P.Mich.inv. 441 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 441
- Processing Number
- 2207
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 19 x 28 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 25;
- Verso - 2
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- quite damaged in the lower part
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- September 27, 412 A.D.
- Origin
- probably Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt
- Provenance
- probably Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt
- Acquisition
- purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920
- Language
- Greek
- 1 signature in Latin (l. 25)
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Aurelius Elias, son of Kollouthos
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Lease of Land
- Content
- A one-year lease of 30 3/4 arourai of land near the village of Plelo in the Oxyrhynchite nome, the rent to be paid in wheat, barley, vegetables, and grass
- Subject Headings
- Agriculture
- Literacy--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Inheritance
- Irrigation
- Land Ownership
- Lease
- Plel¯o (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Honorius, Emperor & consul;
- Theodosius, Emperor & consul;
- (unnamed) kleronomoi of Phoibammon;
- Phoibammon, doux, deceased;
- Aurelius Elias son of Kollouthos;
- Paeianos (see Geographica);
- Aurelius [- - -]
- Geographica
- Oxyrhynchiton polis; epoikion Knapheos = epoikion Gnapheon; kome Plelo; edaphos Paeianou kaloumenon
- Translation
- Year after the 9th consulship of our lord Honorius and the 4th of our lord Theodosius, the eternal Augusti. Thoth 30.
- To the heirs of Phoibammon of glorious memory, formerly duke, landholders in the city of Oxyrhynchus, from Aurelius Elias, son of Kollouthos, from Fuller's Farmstead in the same nome.
- I willingly undertake to lease from the present 89th = 58th year for the cropof the twelfth indiction, of the property belonging to you in the arable area of the village Plelo, in the field called Paeianos, a . . . water wheel outfitted and serving thirty and three-quarters arourai. Fifteen arourai are to be sown in wheat at the fixed rent of one hundred twenty artabai of wheat; five arourai in barley, at the fixed rent of one hundred twenty artabai of wheat; five arourai in barley, at a rent for these of forty artabai of barley; two arourai in vegetables, at a rent for these off six and a half artabai four choinikes of vegetables; and of the remaining eight arourai and three-quarters in grass, you are to have four and three-eighths(?) arourai in grass. The rent is free of all risk, and the public dues are to be paid by you, the landlords. And I will necessarily deliver the rent by the paralemptic measure at the fitting time without delay; and I will maintain the dikes. The lease is valid, and when asked the formal question I so declared.
- (2nd hand) I, Aurelius Elias, son of Kollouthos, have leased the land and will deliver the rent as stated. I, Aurelius . . ., wrote for him, as he is illiterate.
- (1st? hand, in Latin). (Drawn up) by me, . . .
- (Verso)
- Lease of a water wheel serving Phaeianos' field to Elias, son of Kollouthos, from Fullers'
- . . .
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2207
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich XI Shelton JC 1971 611 Shelton JC, PMich XI, 611, 1971 -- BL VII, 115 (l. 7); BL X, 125 (l. 14-15; 20) BL VII, 115 (l. 7); BL X, 125 (l. 14-15; 20)
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- R.S. Bagnall-K.A. Worp, Mnemosyne 31 (1978) p. 288-290; G. Schwendner, Tyche 10 (1995) p. 245
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 412
- Year End
- 412
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3288 x 4464
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 2207
- Link to this Item
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"P.Mich.inv. 441; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2207/441r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.