P.Mich.inv. 487 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 487
- Processing Number
- 2331
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 14 x 17 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 21;
- Verso - 1
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- Broken half at the top and bottom
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- VIth century A.D.
- Origin
- Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt
- Provenance
- Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt
- Acquisition
- purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Aurelius Onnophris, son of Rachel
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Sale in Advance of Wine, Grain and Vegetable Seed
- Content
- Contract by which Aurelius Onnophris, son of Rachel, acknowledges to have received the price of 4 gold solidi for goods (both dry crops and wine) to delivered at the next harvest
- Persons
- Phib son of Mosch;
- Aurelius Onophrios (Onnophris) son of Rachel
- Translation
- [- - - I acknowledge that I have received from you four gold solidi and that I will deliver to you eighteen artabai of barley, eighteen artabai of wheat,] four and one-half artabai of vegetable seed, and two hundred five-sextarii jars of wine, total 4 gold solidi for 18 art. barley, 18 art. wheat, 4 1/2 art. vegetable seed, and 200 five-sextarii jars of wine. This wheat, barley, and vegetable seed I will necessarily deliver to you in the month of Pauni of the first indiction, new, clean, and seived, by the measure of Phib, son of Mosch; this wine, for which you shall supply the vessels, I will necessarily deliver at the vat, in the form of unadulerated must, in the vintage of the month of Mesore, from the wine vintage of the first indiction, the crops of the second indiction, without delay; and I guarantee the goodness and durability of the wine up to and including the whole month of Tybi, and if there be found in it any sour or inferior wines I will replace them and supply you with the same amount in wine of the best quality, at the risk of my property, which is mortgaged (to you) for this. The document, written in one copy, is valid, and whena sked the formal question I so declared.
- I, the afore-mentioned Aurelius Onophrios, son of Rachel, have received the price in full and all the terms are satisfactory to me as above stated.
- (Verso)
- [- - -] 18 artabai of barley, 18 artabai of wheat, 4 1/2 artabai of vegetable seed, and [- - -]
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2331
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich XI Shelton JC 1971 608 Shelton JC, PMich XI, 608, 1971 -- BL IX 162 (l. 1, 1-3, 9). BL IX 162 (l. 1, 1-3, 9).
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- P.Heid. V, p. 107; 299; 323; N. Kruit, ZPE 94 (1992) p. 178-179
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 500
- Year End
- 599
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4608 x 3480
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 2331
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2331/487v_a.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 487; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2331/487v_a.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2025.