P.Mich.inv. 523 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 523
- Processing Number
- 2393
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 13/5 x 13.5 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-13
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- This light-brown document is regularly cut on all sides but damaged at the top and bottom. A kollesis near the right edge. (TC)
- Palaeographic Description
- This document is written in a sloping semi-cursive hand, probably to be dated in the fourth century.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IVth century A.D.
- Origin
- unknown
- Provenance
- unknown
- Acquisition
- purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920
- Language
- Coptic
- Genre
- documentary
- Author
- unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- list of money and utensils
- Content
- This papyrus contains a list of money and utensils, provided for the sister of the writer; the reason for the provision is not stated, but may have been made because the father was away in another village.
- Subject Headings
- Swine--Egypt.
- Sheep--Egypt.
- Wine and wine making--Egypt.
- Sisters--Egypt.
- Bread--Egypt.
- Oils and fats--Egypt.
- Cupboards--Egypt.
- Hides and skins--Egypt.
- Fathers--Egypt.
- Bronze implements--Egypt.
- Pots--Egypt.
- Knives--Egypt.
- Persons
- -
- Geographica
- Nemhate
- Translation
- "The account of the utensils which I provide for my sister.
- For the year in which my father dwelt in Nemhate, that is, the fifteenth year of the indiction. 8 nomismata
- The eleventh year of the indiction: for loaves of bread and wine which she sold while I was in Nemhate and kept for herself: total - - 6 nomismata
- For the pig which she sold 10 nomismata
- For the utensils which she received from
- my father 2 knives
- Bronze utensils 3
- Garments of sheepskin (?) 2
- A vessel holding a spathion (?) of oil 1
- A pot 1
- A large cupboard (?) 1."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2393
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections BASP 19 Husselman EM 1982 61-2 Photo Husselman EM, BASP 19, 61-2, 1982, Photo
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 300
- Year End
- 399
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4309 x 4583
- File Size
- 3 MB
- Record
- 2393
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2393/523r.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 523; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2393/523r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.