P.Mich.inv. 5806

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 5806

Processing Number

2555

Section/Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto

Material

Pap

Size

32.5 x 21.7 cm

Items

1

Lines

Col. I - 41

Col. II - 47

Mounted

No

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

slightly broken off on the right lower edge

Palaeographic Description

clear and practised hand

Status

published

Library

Cairo

Contents

Date

(After) 138 A.D.

Origin

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Provenance

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition

30-BS230-A (2).

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Unknown

Type of Text/Title of Work

Copy of a Settlement of Debt and Extracts from Census Registers

Content

The papyrus groups 4 different items: 1) a copy of the settlement of a debt, by which Gaius Sempronius Priscus alias Ammon cedes to his brother and creditor Marcus Sempronius Vestinus his ownership on a fraction of a house and on a family of 4 slaves (original of 121 A.D.); 2) an extract from the census register of 131/132 A.D., describing the household of Apronios son of Marcus and of his mother Kronous; 3) an extract from the census register of 117/118 A.D., describing the same household; 4) an extract from the census register of 131/132 A.D., describing the household of Sempronia Akousarion (sister of the Sempronii of the first copied document) and her son Gaius Sempronius Diogenes, including the family of slaves appearing in the first copied document.

Subject Headings

Debtor and creditor--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Slavery--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Citizenship--Rome.

Census--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Inheritance and succession--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Home ownership--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Courtyards--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Tax exemption--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Poll tax--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Persons

Gaius Sempronius Priscus alias Ammon;

Marcus Sempronius Vestinus, his brother;

Hediste, slave ceded by Gaius Sempronius Priscus alias Ammon to his brother, later slave partly belonging to their sister Sempronia Akousarion;

Kallistos, son of Hediste, slave ceded by Gaius Sempronius Priscus alias Ammon to his brother, later slave partly belonging to their sister Sempronia Akousarion;

Heron, son of Hediste, slave ceded by Gaius Sempronius Priscus alias Ammon to his brother, later slave partly belonging to their sister Sempronia Akousarion;

Serapias, daughter of Hediste, slave ceded by Gaius Sempronius Priscus alias Ammon to his brother, later slave of their sister Sempronia Akousarion;

Hadrianus, former Emperor;

Kronous, daughter of Maron and Pra[.]ous, granddaughter of Maron, mother of Apronios;

Marcus son of Apronios, hippeus;

Apronios, son of Marcus and of Kronous, grandson of Apronios, idiotes;

Ammonous, daughter of Heron, granddaughter of Aunes, wife of Apronios;

Apronios alias Pasinikos, son of Apronios and Ammonous;

Kroniaina or Kronia, daughter of Apronios and Ammonous;

Sempronia, daughter of Apronios and Ammonous, wife of Marcus Valerius Rufus;

Marcus Valerius Rufus, , hekatontarches speires (centurio cohortis), husband of Sempronia;

Dioskoros, slave of Apronios son of Marcus;

Pantagathos, slave of Apronios son of Marcus;

Dioskorous, slave of Apronios son of Marcus;

Gaius Sempronius Diogenes, son of Sempronia Akousarion, spourios (spurius);

Flavius Titianus, prefect of Egypt;

Kreskes (Crescens), slave of Sempronia Akousarion, Gaius Sempronius (Priscus alias Ammon) and Marcus Sempronius (Vestinus), later of Sempronia Akousarion alone;

Sempronia Akousarion, sister of Gaius Sempronius (Priscus alias Ammon, and of Marcus Sempronius Vestinus), mother of Gaius Sempronius Diogenes;

[- - -]maios (Ptolemaios?), former strategos;

Thermoutharion alias Arsinoe, daughter of Hediste, slave of Sempronia Akousarion;

Onnophris, son of Onnophris, phrontistes of Marcus Sempronius Vestinus

Geographica

amphodon Hermouthiakes (Arsinoiton polis); amphodon Boutaphiou (Arsinoiton polis); (amphodon) Phremei (Arsinoiton polis)

Translation

(Col. I)

Copy.

Gaius Sempronius Priscus alias Ammon to his brother Marcus Sempronius Vestinus, greetings. I acknowledge to have ceded to you from all my possessions which are in the metropolis of the Arsinoite nome a tenth part of a house and a court-yeard, inherited from my father, in the quarter Hermouthiake and four slaves, named Hediste and her off-spring Kallistos and Heron and Serapias in exchange for the three thousand five hundred silver drachmai which I owe you in cash and I shall not prosecute you nor your heirs nor the slaves about anything of the things stated above nor about any matter whatsoever written or unwritten up to the present day in no way. This contract is binding. Year five of Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Epeiph 9.

Copy from the census register incorporating descriptions of the 16th year of the divine Hadrianus, quarter Boutaphion, a 1/6 part of a house of his mother Kronous on the strength of her own memorandum. Apronios, son of Marcus, cavalryman, whose mother is Kronous, the daughter of Maron, past the age, released from the poll-tax in year 15, 61 years of age. Apronios, alias Pasinikos, son of the mother Ammonous, the daughter of Heron, scrutinized in year 15, 21 years of age. Kronous, daughter of Maron, granddaughter of Maron, whose mother is Pra.ous, herself being the mother of Apronios, 78 years of age. Ammonous, daughter of Heron, granddaughter of Aunes, his wife, 60 years of age. Kroniaina, daughter of both, 31 years of age. It had been made clear that his other daughter, Sempronia, has married Marcus Valerius Rufus, a centurion of a cohort.

(Col. II)

From the census register incorporating descriptions of the 2nd year of Hadrianus, quarter Boutaphion, a 1/6 part of a house, near (the quarter) Phremei, of his mother Kronous, daughter of Maron. Apronios, son of Marcus, deceased cavalryman, grandson of Apronios, whose mother is Kronous, a layman, enrolled in the class subject to poll-tax, 48 years of age, with a scar on the middle of his nose. Apronios, alias Pasinikos, whose mother is Ammonous, daughter of Heron, not registered, 8 years of age without distinguishing marks. Dioskoros, slave of Apronios, son of Marcus, 4 years of age without distinguishing marks. Panagathosm another slave of the same, 2 years of age without distinguishing marks. Kronous, daughter of Maron, granddaughter of Maron whose mother is Kronous >read: Pra.ous>, the before mentioned mother of Apronios, 64 years of age. Ammonous, daughter of Heron, granddaughter of Aunes, wife of Apronios, 36 <read: 46> years of age. Sempronia, daughter of both, 20 years. Kroniaina, another daughter, 17 years of age. Dioskoros, a slave of Apronios, son of Marcus, 33 years of age.

Copy from the census register incorporating descriptions of the 16th year of the divine Hadrianus, quarter Hermouthiake, 1st volume, 25th sheet, after other things, a 4/30 part of a house of his mother Sempronia. Gaius Sempronius Diogenes, bastard, whose mother is Sempronia Akousarion, scrutinized in the year 16 by the prefect Flavius Titianus. Crescens, a slave of Sempronia Akousarion, formerly of her and of Gaius Sempronius and of Marcus Sempronius, scrutinized by - - -maios, former strategos, in year 15, . . . years of age. Kallistos, a slave of the same for a 3rd part, off-spring of Hediste, above registered as belonging to the men. Heron, another off-spring of the same, slave of the same for a 3rd part, not registered, 9 years of age. Females: Sempronia Akousarion, mother of Gaius, 57 years of age. Hediste, slave of the same for a 3rd part, formerly of her deceased brother Gaius Sempronius Priscus, who has also be registered above. Serapias, off-spring of the same, slave of the same, likewise registered above. Thermoutharion, alias Arsinoe, another off-spring of the same, likewise registered above. She had made clear that from the before mentioned parts of slaves only Heron has been registered by Onnophris, son of Onnophris, bailiff of Marcus Sempronius Vestinus who was absent and who was not really a - - - of him.

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https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2555

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
ZPE 98	Sijpesteijn PJ	1983	283-291	Sijpesteijn PJ, ZPE 98, 283-291, 1983

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

O.M. Pearl, Atti del XVII Congresso internazionale di papirologia III (Napoli, 1984) p. 1063; R.S. Bagnall, ZPE 105 (1995) p. 253-255.

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

138

Year End

138

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Record

2555

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2555/1 content_copy