P.Mich.inv. 4962 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 4962
- Processing Number
- 2355
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 8.5 x 9.0 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-15
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- This medium-brown papyrus is regularly cut off at all four sides and the only significant damage is a rather large abrasion in the center of the papyrus.
- Palaeographic Description
- Written in a small neat hand with many loops and florishes.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 266/267 A.D.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Provenance
- Unknown
- Acquisition
- purchased in 1928
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Sworn declaration of property
- Content
- Contains the lower part of a declaration of property formerly belonging to a certain Aurelius Alexander, son of Chaeremon
- Subject Headings
- Land title--Registration and transfer--Egypt.
- Persons
- Aurelius Alexander;
- Chaeremon;
- Taheracleides;
- Imperator Caesar Publius Licinnius Gallienus Germanicus Maximus Persicus Maximus [Pius] Felix Augustus, emperor
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- ". . . [according to] the memorandum [lodged in] Year 11, Epeiph 15, by right of purchase, formerly (the property) of Aurelius Alexander son of Chaeremon whose mother is Taheracleides from the same city and previous to him (the property) of the former owners in respect of the half part as disclosed via the same memorandum. [And when] I come to declaration, I shall produce the entitlement to the remaining half. And I swear the accustomed oath of the Romans that I have not lied.
- Year 14 of Imperator Caesar Publius Licinnius Gallienus Germanicus Persicus Maximus [Pius] Felix Augustus."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2355
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections Aegyptus 71 Whitehorne J 1991 17-20 SB XX 14131 Whitehorne J, Aegyptus 71, 17-20, 1991 -- SB XX 14131
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 266
- Year End
- 267
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3483 x 4660
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 2355
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2355/4962r.tif
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- Manifest
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:2355
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- Full citation
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"P.Mich.inv. 4962; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2355/4962r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 06, 2025.