P.Mich.inv. 1711 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 1711

Processing Number

7976

Section/Side

recto

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Material

Pap

Size

13.1 x 11.2 cm

Items

1

Lines

col. 1: 1 line; col. 2: 7 lines

Mounted

No

Negative

No

Conservation Status

The papyrus is broken off at the top, the left- and the right-hand sides. From the left column of the text only the three last letters of a line are preserved. The amount lost at the right part of the second column is uncertain. The space between the columns is c. 3 cm in width. At the bottom the space left blank is c. 4 cm in height. The back is blank.

Palaeographic Description

This portion seems to have had been part of a roll. The first hand, which wrote the preserved line in the first column and lines 2-3 and 4-5 of the second column, was professional and formed some neat ligatures, for instance, in l. 1 and l. 4. This hand wrote entries of about 2 lines (c. 2 cm in height) and left a blank space between them, c. 1.5 cm in height.

The second hand wrote in the blank space left deliberately below each entry. It was cursive and wrote in small-sized letters some standard abbreviations. The scribe marked the text as distinct from the entries, by writing in eisthesis and by encircling it.

The hand is comparable to that of SB XIV 11656, dated in A.D. 186-187, and the Michigan papyrus can be dated to the same period; in particular cf. some letters and ligatures, e.g. in ll. 17-21 of the Yale text. A proposed reading in l. 4 is the year 6 of an emperor (see n. ad loc.); at the end of the second century A.D. this year could be only A.D. 197-198 (Septimius Severus and Caracalla). The inspection could had taken place in the same or the following year

Status

Published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

(second half of the) Iind century A.D.

Origin

Unknown

Provenance

Unknown

Acquisition

November 1924

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Unknown

Type of Text/Title of Work

Register of trees

Content

Both entries begin with “and in the temple of Isis”. Then, the first letters of the following words, which are preserved partially (in l. 2 and in l. 5), seem to be epithets of Isis. The genitive of the noun “of the village” in ll. 3 and 6 is another common detail in both entries. Therefore, at the end of l. 5 an expression of place (cf. l. 3 “to the east”) is expected. At the end of the entries (ll. 3 and 6) the tree(s) planted in these temples are mentioned (cf. l. 6 mulberry-tree(s)).

There is a reference to a register or survey of trees and the papyrus-sheet of a tomos synkollesimos, as the resolved abbreviation (sheet )points out. The ink in the text that follows (especially in l. 4) is damaged.

Registers of tress are mentioned in P.Vind.Pher. 161 (Pheretnouis; A.D. 196-197) and P.Congr. XV 15, 41 (Karanis; A.D. 80). These registers were drawn up by the village scribes (for their practice see P.Congr. XV 15, introd., p. 76). Also, three documents (SB XIV 11654, 11655 and 11656), published by G.M. Parássoglou, “On Idios Logos and Fallen Trees”, APF 24/25 (1976), pp. 91-99, preserve detailed records of measurements of fallen trees; in particular, the latter one is a set of entries on trees and branches fallen on temple grounds. These trees were considered as without a private owner and were a concern of idios logos (see Parássoglou, loc. cit., p. 93). It is true the entries of the Michigan papyrus record trees in temple groves (ll. 2 and 5) but these entries are a kind of shortened references or of abstracts of detailed descriptions and totally different that the ones of the papyri mentioned above. Also, the surviving text does not provide further information on whether it is about trees fallen upon the ground or just mulberry- and other trees still cultivated in the temples. It is plausible that the papyrus might have served as the draft during the schedule or itinerary for the inspection of some trees in the temple. In that case the responsible officials might have checked on spot the present copy up on the complete register or survey of trees (probably on a _____ _____ of one of the previous years) and have written down the reference to the sheet of the tomos synkollesimos, if something had changed or not since the last inspection. Later all the new information should had to be copied and reported officially in a new register.

Persons

I

Translation

(2nd hand) [Register of plants, sheet … ]. (1st hand) And in the temple of Isis E[ … ] to the east of the village [ … ]. (2nd hand) Register of plants, sheet … [. (1st hand) And in the temple of Isis N[ … from …]of the village mulberry-tree(s) [ … ] (2nd hand) Register of plants, sheet … [.

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.7976

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
Papyrologische Beiträge zu Ehren von Bärbel Kramer	Litinas N	2008	75-78	Taf. III	Litinas N, Papyrologische Beiträge zu Ehren von Bärbel Kramer, 75-78, 2008, Taf. III

Cataloging

Cataloger

NL

Year Begin

150

Year End

199

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

4795 x 3652

File Size

2 MB

Record

7976

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-7976/1711r.tif content_copy

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Manifest

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