P.Mich.inv. 6903 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number
P.Mich.inv. 6903
Processing Number
3015
Section/Side
Recto
Image Side
Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side
Recto (written across the fibres); Verso is blank
Connections
+ P.Mich.inv. 6919; 6921 - Archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito.
Material
Pap
Size
90 x 24.5 cm (as published)
Items
many fragments
Lines
51 as published
Mounted
Yes
Negative
Yes
Conservation Status
Broken off on the left side and at the top; broken also along nearly every horizontal fold. P.Mich.inv. 6919 and 6921 group a few fragments belonging to the upper part of this roll, but these cannot be connected into a continuous text.
Palaeographic Description
Recto written across the fibres
Status
published
Library
Ann Arbor

Contents

Date
VIth century A.D.
Origin
probably Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome, province of the Lower Thebais, Thebais, Egypt
Provenance
Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome, province of the Lower Thebais, Thebais, Egypt
Acquisition
purchased in 1943 through Th. Whittemore
Language
Greek
Genre
Documentary
Author
Aurelia Maria, daughter of Papnytis
Type of Text/Title of Work
Sale of Part of a House
Content
Sale of parts of a house, including two rooms, by Aurelia Maria, daughter of Papnytis, acting apparently without any male guardian, to several persons, including probably Onnophrios and Stratekeia
Persons
Christophoros son of Apollos;
[- - -] Apollos alias Pastouos(?) [- - -];
Papeous [- - -] (= the following?);
[- - -], father of Onnophris and Strategia (and others?)? (= the preceding?)
Onnophrios (Onnophris);
Stratekeia (Strategia);
Patelaonos(?) (former owner);
Aurelia Maria daughter of Papnytis;
Aurelius Kallinikos son of Petros;
[- - -] son of Ioannes (John), presbyteros;
[- - -], presbyteros;
Aurelius [- - -];
Enoch son of Menas, anagnostes;
Theodosios, tabellion
Translation
(at least 25 incomplete lines)
[- - -] and inhabit and control and manage them [and lease and sublease them] and convey them to your [own] heirs and assigns and [successors], and use and enjoy them [as you wish] with the rights of ownership and without hindrance [or let]. And you shall be free from opposition present or future from any of those who are [heirs] or co-heirs [after me], or of [my relations by birth or my connections]; and I shall defend you at my own [expense and costs] from whoever shall [in future] take proceedings against you [concerning this] and I shall confirm your possession with every confirmation at all times and [on every occasion], compulsory, against everyone who shall attack or take proceedings against you; and if I am negligent in the confirmation, I shall pay [three times] the price together with costs [and damages] in order that (this deed of sale) may be valid and inviolable wherever it is produced; which deed , written in one copy, I have of my own free will and consent [executed] at the Public Registry without any violence, deceit or compulsion or any fraud, without any [intimidation or guile], and [for] your security I have given [you] this copy completed according to the laws [with the subscription] of him who subscribes for me, followed in order by those of the customary witnesses who have at my [summons] born witness to it; and for all that is herein written and for the guarantee of confirmation of this sale and for its freedom of encumbrances all [my possessions] present and future, movable, [immovable] and live-stock, generally and severally, in every class and [kind] are submitted to you as a [pledge] and with the force of a mortgage as though by decree of court. And being asked the formal question [concerning all that is herein written I agreed that the things were so, and so to give, [do] and keep.
(2nd hand) (Cross) I, [the afore-said], Aurelia Maria, daughter of Papnytis, [have executed] this deed of sale, and have received the afore-said full [price] in two nomismatia, and shall confirm your possession with every confirmation [against everyone], always, and I agree with all that is herein written; and I have sworn [the divine] oath as aforementioned. (Cross) I, Aurelius Kallinikos, son of Petros, have written it at her request [- - -].
(3rd hand) [- - -], son of Ioannes, D.V. presbyter, I bear witness to this deed of sale, having heard declarations from the [person executing it and I bear witness] also to the payment of the two gold nomismata of the price. (Cross)
(4th hand) [- - -], D.V. presbyter, I bear witness to this deed of sale, having heard declarations from the person executing it and I bear witness [also to the payment] of the two gold nomismata of the price. (Cross)
(5th hand) I, Aurelius . . ., [son of - - -], bear witness to this deed of sale, having heard declarations from the person executing it and I bear witness [also to the payment] of the two gold nomismata of the price.
(6th hand) I, Aurelius [- - -, bear witness] to this deed of sale, having heard declarations from the person executing it and I bear witness [also to the payment] of the two gold nomismata of the price. (Cross)
(7th hand) (Cross). I, Eunoch, son of Menas, reader, [bear witness to this] deed of sale, having heard declarations from the person executing it and I bear witness also to the payment of the two [gold] nomismata of the price. (Cross)
(8th hand) Written by me Theodosios, D.V. tabellio. (3 crosses). (Tachygraphy)

Information on Publications

Publications
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections
PMich XIII Sijpesteijn PJ 1977 663 Pl. XIV-XV Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 663, 1977, Pl. XIV-XV -- Several new fragments from the upper part of the roll were found under inv. 6919 and 6921; they do not permit to restitute a connected text, but show that Onnophris and Strategia were probably (some of?) the buyers, and that they had the same father, whose name might be Papeous. (PH); BL XI, 133 (identification of persons); Several new fragments from the upper part of the roll were found under inv. 6919 and 6921; they do not permit to restitute a connected text, but show that Onnophris and Strategia were probably (some of?) the buyers, and that they had the same father, whose name might be Papeous. (PH); BL XI, 133 (identification of persons);

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography
Jean Gascou, Fiscalite et societe en Egypte byzantine, Achcbyz 1008, p. 124

Availability/System Requirements

Institution
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Cataloging

Cataloger
PH
Year Begin
500
Year End
599

Technical Details

Image Size
2317 x 3009
File Size
928 KB
Record
3015
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