P.Wisc. inv. 54 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Wisc. inv. 54
- Processing Number
- 5391
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 12.1 x 10.9 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 16 lines
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- A middle-brown papyrus, neatly cut off at the top and right-hand side. At the top there is a margin left of 1.5 to 2 cm., at the left-hand side one of approx. 2 cm.; at the right, where the lines slope slightly upwards, the lines are filled up to the very edge by enlarging the last letter.
- Palaeographic Description
- The text runs parallel to the fibers. The large, clearly legible letters in deep black ink bespeak a well-trained hand.
- Status
- Published
- Library
- Department of Special Collections; Memorial Library; Madison; Wisconsin
Contents
- Date
- June 24, 236 A.D.
- Origin
- Bubastis or Oxyrhynchos
- Provenance
- Unknown
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Aurelius Potamon, son of Pecherous
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Exchange of Donkeys
- Content
- Potamon from Bubastis and Sarapion from Oxyrhynchos exchange their she-asses, while Sarapion has to pay an additional sum of eighty drachmas.
- Persons
- Aurelius Potamon, son of Pecherous, his mother bing Taopis;
- Aurelius Sarapion, son of Heron, his mother being Tachairinon.
- Geographica
- Bubastis;
- Oxyrhynchos.
- Translation
- Aurelius Potamon, son of Pecherous, his mother bing Taopis from the town of Bubastis greets Aurelius Sarapion, son of Heron, his mother being Tachairinon from the town of Oxyrhynchos. I declare having exchanged with my female, mouse-colored donkey still being a foal and having also received from you at the same time a she-ass, white, adult, in foal, hindered by a mark on the right eye and I have received from you the eighty silver drachmas, which my she-ass was estimated to be worth more. It is written double and we have asked each other the question and we have both consented. In the year 2 of Imperator Caesar Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus Pius Felix Augustus and Gaius Julius Verus Maximus, the most holy Caesar Augustus, son of Augustus, 30 Payni.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/wisconsin.apis.5391
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PWisc I Sijpesteijn P.J. 1967 15 Plate VI Sijpesteijn P.J., PWisc I, 15, 1967, Plate VI -- ZPE 91 (1992) pp. 91-94. ZPE 91 (1992) pp. 91-94.
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Hagedorn Dieter, Bemerkungen zu einigen Wisconsin Papyri. ZPE 1 (1967) pp. 143-160; Ziegler Renate, Bemerkungen zu verschiedenen Papyri; ZPE 91 (1992) pp. 91-94.
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- MA
- Year Begin
- 236
- Year End
- 236
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4196 x 4346
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 5391
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-5391/w54r.tif
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"P.Wisc. inv. 54; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-5391/w54r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 09, 2024.