P.Mich.inv. 6912 / Verso

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 6912

Processing Number

3025

Section/Side

Recto

Image Side

Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto; traces of 1 line of writing (perhaps washed out) on Verso

Connections

Archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito

Material

Pap

Size

30.5 x 12 cm

Items

4

Lines

Recto - 23

Mounted

Yes

Negative

No

Conservation Status

Badly damaged

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

12/13 September 544 (or 529) A.D.

Origin

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

Victor, son of Besarion, presbyteros; Apollos, son of Dioskoros; and Senouthes, son of Apollos

Type of Text/Title of Work

Loan of Money

Content

Incomplete draft(?) of a contract by which a woman(?) loans 3 nomismatia to three men of Aphrodite, perhaps acting for the village community as protokometai

Subject Headings

Loan

Priest (Christian)

Persons

[- - -] alias(?) Tsepnas(?) daughter of [- - -] <or: [- - -] daughter of [- - -] and(?) Tsepnas(?), the daughter of [- - -]>

Victor son of Besarion, presbyteros (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

Apollos son of Dioskoros (see J.G. Keenan, Atti del XVII Congresso di Papirologia. III [Napoli, 1984] p.957-963);

Senouthes son of Apollos (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2)

Geographica

Aphrodite, Antaiopolite nome

Translation

To the most discreet [- - -] alias(?) Tsepnas(?), daughter [of - - -], Victor, son of Besarion, presbyter, and Apollos, son of Dioskoros, and Senouthes, son of Apollos, from the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome. We received and owe you - - - three gold nomismatia, i.e. 3 g.nom. as afore said and we are willing to repay these to you whenever you want and to give you as interest for each nomismation three carats a year from the present day which is Thoth 15 of the eighth indiction without any argument or postponement and for your security we have executed this security with our subscriptions as afore said. Written on the 15th Thoth of the eighth indiction.

(2nd H.) (Cross) I, Victor, son of Besarion, presbyter, agree with the security and I shall repay as afore said. (3rd H.) (Cross) I, Senouthes, son of Apollos, the afore-said agree as afore said. (Cross). (4th H.) (Cross) I, the afore-said Apollos, son of Dioskoros, agree as afore said. (5th H.) (Cross) I, Aurelius [- - -].

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3025

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich XIII	Sijpesteijn PJ	1977	669	Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 669, 1977 -- BL VII, 117 (date; l. 2); BL VIII, 217 (bibliography); BL X, 127 (l. 2)	BL VII, 117 (date; l. 2); BL VIII, 217 (bibliography); BL X, 127 (l. 2)

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

J. Gascou, CE 52 (1977) p. 365; J.G. Keenan, ZPE 53 (1983) p. 248-249; L.S.B. MacCoull, CE 70 (1995) p. 345.

Availability/System Requirements

Institution

sc

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

529

Year End

544

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

4512 x 2402

File Size

1 MB

Record

3025

Link to this Item

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