P.Mich.inv. 688 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 688
- Processing Number
- 2986
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- Archive of Kronion son of Apion, nomographos of the grapheion of Tebtynis
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 18 x 30 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 8
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- complete
- Palaeographic Description
- 1st hand: same as in P.Mich. V, 349 (probably a professional scribe); 2nd hand: in the rude and ill-formed hand of an unskilled penman
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- Ist century A.D. (ca. 30 A.D.)
- Origin
- Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 1921, Acquired by Kelsey from Nahman in Cairo
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Stotouetis, son of Kollouthos
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Lease of Farm Land
- Content
- Subscriptions to a contract by which Stotouetis, son of Kollouthos, leases twelve arourai of land from Apollonia, daughter of Herakleides. In the space left for the body of the contract is a note which seems to imply that the contract was to be copied from the complete document, which formed a column in the archive roll (tomos synkollesimos)
- Subject Headings
- Ethnicity
- Literacy--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
- Land Ownership
- Lease
- Iranians--Egypt
- Woman (& guardian)
- Persons
- Stotouetis (Stotoetis) son of Kollouthos grandson of Elekis, Perses tes epigones (see also P.Mich. V, 313?);
- Apollonia daughter of Herakleides;
- Marepsemis son of Marepsemis the lesones (see also P.Mich. V, 349, and p. 386 for other possible parallels)
- Geographica
- Perses
- Translation
- (Body of the contract to be copied) from the roll.
- I, Stotouetis, son of Kollouthos, son of Elekis, a Persian of the epigone, have leased from Apollonia, daughter of Herakleides, the aforesaid twelve arourai, or as many as there may be, in one parcel, for the aforesaid four years on all the aforesaid conditions; and I will do everything except for the other things that I owe, as aforesaid. Marepsemis, son of Marepsemis the lesones, wrote for him because he is illiterate.
- (2nd hand) I, Apollonia, daughter of Herakleides, with my father as my guardian, have leased as aforesaid, and I (Herakleides) wrote for her because she is illiterate.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2986
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich V Husselman EM 1944 314 Husselman EM, PMich V, 314, 1944 -- BL III, 115 (l. 4) BL III, 115 (l. 4)
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 1
- Year End
- 99
Technical Details
- Record
- 2986
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2986/688r.tif
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