
Section/Side: Recto
Image Side: Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side: Recto; Verso is blank
Connections: -
Material: Pap
Size: fr. a. 9.2 x 8.5 cm.; 9.0 x 18.5 cm.
Items: 2
Lines: 1 - 30
Mounted: No
Negative: Yes
Conservation Status: The papyrus consists of two fragments, an upper and a lower, which, although they can be placed in close proximity to one another, do not physically join. Probably one line, if not more, is lost between the fragments.
Palaeographic Description: Written in a large and clear semicursive. (TC) After a vertical space of ca. 2 cm., traces of the very ends of 5 lines of the subscription written in a different hand.
Status: published
Library: Ann Arbor

Date: 557 A.D.
Origin: Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt (Richter)
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 Aphouas
Type of Text/Title of Work: Sale on delivery
Content: Aurelius Aphouas, an oil manufacturer, having received a satisfsactory price, will during a specified future month deliver to the buyer twelve artabas of soap (or ointment) made from kiki oil.
Persons: Flavius Justinianus, emperor,; Flavius Basilius,; Aurelius Aphouas, son of Anpses, his mother being Annis,; . . ., son of Philoxenos.
Geographica: The Great Border estate,; Oxyrhynchite nome,; City of Oxyrhynchite
Translation: "In the 30th year of the reign of our most divine and most august ruler, Flavius Justinianus, the most eternal Augustus and emperor, the 15th year after the consulship of the most brilliant Flavius Basilius, Mecheir the 2nd, in the 5th indiction.; Aurelius Aphouas, son of Anpses, his mother being Annis, oil manufacturer by trade, from the Great Border estate of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to . . . son of Philoxenos, from the brilliant city of Oxyrhynchites, greetings,; I agree that I have received from your Brilliancy the price here found satisfactory by me for the manufacture of twelve artabas of . . . suitable . . . I shall perforce pay over to you in the cobler's measure in the month of . . . of the present fifth indiction from new fruits of the (Deo volemte) sixth epinemesis without delay . . . "
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Information on Publications

Publications: Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections

ZPE 34 Keenan JG 1979 142-6 Pl X SB XVI 12585 Keenan JG, ZPE 34, 142-6, 1979, Pl X -- SB XVI 12585 -- BL VIII, 384 (l. 7); BL IX, 287 (provenance; l. 19; 22) BL VIII, 384 (l. 7); BL IX, 287 (provenance; l. 19; 22)

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography: M. Richter, ZPE 86 (1991) p. 253; P.Heid. V, p. 307, n. 59; p. 323, n. 220

Cataloging

Cataloger: TC
Year Begin: 557
Year End: 557

Technical Details

Collection: Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)
Image Size: 4439 x 8223
File Size: 5 MB
Record: 2101
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2101/3769r.tif

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Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
ZPE 34	Keenan JG	1979	142-6	Pl X	SB XVI 12585	Keenan JG, ZPE 34, 142-6, 1979, Pl X -- SB XVI 12585 -- BL VIII, 384 (l. 7); BL IX, 287 (provenance; l. 19; 22)	BL VIII, 384 (l. 7); BL IX, 287 (provenance; l. 19; 22)