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  Inventory Number

  P.Mich.inv. 6900

  Processing Number

  3012

  Section/Side

  Recto

  Background and Physical Properties

  Publ./Side

  Recto; Verso is blank

  Connections

  See also P.Mich. XIII, 661 (inv. 6901), probably the following sheet of the same document. - Archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito.

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  73 x 30 cm

  Items

  1 (made of several fragments)

  Lines

  19

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  Yes

  Conservation Status

  quite damaged, with many holes

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  first half of the VIth century A.D.

  Origin

  Antinoe (Antinoou polis)(?), 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

  Latin (protocols introducing each speaker)

  Greek (all speeches)

  Genre

  Documentary

  Author

  Unknown scribe

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Report of Legal Proceedings

  Content

  Proceedings of a trial presided by a military officer (comes militum): a person of high status, Flavius Sarapammon, is accused of malversations in requisiting money; among those who worked with him, a soldier, Flavius Menas, is suspected of the murders of the priest Victor and of Herakleios. The prosecuting parties are, among others(?), Victor's brother and Herakleios's wife, Maria.

  Subject Headings

  Administration

  Army

  Funerary practices

  Justice

  Murder

  Priest (Christian)

  Prison

  Religion (Christian)

  Tax Collection

  Travel

  Violence

  Woman

  Persons

  Flavius Sarapammon (praeses of the Lower Thebais?);

  Victor, notarius and topoteretes;

  (unnamed) boethos;

  (unnamed) meizoteros;

  (unnamed) comes militum (dux of the Thebais?);

  Flavius Menas, miles = stratiotes;

  Zacharias, dioiketes;

  Victor, presbyteros, brother of the following (deceased);

  Flavius <- - ->, brother of the presbyteros Victor;

  Theodoros;

  Maria, widow of Herakleios;

  (unnamed) kephalaiotai of Aphrodite;

  Herakleios, deceased husband of Maria;

  Letoios (scholastikos?);

  Flavius Psoios;

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

  (unnamed) Emperor;

  Flavius Kollouthos;

  Flavius Christophoros;

  (unnamed) pragmateutai;

  (unnamed) ekdikos of Antaiou polis;

  Victor, former ekdikos (of Antaiou polis)

  Geographica

  Aphrodite (Aphrodito); Antaiou (polis); Konstantinou polis (Konstantinopolis = Constantinople)

  Translation

  (P.Mich. inv. 6900)

  [- - -].

  [The soldier Flavius Menas said: "- - -] from the most magnificent Sarapammon the same gold and Victor, the notary and toporetes. For I did not receive the afore-mentioned gold but the assistant did and he gave it to his headman and also to Victor, the toporetes being together one and a half pounds of gold. I do not know what else his headman received. The same most illustrious Sarapammon received the gold from his headman".

  The illustrious comes militum said: "What has the most magnificent Sarapammon to say regarding this after he has heard the voice of Menas saying all that has been saidot he persons before the court that gold has been asked by Zacharias and has been paid to him?"

  The illustrious afore-mentioned Flavius Sarapammon said: "I did discover that some persons from the village of Aphrodite made a conspiracy and wanted to divide the village in two parties(?) so that they again could attend minutely to murders and for that reason the conspirators have been asked for one pound of gold for the praesidial treasury."

  The illustrious comes militum said: "The administration will bring pressure to bear upon the most magnificent Sarapammon for the production of Zacharias in court. What has Menas to say about the accusations ?"

  The soldier Flavius Menas said: "I did not murder anyone and I also prove it. What if Menas proves(?) it? The same presbyter feeling nauseous stayed in the church and I in Antaiou (polis) and an abscess came out of the throat of the presbyter and he died thereof. About Herakleios I was not there and I do not know (about him)."

  The illustrious comes militum said: "If the prosecuting party wants to attack with their accusations they must - - - the law for prosecution".

  Flavius <- - -> defending Theodoros said: "In the last days of the passed month Mesore of the past seventh indiction the devoted Menas forced my brother Victor who also is a presbyter outside and murdered him having thrown a piece of wood of a machiehis left arm and having (placed) many blows on his stomach from the fifth hour till the evening of the same day and I reserve against him the law me suiting against murderers. And if I shall not prove that he murdered my brother I shall die instead of him. And he did not ask for the blows he received or it must be by the fact that he was ten or eleven days alone".

  The afore-mentioned Maria defending Theodoros said: "The chiefs (of the police) of my village Aphrodite together with others who are in its service after having arrested my husband Herakleios put him in the watch-house of my village Aphrodite and after having taken wine to the same watch-house they drunk with him and when the evening had come they beat my same husband Herakleios and killed him with their swords and thereafter they gave his remains to the fire and they did this to him on the eighth of the month Phaophi of the passed sixth indiction at the setting of the sun. Being asked why they murdered my husband they said: 'The most illustrious Sarapammon and Menas wrote us to kill him', and I reserve against them the law me suiting regarding the death of my wretched husband. When Herakleios, my wretched husband, had been killed and his remains had been given to the fire so that they may be burned they poured again water on the same remains and they threw his bones in a basket and burried them I do not know where. I ask, therefore, that they are given to me so that I can burry them. For concerning just this matter I approached already the most illustrious Sarapammon and it was agreed to arrange that they would be given to me but they were not given".

  (P.Mich. inv. 6901 + P.Palau Ribes inv. 70).

  [- - -] Herakleios having been taken off, and I went to approach . . . and having recognized one of my husband's murderers

  [- - -] of my wretched husand and he arrested this man and I do not know for what reason released him.

  [The illustrious comes militum said]: "Let the most magnificent [Sarapammon] defend himself concerning this: through the foresight of the administration he will . . . and Menas to those who have brought(?) to him the

  [- - -." The illustrious afore-mentioned Sarapammon said:] the most learned Letoios asked me for four pounds of gold on account of the people of Aphrodite because at a later(?) moment they attacked him

  [- - -] these, and as the people of Aphrodite have [[always]] lived a disorderly life . . . [- - -] that they have [. . .] time

  [- - -] and the man of whom Herakleios's wife said that he murdered her husband I handed over to

  [- - -] in his presence(?) he has been released but the people of the village (killed?) Herakleios as a voluntarily denouncer

  [- - -] and because of that the people of the village were asked three pounds of gold for the government in the

  [- - -] The illustrious comes militum said: "For what reason do you say that the same man promised gold to Letoios?"

  [- - -] said: "[. . .] as the most learned Letoios told me all agreed with him that I did something fraudulent. To him

  [- - -] I asked for." The illustrious comes militum said: "What have the parties present to say to this?" Flavius Psoios - - - Flavius Apollos from the village of Aphrodite, the afore-mentioned, defending Theodoros said: "On the pretext of the four and half (pounds of gold)

  [- - -] pounds of gold and thereafter in front of the present person the same most illustrious Sarapammon asked from us through the intermediary of the devoted Menas

  [- - -] and to go to Constantinople and to approach our most pious Lord." Flavius Kollouthos and Flavius Christophoros, the afore-mentioned,

  [- - -] the administration which assists your Excellency brought the devoted Menas before the court and

  [- - -] The illustrious comes militum said: "Menas having heard what has been taught by the persons before the court must defend himself". The soldier Menas said:

  "[- - -] the most illustrious Sarapammon and he sent me with the dioiketes Zacharias and because Zacharias said to me

  [- - - as also] the persons before the court [know], Zacharias took it and gave it to the most illustrious Sarapammon, as also the soldier Menas knows and when [- - -] came

  [- - -] the people of the village (said?) willingly to me: "Kollouthos who is here said: 'Where are the pragmateutai so that they give me

  [- - -] the corn that has been sealed for the coemptio and I shall do it for the most illustrious Sarapammon if ever I did anything

  [- - -] and the defensor of Antaiou (polis) and Victor, the ex-defensor, and therefore the headman collected a tax from them."

  Information on Publications

  Publications

  Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
  PMich XIII	Sijpesteijn PJ	1977	660	Pl. IX	Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 660, 1977, Pl. IX -- BL VII, 116 (l. 5; 10); BL VIII, 217 (l. 10); BL IX 163 (l. 5; bibliography); BL X, 126 (l. 5; 6; 9; 10); BL XI, 133 (bibliography; date).	BL VII, 116 (l. 5; 10); BL VIII, 217 (l. 10); BL IX 163 (l. 5; bibliography); BL X, 126 (l. 5; 6; 9; 10); BL XI, 133 (bibliography; date).
  Ch.L.A. XLVII	Dorandi T	1997	1437[B]	plates	Dorandi T, Ch.L.A. XLVII, 1437[B], 1997, plates -- Several very small fragments were added to P.Mich. XIII, 660-661: l. 4: read Fl(avius) Sarapammon, instead of [[s.s.]] S[ara]pammon; - l. 8: read a[pe]tha[n]en, instead of a[pethnesk]en; l. 9: read synexelthein instead of synepelthein (PH)	Several very small fragments were added to P.Mich. XIII, 660-661: l. 4: read Fl(avius) Sarapammon, instead of [[s.s.]] S[ara]pammon; - l. 8: read a[pe]tha[n]en, instead of a[pethnesk]en; l. 9: read synexelthein instead of synepelthein (PH)

  Information on Publications--Bibliography

  Bibliography

  J. Gascou, CE 52 (1977) p. 362-363; R.S. Bagnall-K.A. Worp, BASP 17 (1980) p. 9; L.S.B. MacCoull, JJP 20 (1990) p. 103-107 [= Coptic Perspectives on Late Antiquity (Aldershot, 1993) art. XVIII]; J.G. Keenan, BASP 32 (1995) p. 57-63; T. Gagos, ZPE 93 (1992) 222; Jean Gascou, Fiscalite et societe en Egypte byzantine, Achcbyz 1008, p. 433

  Information on Publications--Notes

  Notes

  According to the inventory of the collection, P.Mich. inv. 6901 was found rolled with P.Mich. inv. 6900, of which it offers a continuation, though these two large sheets do not seem to have been joined. At least another sheet preceded P.Mich. inv. 6900.

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  Inventory Number

  P.Mich.inv. 6899

  Processing Number

  3009

  Section/Side

  Recto

  Background and Physical Properties

  Publ./Side

  Recto (written across the fibres); Verso is blank

  Connections

  + P.Vat.Aphrod. 17. - Archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito.

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  Main piece: 565 x 29.5 cm; frg. 1; 7 x 5 cm; frg. 2: 14.1 x 5.5 cm; frg. 3: 11.5 x 4.8 cm; P.Vat.Aphrod. 17: 8.6 x 7.3 cm

  Items

  1 main piece (made of 29 sheets, some of which broken in several fragments; now divided in five mountings); 3 loose fragments

  Lines

  Frg. 1: 3;

  frg. 2 + 3: 4;

  P.Vat.Aphrod. 17: 5;

  main piece: 344 (see note)

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  Yes

  Conservation Status

  broken off at the top, which was at the outside when the papyrus was rolled

  Palaeographic Description

  Recto written across the fibres (transversa charta); 28 kollemata are to be found on the main piece; the scribe, Aurelius Abraam, son of Victor, is highly trained. (Sijpesteijn) - 4th hand: slow-writer

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  ca. 527-538 A.D.

  Origin

  Antinoe (Antinoou polis), 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; Aurelius Senouthes, son of Apollos; Aurelius Psaios, son of Mousaios

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Settlement

  Content

  Settlement made out of court by, on the one hand, Apollos (deceased), Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of a certain Ioannes (John), represented by the presbyter Victor, son of Besarion, and by Senouthes, son of Apollos, and.on the other hand, Psaios, son of Mousaios, and his wife Talous, daughter of Herakleios. Several issues were at stake between them: the price of several holdings bought by Ioannes to Psaios and his wife, and its payment; taxes collected by Apollos on Psaios, allegedly wrongfully; and a house pledged by Psaios for the sake of the defending party in connection with a court fee.

  Subject Headings

  Arbitration

  Debt

  House Ownership

  Literacy--Egypt--Aphrodito (Extinct city)

  Imperial Oath

  Inheritance

  Land Ownership

  Pakerk¯e (Extinct city)

  Poverty

  Price

  Priest (Christian)

  Religion (Christian)

  Sale

  Security

  Settlement

  Tax Collection

  Violence

  Woman

  Persons

  Ioannes (John) (deceased);

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

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

  Aurelius Psaios son of Mousaios, husband of Talous (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

  Apollos son of Ioannes (deceased);

  Paulos son of Ioannes;

  Maria daughter of Ioannes;

  Aurelia Talous daughter of Herakleios, wife of Psaios;

  Theodosios, from Pakerke;

  Tausiris (see Geographica);

  Hermaouos (Hermauos) son of Psyros, former presbyteros (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  (unnamed) heirs of Maria daughter of Psaios (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  apa Besarion son of Ioannes, presbyteros (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  (unnamed) heirs of Rachel daughter of Hermaouos;

  Iustinianus, Emperor;

  Aurelius Abraam (Abraham) son of Biktor, former boethos (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

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

  Flavius Victor son of Anouthes;

  Aurelius [- - -], protokometes;

  Aurelius Anouphis son of Iakybios (Iakob; Jacob), entoleus (see Travaux et Mémoires 10 [1987] p. 140);

  Flavius Victor son of Ioannes, exkeptor tes doukikes taxeos (exceptor duciani officii) (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2)

  Geographica

  Pakerke; Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome; ktema kaloumenon Tausireos; Antinoou (polis)

  Translation

  [- - -] at the evaluation worth a quantity of more than thirty-six gold nomismata and that even the thirty-six goldpieces which really had been included as the price in the deed of sale had not been fully paid to him at that time and he produced a security written, as he pretended, by his own hand concluded between him and Ioannes of discreet memory at - - - of eighteen nomismata by the balance of the same village for the remainder of the price of the holdings sold to him, because the produced security contained it thus. Opposing this the most discreet Victor and Senouthes, undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory (said) that, on the one hand, they absolutely rejected as not genuine the produced security for the eighteen nomismata from Psaios saying that it was in no regard true and they asked for that agreement. They also proved that the deed of sale of the holding in the first place had been executed without force and constraint and that the gold of the price, thirty-six nomismata, had been paid in full to him, and especially they produced the deed of sale concluded with the most discreet Ioannes concerning the afore-mentioned holding containing also the witnesses who at that time appended their signatures and bore witness to the payment of the thirty-six nomismata. They also produced another sale of a right to feed off concluded at some other, later time by Psaios with the afore-mentioned Ioannes of discreet memory containing a notice of the before-concluded deed of sale concerning the afore-mentioned holding and validating it and because of this confidently affirming and maintaining that if he had executed before the deed of sale concerning the holding by force and compulsion he would not have afterwards validated it by the later executed deed of sale concerning the right to feed off. Counterpleading against this the people of the prosecuting party acknowledged that the later concluded deed of sale concerning the right tofeeed off had been executed without any force but they said that they did not know how a notice had crept up in it of the earlier sale concerning the holding but that more likely it had by fraud or deceit of the notary at that time be included and they simply asked from the people of the defending party to prove the payment of the thirty-six nomismata. They said that they could not produce other witnesses or other proofs of the payment of the thirty-six nomismata and that proofs concerning that part of the deal could not be legally demanded from them as already a period of twenty years, more or less, had passed since the holding had been sold and the deed of sale concerning it had been drawn up. Pleading against this the people of the prosecuting party proved that they had often used loud complaints in the Holy Church against Ioannes of discreet memory and that they also often had approached the praeses of the province regarding this reason but that after there had been much cajolery by the opponents the discussion about that inquiry had been closed. And after other pleadings had been brought forward by the people of the defending party concerning the execution of the deed of sale concerning the holding and after many things had been said and pleaded in these matters by the people of both parties the people of both parties at last resolved and agreed in accordance with an arbitration and a friendly arrangement and judgment and examination by a common arbiter that the most discreet Victor and Senouthes undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory would swear a bodily oath that they knew for certain that the thirty-six goldpieces had been paid as the price of the afore-mentioned holding to Psaios and his wife Talous at the time of the sale and that in this way fourteen further nomismata each less four carats by the public standard have been paid to Psaios in addition as the price for the sold holding. For after having accurately investigated the rents of the afore-mentioned holding and all the public taxes that rest on it and after an accurate calculation of the remaining true revenues annually from the same holding after subtraction of the pious taxes it was resolved that accurately the holding was worth fifty nomismata and these gold ones. After these matters having been thus resolved and agreed upon by the people of both parties in accordance with the judgment and the arbitration of the common arbiter they jointly chose the most discreet Victor, presbyter, and Senouthes have sworn the bodily oath to Psaios and Talous that they very accurately knew that Ioannes of discreet memory paid them then, at the time of the sale the thirty-six goldpieces incapable of diminution. And now they have paid them the further fourteen goldpieces each less four carats by the public standard.

  Psaios also brought forward against Victor and Senouthes undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory that he sold them two other holdings, of however many arourai they may have been, for a low price at the time of difficulties not by force or by constraint of any sort but because of shortage of food and concerning these matters it has been decided by the common arbiter to keep quiet and not to make an inquiry against them regarding these matters because the alienation of these holdings had been made not by constraint but of his own free will.

  He also brought forward against them that he had been asked for a certain amount of corn and gold by Apollos allegedly for taxes and that although he did not owe anything and as a confirmation for the things having been said by him he produced a security concerning it. Pleading against these Victor and Senouthes said that they did not know anything accurately regarding this part as Apollos of blessed memory had left this earthly life nineteen years ago, more or less, and they have sworn an oath to him that they did not know anything concerning this inquiry.

  Psaios also brought forward against them that because of a court fee he had executed a security for them on a house that belongs to him for the security and freedom of encumbrances of the fourth part of the holding of Theodosios from Pakerke located in the plain of the village of Aphrodite of the same Antaiopolite nome and the persons of both parties resolved and agreed that the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory would have no claim against Psaios concerning the afore-mentioned house.

  And for the removal of every ambiguity between the parties it has been resolved to tear up the receipt for the eighteen nomismata brought by Psaios and also the security concerning the grain and the gold that had been asked forsooth on account of taxes and if anything else remained perhaps out of forgetfulness with him that had not been newly brought forward it has been resolved that that also will have absolutely no value but will be invalid and without authority because that has been decided between both parties so as to remove every inquiry and ambiguity.

  These things having been thus resolved and being acquiesced in by the people of both parties out of necessity they executed this general and comprehensive settlement being destructive to every hindrance and to every seed of a law-suit in accordance with which, on the one hand, Psaios and Talous acknowledge that they have received the remaining fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price of the holding called Tausiris in accordance with what has been resolved between them, the boundaries of the same holding are as follows: in the South the fields of the heirs of Hermaouos, son of Psyros, former presbyter, in the North the fields of the heirs of Maria, daughter of Psaios, in the East the fields of Apa Besarion, son of Ioannes, presbyter, in the West the fields of the heirs of Rachel, daughter of Hermaouos, or whatever the boundaries may be, everywhere and on all sides, and they acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory concerning the afore-mentioned holdings which have been sold to them at different times nor concerning a part thereof nor concerning the crops of the whole fore-going time nor concerning any corporeal or incorporeal right belonging to them, but they also acknowledge that the at different times concluded deeds of sale concerning them are valid and inviolable wherever they are produced. On the other hand, Psaios acknowledges that he will remove at his own risk and that of his property in accordance with the force of the concerning them concluded deeds of sale everyone who will take proceedings against the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory concerning the holdings bought from him or concerning a part thereof. And if Theodosios of Pakerke takes at any time or in any way proceedings against a part of the same holdings making a request or his heirs or someones of his family it has been resolved that the same heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes now undertaking business for them will produce the between them and the afore-mentioned Theodosios concluded agreement which embodies a settlement and which lies with them and of which agreement they newly have handed a copy with their subscriptions and that Psaios thus having taken this settlement and using it and whatever other lawful rights he wants removes the afore-mentioned Theodosios taking proceedings against the same things or against a part thereof or his heirs and thus after the conflicts returns again the warranted copy of the same agreement to the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory. If at any time or in any way they defer to produce this afore-mentioned settlement, the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes who now undertake business for them, when an inquiry is being made by Theodosios, the afore-mentioned, concerning a part of the same holdings it has been resolved that not Psaios will remove the afore-mentioned Theodosios nor his heirs who may oppose for him concerning a part of the same holdings but that the risk of the removal and the clearance of Theodosios will lay with the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or the persons who undertake business for them because they refused to produce the settlement as it has been thus resolved by the parties. And they allow them to partake in them, to enjoy them, to harvest the crops from them, to manage them in whatever proprietary way they may please for all continually succeeding time and they acknowledge that they have annihilated every claim regarding the afore-mentioned holdings or part thereof, suiting them or possibly suiting them. They also acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against them neither concerning the taxes because they have been asked in surplus nor concerning any case whatsoever generally but they also acknowledge that if any other papyrus or receipt concerning this law-case has been left with them that it will be invalid and without force wherever it will be produced because it has been thus resolved between the parties so as to remove and to cut out every inquiry concerning it.

  Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against Psaios concerning the house that belongs to him and that they will not oppose him concerning it at no time or in no way whatsoever but that they will also hand over when they find it the written security which has lately been concluded between him and them or that it, when it stays with them, will be idle and invalid wherever it will be produced. They further acknowledge that they recognize ceaselessly for all the succeeding time all the public taxes which are attached to the holdings that at different times have been sold to Ioannes of discreet memory in accordance with the measurement that has been taken or with any other measurement that is bound to be while the risk of the diminution or of the increase of the public taxes that is bound to be will regard them at their own risk and that of their property and they also acknowledge that Psaios and his wife Talous will be not liable to penalty and will be undisturbed concerning all public taxes regarding the same holdings from the moment they or Ioannes of discreet memory took the same holdings over until now and for all the succeeding time.

  And they acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against them concerning whatsoever other matter generally nor in regard to expenses nor to penalties because this general settlement has been concluded between them for every removal and complete cutting out of the law-suit concerning them and in accordance with this settlement the people of each party acknowledge all to all othrs and each separately that they have no longer any claim against each other concerning whatsoever matter, small or big, written or unwritten, thought of or not thought of, remembered or not remembered, said or unsaid, judged or un judged and that they for the future do not prosecute nor shall prosecute each other either in a lawcourt in the country nor in a lawcourt abroad or outside the lawcourts not they by themselves nor by a representative nor by a man of straw whosoever not they themselves nor their heirs nor their assigns nor their successors not they each other nor the heirs nor the assigns nor the successors of each other because they have settled in all points according to the afore-said written decision and each party has in regard to all these points sworn by the holy and consubstantial Trinity and by the victory and the safety of the gloriously triumphant Lord of the universe Flavius Justinianus the eternal Augustus Imperator that they shall abide by all that has been afore mentioned and that they in no way shall transgress them. And if anyone of them shall dare to transgress it or to do something contrary to this settlement the party which does not abide to it acknowledges to give to the party which abides to it as a fine for the reason of only the transgression a hundred gold nomismata of good weight which may be demanded with full power of action and that thereafter he shall be answerable for the risk of perjury and that nevertheless this settlement shall stay unbroken and unshaken for all the succeeding time, which settlement they have executed for each other for their safety being valid and effective wherever it is produced and having asked each other the formal question and having been asked by each other the formal question they agreed to all that has been written above and to every point that they were so, and so to give, do, keep, and abide by. And for all that is written above and for the claim to the afore-mentioned penalty, if it suits to claim it, they have submitted to each other all their possessions, present and future, movable, immovable and life-stock as a pledge and with the force of a mortgage. (Cross)

  (2nd hand) (Cross) I, Victor, son of Besarion, presbyter, undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement in accordance with all the pledges and agreements it contains with which I agree and of which I approve and I have given in addition to the afore-mentioned Psaios and his wife Talous the fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price of the afore-mentioned holding called Tausiris and I have sworn the divine oath for all that has been written above and for the afore-mentioned fine and I comply with all things as they have been written above and having subscribed I delivered it.

  (3rd hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Senouthes, son of Apollos, undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement in accordance with all the pledges and agreements which it contains with which I agree and of which I approve and I have given in addition to the afore-mentioned Psaios and his wife Talous the fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price for the afore-mentioned holding called Tausiris and I have sworn the divine oath for all that has been written above and for the afore-mentioned fine and I comply with all things as they have been written above and having subscribed I delivered it.

  (4th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Psaios, son of Mousaios, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement as afore said. (Cross)

  (5th hand) I, Aurelia Talous, daughter of Herakleios, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement as afore said. I, Aurelius Abraam, son of Victor, ex-assistant from the same village of Aphrodite have written it at her request because she cannot write.

  (6th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Apollos, son of Dioskoros, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (7th hand) (Cross) . . .

  (8th hand) I, Flavius Victor, son of Anouthos, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (9th hand) I, Aurelius [- - -], protokometes, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (10th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Anouphis, son of Iakobios, from Antinoou (polis), legal representative, bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (11th hand) (Cross) I, Flavius Victor, son of Ioannes, scribe of the ducal staff bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (12th hand) (Cross) Written by me Dios, notary. (3 crosses) (Tachygraphy).

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  Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
  PMich XIII	Sijpesteijn PJ	1977	659	Pl. I-VIII	Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 659, 1977, Pl. I-VIII -- BL VII, 116 (l. 78 [former l. 45]; 349 [former l. 316]); BL IX, 163 (former l. 347 [l. 314]). - See also note; BL XI, 133 (bibliography);	BL VII, 116 (l. 78 [former l. 45]; 349 [former l. 316]); BL IX, 163 (former l. 347 [l. 314]). - See also note; BL XI, 133 (bibliography);

  Information on Publications--Bibliography

  Bibliography

  J. Gascou, CE 52 (1977) p. 361-362; J. Gascou-L.S.B. MacCoull, Travaux et Mémoires 10 (1987) p. 140; Jean Gascou, Fiscalite et societe en Egypte byzantine, Achcbyz 1008, pp. 282, 284, 306, 438

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  Notes

  Of the nine fragments published separately in the ed.pr., 6 have been joined, adding 26 lines at the beginning of the main piece; the place of a small fragment bearing the fragmentary line 1 of the ed.pr. proved to be wrong. The position of the new fragments 1-3, as well as that of P.Vat.Aphrod. 17, is still uncertain, but they certainly belong to the top of the roll. To sum up:

  l. 1-5 = P.Vat.Aphrod. 17;

  l. 6-8 = frg. 1 (formerly frg. 6 [l. 356-357]);

  l. 9-12 = frg. 2 + 3 (formerly frg. 4 [l. 349-352] and 8 [l. 360] + 5 [353-355]);

  l. 13-21 = former frg. 1 [l. 320-328] + 9 [l. 361-363] [with l. 328 = l. 1 = l. 339; and l. 321-323 = l. 361-363];

  l. 21-30 = former frg. 3 [l. 339-348] + 7 [l. 359] [with l. 328 = l. 1 = l. 339; l. 344 = l. 359; and l. 348 = l. 329];

  l. 30-39 = former frg. 2 [l. 329-338] [with l. 329 = l. 348; and l. 338 = l. 2];

  l. 39-356 = former l. 2-319. (PH)

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  Inventory Number

  P.Mich.inv. 6899

  Processing Number

  3009

  Section/Side

  Recto

  Background and Physical Properties

  Publ./Side

  Recto (written across the fibres); Verso is blank

  Connections

  + P.Vat.Aphrod. 17. - Archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito.

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  Main piece: 565 x 29.5 cm; frg. 1; 7 x 5 cm; frg. 2: 14.1 x 5.5 cm; frg. 3: 11.5 x 4.8 cm; P.Vat.Aphrod. 17: 8.6 x 7.3 cm

  Items

  1 main piece (made of 29 sheets, some of which broken in several fragments; now divided in five mountings); 3 loose fragments

  Lines

  Frg. 1: 3;

  frg. 2 + 3: 4;

  P.Vat.Aphrod. 17: 5;

  main piece: 344 (see note)

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  Yes

  Conservation Status

  broken off at the top, which was at the outside when the papyrus was rolled

  Palaeographic Description

  Recto written across the fibres (transversa charta); 28 kollemata are to be found on the main piece; the scribe, Aurelius Abraam, son of Victor, is highly trained. (Sijpesteijn) - 4th hand: slow-writer

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  ca. 527-538 A.D.

  Origin

  Antinoe (Antinoou polis), 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; Aurelius Senouthes, son of Apollos; Aurelius Psaios, son of Mousaios

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Settlement

  Content

  Settlement made out of court by, on the one hand, Apollos (deceased), Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of a certain Ioannes (John), represented by the presbyter Victor, son of Besarion, and by Senouthes, son of Apollos, and.on the other hand, Psaios, son of Mousaios, and his wife Talous, daughter of Herakleios. Several issues were at stake between them: the price of several holdings bought by Ioannes to Psaios and his wife, and its payment; taxes collected by Apollos on Psaios, allegedly wrongfully; and a house pledged by Psaios for the sake of the defending party in connection with a court fee.

  Subject Headings

  Arbitration

  Debt

  House Ownership

  Literacy--Egypt--Aphrodito (Extinct city)

  Imperial Oath

  Inheritance

  Land Ownership

  Pakerk¯e (Extinct city)

  Poverty

  Price

  Priest (Christian)

  Religion (Christian)

  Sale

  Security

  Settlement

  Tax Collection

  Violence

  Woman

  Persons

  Ioannes (John) (deceased);

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

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

  Aurelius Psaios son of Mousaios, husband of Talous (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

  Apollos son of Ioannes (deceased);

  Paulos son of Ioannes;

  Maria daughter of Ioannes;

  Aurelia Talous daughter of Herakleios, wife of Psaios;

  Theodosios, from Pakerke;

  Tausiris (see Geographica);

  Hermaouos (Hermauos) son of Psyros, former presbyteros (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  (unnamed) heirs of Maria daughter of Psaios (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  apa Besarion son of Ioannes, presbyteros (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  (unnamed) heirs of Rachel daughter of Hermaouos;

  Iustinianus, Emperor;

  Aurelius Abraam (Abraham) son of Biktor, former boethos (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

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

  Flavius Victor son of Anouthes;

  Aurelius [- - -], protokometes;

  Aurelius Anouphis son of Iakybios (Iakob; Jacob), entoleus (see Travaux et Mémoires 10 [1987] p. 140);

  Flavius Victor son of Ioannes, exkeptor tes doukikes taxeos (exceptor duciani officii) (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2)

  Geographica

  Pakerke; Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome; ktema kaloumenon Tausireos; Antinoou (polis)

  Translation

  [- - -] at the evaluation worth a quantity of more than thirty-six gold nomismata and that even the thirty-six goldpieces which really had been included as the price in the deed of sale had not been fully paid to him at that time and he produced a security written, as he pretended, by his own hand concluded between him and Ioannes of discreet memory at - - - of eighteen nomismata by the balance of the same village for the remainder of the price of the holdings sold to him, because the produced security contained it thus. Opposing this the most discreet Victor and Senouthes, undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory (said) that, on the one hand, they absolutely rejected as not genuine the produced security for the eighteen nomismata from Psaios saying that it was in no regard true and they asked for that agreement. They also proved that the deed of sale of the holding in the first place had been executed without force and constraint and that the gold of the price, thirty-six nomismata, had been paid in full to him, and especially they produced the deed of sale concluded with the most discreet Ioannes concerning the afore-mentioned holding containing also the witnesses who at that time appended their signatures and bore witness to the payment of the thirty-six nomismata. They also produced another sale of a right to feed off concluded at some other, later time by Psaios with the afore-mentioned Ioannes of discreet memory containing a notice of the before-concluded deed of sale concerning the afore-mentioned holding and validating it and because of this confidently affirming and maintaining that if he had executed before the deed of sale concerning the holding by force and compulsion he would not have afterwards validated it by the later executed deed of sale concerning the right to feed off. Counterpleading against this the people of the prosecuting party acknowledged that the later concluded deed of sale concerning the right tofeeed off had been executed without any force but they said that they did not know how a notice had crept up in it of the earlier sale concerning the holding but that more likely it had by fraud or deceit of the notary at that time be included and they simply asked from the people of the defending party to prove the payment of the thirty-six nomismata. They said that they could not produce other witnesses or other proofs of the payment of the thirty-six nomismata and that proofs concerning that part of the deal could not be legally demanded from them as already a period of twenty years, more or less, had passed since the holding had been sold and the deed of sale concerning it had been drawn up. Pleading against this the people of the prosecuting party proved that they had often used loud complaints in the Holy Church against Ioannes of discreet memory and that they also often had approached the praeses of the province regarding this reason but that after there had been much cajolery by the opponents the discussion about that inquiry had been closed. And after other pleadings had been brought forward by the people of the defending party concerning the execution of the deed of sale concerning the holding and after many things had been said and pleaded in these matters by the people of both parties the people of both parties at last resolved and agreed in accordance with an arbitration and a friendly arrangement and judgment and examination by a common arbiter that the most discreet Victor and Senouthes undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory would swear a bodily oath that they knew for certain that the thirty-six goldpieces had been paid as the price of the afore-mentioned holding to Psaios and his wife Talous at the time of the sale and that in this way fourteen further nomismata each less four carats by the public standard have been paid to Psaios in addition as the price for the sold holding. For after having accurately investigated the rents of the afore-mentioned holding and all the public taxes that rest on it and after an accurate calculation of the remaining true revenues annually from the same holding after subtraction of the pious taxes it was resolved that accurately the holding was worth fifty nomismata and these gold ones. After these matters having been thus resolved and agreed upon by the people of both parties in accordance with the judgment and the arbitration of the common arbiter they jointly chose the most discreet Victor, presbyter, and Senouthes have sworn the bodily oath to Psaios and Talous that they very accurately knew that Ioannes of discreet memory paid them then, at the time of the sale the thirty-six goldpieces incapable of diminution. And now they have paid them the further fourteen goldpieces each less four carats by the public standard.

  Psaios also brought forward against Victor and Senouthes undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory that he sold them two other holdings, of however many arourai they may have been, for a low price at the time of difficulties not by force or by constraint of any sort but because of shortage of food and concerning these matters it has been decided by the common arbiter to keep quiet and not to make an inquiry against them regarding these matters because the alienation of these holdings had been made not by constraint but of his own free will.

  He also brought forward against them that he had been asked for a certain amount of corn and gold by Apollos allegedly for taxes and that although he did not owe anything and as a confirmation for the things having been said by him he produced a security concerning it. Pleading against these Victor and Senouthes said that they did not know anything accurately regarding this part as Apollos of blessed memory had left this earthly life nineteen years ago, more or less, and they have sworn an oath to him that they did not know anything concerning this inquiry.

  Psaios also brought forward against them that because of a court fee he had executed a security for them on a house that belongs to him for the security and freedom of encumbrances of the fourth part of the holding of Theodosios from Pakerke located in the plain of the village of Aphrodite of the same Antaiopolite nome and the persons of both parties resolved and agreed that the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory would have no claim against Psaios concerning the afore-mentioned house.

  And for the removal of every ambiguity between the parties it has been resolved to tear up the receipt for the eighteen nomismata brought by Psaios and also the security concerning the grain and the gold that had been asked forsooth on account of taxes and if anything else remained perhaps out of forgetfulness with him that had not been newly brought forward it has been resolved that that also will have absolutely no value but will be invalid and without authority because that has been decided between both parties so as to remove every inquiry and ambiguity.

  These things having been thus resolved and being acquiesced in by the people of both parties out of necessity they executed this general and comprehensive settlement being destructive to every hindrance and to every seed of a law-suit in accordance with which, on the one hand, Psaios and Talous acknowledge that they have received the remaining fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price of the holding called Tausiris in accordance with what has been resolved between them, the boundaries of the same holding are as follows: in the South the fields of the heirs of Hermaouos, son of Psyros, former presbyter, in the North the fields of the heirs of Maria, daughter of Psaios, in the East the fields of Apa Besarion, son of Ioannes, presbyter, in the West the fields of the heirs of Rachel, daughter of Hermaouos, or whatever the boundaries may be, everywhere and on all sides, and they acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory concerning the afore-mentioned holdings which have been sold to them at different times nor concerning a part thereof nor concerning the crops of the whole fore-going time nor concerning any corporeal or incorporeal right belonging to them, but they also acknowledge that the at different times concluded deeds of sale concerning them are valid and inviolable wherever they are produced. On the other hand, Psaios acknowledges that he will remove at his own risk and that of his property in accordance with the force of the concerning them concluded deeds of sale everyone who will take proceedings against the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory concerning the holdings bought from him or concerning a part thereof. And if Theodosios of Pakerke takes at any time or in any way proceedings against a part of the same holdings making a request or his heirs or someones of his family it has been resolved that the same heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes now undertaking business for them will produce the between them and the afore-mentioned Theodosios concluded agreement which embodies a settlement and which lies with them and of which agreement they newly have handed a copy with their subscriptions and that Psaios thus having taken this settlement and using it and whatever other lawful rights he wants removes the afore-mentioned Theodosios taking proceedings against the same things or against a part thereof or his heirs and thus after the conflicts returns again the warranted copy of the same agreement to the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory. If at any time or in any way they defer to produce this afore-mentioned settlement, the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes who now undertake business for them, when an inquiry is being made by Theodosios, the afore-mentioned, concerning a part of the same holdings it has been resolved that not Psaios will remove the afore-mentioned Theodosios nor his heirs who may oppose for him concerning a part of the same holdings but that the risk of the removal and the clearance of Theodosios will lay with the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or the persons who undertake business for them because they refused to produce the settlement as it has been thus resolved by the parties. And they allow them to partake in them, to enjoy them, to harvest the crops from them, to manage them in whatever proprietary way they may please for all continually succeeding time and they acknowledge that they have annihilated every claim regarding the afore-mentioned holdings or part thereof, suiting them or possibly suiting them. They also acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against them neither concerning the taxes because they have been asked in surplus nor concerning any case whatsoever generally but they also acknowledge that if any other papyrus or receipt concerning this law-case has been left with them that it will be invalid and without force wherever it will be produced because it has been thus resolved between the parties so as to remove and to cut out every inquiry concerning it.

  Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against Psaios concerning the house that belongs to him and that they will not oppose him concerning it at no time or in no way whatsoever but that they will also hand over when they find it the written security which has lately been concluded between him and them or that it, when it stays with them, will be idle and invalid wherever it will be produced. They further acknowledge that they recognize ceaselessly for all the succeeding time all the public taxes which are attached to the holdings that at different times have been sold to Ioannes of discreet memory in accordance with the measurement that has been taken or with any other measurement that is bound to be while the risk of the diminution or of the increase of the public taxes that is bound to be will regard them at their own risk and that of their property and they also acknowledge that Psaios and his wife Talous will be not liable to penalty and will be undisturbed concerning all public taxes regarding the same holdings from the moment they or Ioannes of discreet memory took the same holdings over until now and for all the succeeding time.

  And they acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against them concerning whatsoever other matter generally nor in regard to expenses nor to penalties because this general settlement has been concluded between them for every removal and complete cutting out of the law-suit concerning them and in accordance with this settlement the people of each party acknowledge all to all othrs and each separately that they have no longer any claim against each other concerning whatsoever matter, small or big, written or unwritten, thought of or not thought of, remembered or not remembered, said or unsaid, judged or un judged and that they for the future do not prosecute nor shall prosecute each other either in a lawcourt in the country nor in a lawcourt abroad or outside the lawcourts not they by themselves nor by a representative nor by a man of straw whosoever not they themselves nor their heirs nor their assigns nor their successors not they each other nor the heirs nor the assigns nor the successors of each other because they have settled in all points according to the afore-said written decision and each party has in regard to all these points sworn by the holy and consubstantial Trinity and by the victory and the safety of the gloriously triumphant Lord of the universe Flavius Justinianus the eternal Augustus Imperator that they shall abide by all that has been afore mentioned and that they in no way shall transgress them. And if anyone of them shall dare to transgress it or to do something contrary to this settlement the party which does not abide to it acknowledges to give to the party which abides to it as a fine for the reason of only the transgression a hundred gold nomismata of good weight which may be demanded with full power of action and that thereafter he shall be answerable for the risk of perjury and that nevertheless this settlement shall stay unbroken and unshaken for all the succeeding time, which settlement they have executed for each other for their safety being valid and effective wherever it is produced and having asked each other the formal question and having been asked by each other the formal question they agreed to all that has been written above and to every point that they were so, and so to give, do, keep, and abide by. And for all that is written above and for the claim to the afore-mentioned penalty, if it suits to claim it, they have submitted to each other all their possessions, present and future, movable, immovable and life-stock as a pledge and with the force of a mortgage. (Cross)

  (2nd hand) (Cross) I, Victor, son of Besarion, presbyter, undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement in accordance with all the pledges and agreements it contains with which I agree and of which I approve and I have given in addition to the afore-mentioned Psaios and his wife Talous the fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price of the afore-mentioned holding called Tausiris and I have sworn the divine oath for all that has been written above and for the afore-mentioned fine and I comply with all things as they have been written above and having subscribed I delivered it.

  (3rd hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Senouthes, son of Apollos, undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement in accordance with all the pledges and agreements which it contains with which I agree and of which I approve and I have given in addition to the afore-mentioned Psaios and his wife Talous the fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price for the afore-mentioned holding called Tausiris and I have sworn the divine oath for all that has been written above and for the afore-mentioned fine and I comply with all things as they have been written above and having subscribed I delivered it.

  (4th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Psaios, son of Mousaios, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement as afore said. (Cross)

  (5th hand) I, Aurelia Talous, daughter of Herakleios, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement as afore said. I, Aurelius Abraam, son of Victor, ex-assistant from the same village of Aphrodite have written it at her request because she cannot write.

  (6th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Apollos, son of Dioskoros, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (7th hand) (Cross) . . .

  (8th hand) I, Flavius Victor, son of Anouthos, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (9th hand) I, Aurelius [- - -], protokometes, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (10th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Anouphis, son of Iakobios, from Antinoou (polis), legal representative, bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (11th hand) (Cross) I, Flavius Victor, son of Ioannes, scribe of the ducal staff bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (12th hand) (Cross) Written by me Dios, notary. (3 crosses) (Tachygraphy).

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  Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
  PMich XIII	Sijpesteijn PJ	1977	659	Pl. I-VIII	Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 659, 1977, Pl. I-VIII -- BL VII, 116 (l. 78 [former l. 45]; 349 [former l. 316]); BL IX, 163 (former l. 347 [l. 314]). - See also note; BL XI, 133 (bibliography);	BL VII, 116 (l. 78 [former l. 45]; 349 [former l. 316]); BL IX, 163 (former l. 347 [l. 314]). - See also note; BL XI, 133 (bibliography);

  Information on Publications--Bibliography

  Bibliography

  J. Gascou, CE 52 (1977) p. 361-362; J. Gascou-L.S.B. MacCoull, Travaux et Mémoires 10 (1987) p. 140; Jean Gascou, Fiscalite et societe en Egypte byzantine, Achcbyz 1008, pp. 282, 284, 306, 438

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  Notes

  Of the nine fragments published separately in the ed.pr., 6 have been joined, adding 26 lines at the beginning of the main piece; the place of a small fragment bearing the fragmentary line 1 of the ed.pr. proved to be wrong. The position of the new fragments 1-3, as well as that of P.Vat.Aphrod. 17, is still uncertain, but they certainly belong to the top of the roll. To sum up:

  l. 1-5 = P.Vat.Aphrod. 17;

  l. 6-8 = frg. 1 (formerly frg. 6 [l. 356-357]);

  l. 9-12 = frg. 2 + 3 (formerly frg. 4 [l. 349-352] and 8 [l. 360] + 5 [353-355]);

  l. 13-21 = former frg. 1 [l. 320-328] + 9 [l. 361-363] [with l. 328 = l. 1 = l. 339; and l. 321-323 = l. 361-363];

  l. 21-30 = former frg. 3 [l. 339-348] + 7 [l. 359] [with l. 328 = l. 1 = l. 339; l. 344 = l. 359; and l. 348 = l. 329];

  l. 30-39 = former frg. 2 [l. 329-338] [with l. 329 = l. 348; and l. 338 = l. 2];

  l. 39-356 = former l. 2-319. (PH)

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  Inventory Number

  P.Mich.inv. 6899

  Processing Number

  3009

  Section/Side

  Recto

  Background and Physical Properties

  Publ./Side

  Recto (written across the fibres); Verso is blank

  Connections

  + P.Vat.Aphrod. 17. - Archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito.

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  Main piece: 565 x 29.5 cm; frg. 1; 7 x 5 cm; frg. 2: 14.1 x 5.5 cm; frg. 3: 11.5 x 4.8 cm; P.Vat.Aphrod. 17: 8.6 x 7.3 cm

  Items

  1 main piece (made of 29 sheets, some of which broken in several fragments; now divided in five mountings); 3 loose fragments

  Lines

  Frg. 1: 3;

  frg. 2 + 3: 4;

  P.Vat.Aphrod. 17: 5;

  main piece: 344 (see note)

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  Yes

  Conservation Status

  broken off at the top, which was at the outside when the papyrus was rolled

  Palaeographic Description

  Recto written across the fibres (transversa charta); 28 kollemata are to be found on the main piece; the scribe, Aurelius Abraam, son of Victor, is highly trained. (Sijpesteijn) - 4th hand: slow-writer

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  ca. 527-538 A.D.

  Origin

  Antinoe (Antinoou polis), 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; Aurelius Senouthes, son of Apollos; Aurelius Psaios, son of Mousaios

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Settlement

  Content

  Settlement made out of court by, on the one hand, Apollos (deceased), Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of a certain Ioannes (John), represented by the presbyter Victor, son of Besarion, and by Senouthes, son of Apollos, and.on the other hand, Psaios, son of Mousaios, and his wife Talous, daughter of Herakleios. Several issues were at stake between them: the price of several holdings bought by Ioannes to Psaios and his wife, and its payment; taxes collected by Apollos on Psaios, allegedly wrongfully; and a house pledged by Psaios for the sake of the defending party in connection with a court fee.

  Subject Headings

  Arbitration

  Debt

  House Ownership

  Literacy--Egypt--Aphrodito (Extinct city)

  Imperial Oath

  Inheritance

  Land Ownership

  Pakerk¯e (Extinct city)

  Poverty

  Price

  Priest (Christian)

  Religion (Christian)

  Sale

  Security

  Settlement

  Tax Collection

  Violence

  Woman

  Persons

  Ioannes (John) (deceased);

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

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

  Aurelius Psaios son of Mousaios, husband of Talous (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

  Apollos son of Ioannes (deceased);

  Paulos son of Ioannes;

  Maria daughter of Ioannes;

  Aurelia Talous daughter of Herakleios, wife of Psaios;

  Theodosios, from Pakerke;

  Tausiris (see Geographica);

  Hermaouos (Hermauos) son of Psyros, former presbyteros (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  (unnamed) heirs of Maria daughter of Psaios (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  apa Besarion son of Ioannes, presbyteros (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  (unnamed) heirs of Rachel daughter of Hermaouos;

  Iustinianus, Emperor;

  Aurelius Abraam (Abraham) son of Biktor, former boethos (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

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

  Flavius Victor son of Anouthes;

  Aurelius [- - -], protokometes;

  Aurelius Anouphis son of Iakybios (Iakob; Jacob), entoleus (see Travaux et Mémoires 10 [1987] p. 140);

  Flavius Victor son of Ioannes, exkeptor tes doukikes taxeos (exceptor duciani officii) (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2)

  Geographica

  Pakerke; Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome; ktema kaloumenon Tausireos; Antinoou (polis)

  Translation

  [- - -] at the evaluation worth a quantity of more than thirty-six gold nomismata and that even the thirty-six goldpieces which really had been included as the price in the deed of sale had not been fully paid to him at that time and he produced a security written, as he pretended, by his own hand concluded between him and Ioannes of discreet memory at - - - of eighteen nomismata by the balance of the same village for the remainder of the price of the holdings sold to him, because the produced security contained it thus. Opposing this the most discreet Victor and Senouthes, undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory (said) that, on the one hand, they absolutely rejected as not genuine the produced security for the eighteen nomismata from Psaios saying that it was in no regard true and they asked for that agreement. They also proved that the deed of sale of the holding in the first place had been executed without force and constraint and that the gold of the price, thirty-six nomismata, had been paid in full to him, and especially they produced the deed of sale concluded with the most discreet Ioannes concerning the afore-mentioned holding containing also the witnesses who at that time appended their signatures and bore witness to the payment of the thirty-six nomismata. They also produced another sale of a right to feed off concluded at some other, later time by Psaios with the afore-mentioned Ioannes of discreet memory containing a notice of the before-concluded deed of sale concerning the afore-mentioned holding and validating it and because of this confidently affirming and maintaining that if he had executed before the deed of sale concerning the holding by force and compulsion he would not have afterwards validated it by the later executed deed of sale concerning the right to feed off. Counterpleading against this the people of the prosecuting party acknowledged that the later concluded deed of sale concerning the right tofeeed off had been executed without any force but they said that they did not know how a notice had crept up in it of the earlier sale concerning the holding but that more likely it had by fraud or deceit of the notary at that time be included and they simply asked from the people of the defending party to prove the payment of the thirty-six nomismata. They said that they could not produce other witnesses or other proofs of the payment of the thirty-six nomismata and that proofs concerning that part of the deal could not be legally demanded from them as already a period of twenty years, more or less, had passed since the holding had been sold and the deed of sale concerning it had been drawn up. Pleading against this the people of the prosecuting party proved that they had often used loud complaints in the Holy Church against Ioannes of discreet memory and that they also often had approached the praeses of the province regarding this reason but that after there had been much cajolery by the opponents the discussion about that inquiry had been closed. And after other pleadings had been brought forward by the people of the defending party concerning the execution of the deed of sale concerning the holding and after many things had been said and pleaded in these matters by the people of both parties the people of both parties at last resolved and agreed in accordance with an arbitration and a friendly arrangement and judgment and examination by a common arbiter that the most discreet Victor and Senouthes undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory would swear a bodily oath that they knew for certain that the thirty-six goldpieces had been paid as the price of the afore-mentioned holding to Psaios and his wife Talous at the time of the sale and that in this way fourteen further nomismata each less four carats by the public standard have been paid to Psaios in addition as the price for the sold holding. For after having accurately investigated the rents of the afore-mentioned holding and all the public taxes that rest on it and after an accurate calculation of the remaining true revenues annually from the same holding after subtraction of the pious taxes it was resolved that accurately the holding was worth fifty nomismata and these gold ones. After these matters having been thus resolved and agreed upon by the people of both parties in accordance with the judgment and the arbitration of the common arbiter they jointly chose the most discreet Victor, presbyter, and Senouthes have sworn the bodily oath to Psaios and Talous that they very accurately knew that Ioannes of discreet memory paid them then, at the time of the sale the thirty-six goldpieces incapable of diminution. And now they have paid them the further fourteen goldpieces each less four carats by the public standard.

  Psaios also brought forward against Victor and Senouthes undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory that he sold them two other holdings, of however many arourai they may have been, for a low price at the time of difficulties not by force or by constraint of any sort but because of shortage of food and concerning these matters it has been decided by the common arbiter to keep quiet and not to make an inquiry against them regarding these matters because the alienation of these holdings had been made not by constraint but of his own free will.

  He also brought forward against them that he had been asked for a certain amount of corn and gold by Apollos allegedly for taxes and that although he did not owe anything and as a confirmation for the things having been said by him he produced a security concerning it. Pleading against these Victor and Senouthes said that they did not know anything accurately regarding this part as Apollos of blessed memory had left this earthly life nineteen years ago, more or less, and they have sworn an oath to him that they did not know anything concerning this inquiry.

  Psaios also brought forward against them that because of a court fee he had executed a security for them on a house that belongs to him for the security and freedom of encumbrances of the fourth part of the holding of Theodosios from Pakerke located in the plain of the village of Aphrodite of the same Antaiopolite nome and the persons of both parties resolved and agreed that the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory would have no claim against Psaios concerning the afore-mentioned house.

  And for the removal of every ambiguity between the parties it has been resolved to tear up the receipt for the eighteen nomismata brought by Psaios and also the security concerning the grain and the gold that had been asked forsooth on account of taxes and if anything else remained perhaps out of forgetfulness with him that had not been newly brought forward it has been resolved that that also will have absolutely no value but will be invalid and without authority because that has been decided between both parties so as to remove every inquiry and ambiguity.

  These things having been thus resolved and being acquiesced in by the people of both parties out of necessity they executed this general and comprehensive settlement being destructive to every hindrance and to every seed of a law-suit in accordance with which, on the one hand, Psaios and Talous acknowledge that they have received the remaining fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price of the holding called Tausiris in accordance with what has been resolved between them, the boundaries of the same holding are as follows: in the South the fields of the heirs of Hermaouos, son of Psyros, former presbyter, in the North the fields of the heirs of Maria, daughter of Psaios, in the East the fields of Apa Besarion, son of Ioannes, presbyter, in the West the fields of the heirs of Rachel, daughter of Hermaouos, or whatever the boundaries may be, everywhere and on all sides, and they acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory concerning the afore-mentioned holdings which have been sold to them at different times nor concerning a part thereof nor concerning the crops of the whole fore-going time nor concerning any corporeal or incorporeal right belonging to them, but they also acknowledge that the at different times concluded deeds of sale concerning them are valid and inviolable wherever they are produced. On the other hand, Psaios acknowledges that he will remove at his own risk and that of his property in accordance with the force of the concerning them concluded deeds of sale everyone who will take proceedings against the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory concerning the holdings bought from him or concerning a part thereof. And if Theodosios of Pakerke takes at any time or in any way proceedings against a part of the same holdings making a request or his heirs or someones of his family it has been resolved that the same heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes now undertaking business for them will produce the between them and the afore-mentioned Theodosios concluded agreement which embodies a settlement and which lies with them and of which agreement they newly have handed a copy with their subscriptions and that Psaios thus having taken this settlement and using it and whatever other lawful rights he wants removes the afore-mentioned Theodosios taking proceedings against the same things or against a part thereof or his heirs and thus after the conflicts returns again the warranted copy of the same agreement to the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory. If at any time or in any way they defer to produce this afore-mentioned settlement, the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes who now undertake business for them, when an inquiry is being made by Theodosios, the afore-mentioned, concerning a part of the same holdings it has been resolved that not Psaios will remove the afore-mentioned Theodosios nor his heirs who may oppose for him concerning a part of the same holdings but that the risk of the removal and the clearance of Theodosios will lay with the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or the persons who undertake business for them because they refused to produce the settlement as it has been thus resolved by the parties. And they allow them to partake in them, to enjoy them, to harvest the crops from them, to manage them in whatever proprietary way they may please for all continually succeeding time and they acknowledge that they have annihilated every claim regarding the afore-mentioned holdings or part thereof, suiting them or possibly suiting them. They also acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against them neither concerning the taxes because they have been asked in surplus nor concerning any case whatsoever generally but they also acknowledge that if any other papyrus or receipt concerning this law-case has been left with them that it will be invalid and without force wherever it will be produced because it has been thus resolved between the parties so as to remove and to cut out every inquiry concerning it.

  Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against Psaios concerning the house that belongs to him and that they will not oppose him concerning it at no time or in no way whatsoever but that they will also hand over when they find it the written security which has lately been concluded between him and them or that it, when it stays with them, will be idle and invalid wherever it will be produced. They further acknowledge that they recognize ceaselessly for all the succeeding time all the public taxes which are attached to the holdings that at different times have been sold to Ioannes of discreet memory in accordance with the measurement that has been taken or with any other measurement that is bound to be while the risk of the diminution or of the increase of the public taxes that is bound to be will regard them at their own risk and that of their property and they also acknowledge that Psaios and his wife Talous will be not liable to penalty and will be undisturbed concerning all public taxes regarding the same holdings from the moment they or Ioannes of discreet memory took the same holdings over until now and for all the succeeding time.

  And they acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against them concerning whatsoever other matter generally nor in regard to expenses nor to penalties because this general settlement has been concluded between them for every removal and complete cutting out of the law-suit concerning them and in accordance with this settlement the people of each party acknowledge all to all othrs and each separately that they have no longer any claim against each other concerning whatsoever matter, small or big, written or unwritten, thought of or not thought of, remembered or not remembered, said or unsaid, judged or un judged and that they for the future do not prosecute nor shall prosecute each other either in a lawcourt in the country nor in a lawcourt abroad or outside the lawcourts not they by themselves nor by a representative nor by a man of straw whosoever not they themselves nor their heirs nor their assigns nor their successors not they each other nor the heirs nor the assigns nor the successors of each other because they have settled in all points according to the afore-said written decision and each party has in regard to all these points sworn by the holy and consubstantial Trinity and by the victory and the safety of the gloriously triumphant Lord of the universe Flavius Justinianus the eternal Augustus Imperator that they shall abide by all that has been afore mentioned and that they in no way shall transgress them. And if anyone of them shall dare to transgress it or to do something contrary to this settlement the party which does not abide to it acknowledges to give to the party which abides to it as a fine for the reason of only the transgression a hundred gold nomismata of good weight which may be demanded with full power of action and that thereafter he shall be answerable for the risk of perjury and that nevertheless this settlement shall stay unbroken and unshaken for all the succeeding time, which settlement they have executed for each other for their safety being valid and effective wherever it is produced and having asked each other the formal question and having been asked by each other the formal question they agreed to all that has been written above and to every point that they were so, and so to give, do, keep, and abide by. And for all that is written above and for the claim to the afore-mentioned penalty, if it suits to claim it, they have submitted to each other all their possessions, present and future, movable, immovable and life-stock as a pledge and with the force of a mortgage. (Cross)

  (2nd hand) (Cross) I, Victor, son of Besarion, presbyter, undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement in accordance with all the pledges and agreements it contains with which I agree and of which I approve and I have given in addition to the afore-mentioned Psaios and his wife Talous the fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price of the afore-mentioned holding called Tausiris and I have sworn the divine oath for all that has been written above and for the afore-mentioned fine and I comply with all things as they have been written above and having subscribed I delivered it.

  (3rd hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Senouthes, son of Apollos, undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement in accordance with all the pledges and agreements which it contains with which I agree and of which I approve and I have given in addition to the afore-mentioned Psaios and his wife Talous the fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price for the afore-mentioned holding called Tausiris and I have sworn the divine oath for all that has been written above and for the afore-mentioned fine and I comply with all things as they have been written above and having subscribed I delivered it.

  (4th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Psaios, son of Mousaios, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement as afore said. (Cross)

  (5th hand) I, Aurelia Talous, daughter of Herakleios, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement as afore said. I, Aurelius Abraam, son of Victor, ex-assistant from the same village of Aphrodite have written it at her request because she cannot write.

  (6th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Apollos, son of Dioskoros, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (7th hand) (Cross) . . .

  (8th hand) I, Flavius Victor, son of Anouthos, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (9th hand) I, Aurelius [- - -], protokometes, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (10th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Anouphis, son of Iakobios, from Antinoou (polis), legal representative, bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (11th hand) (Cross) I, Flavius Victor, son of Ioannes, scribe of the ducal staff bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (12th hand) (Cross) Written by me Dios, notary. (3 crosses) (Tachygraphy).

  Information on Publications

  Publications

  Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
  PMich XIII	Sijpesteijn PJ	1977	659	Pl. I-VIII	Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 659, 1977, Pl. I-VIII -- BL VII, 116 (l. 78 [former l. 45]; 349 [former l. 316]); BL IX, 163 (former l. 347 [l. 314]). - See also note; BL XI, 133 (bibliography);	BL VII, 116 (l. 78 [former l. 45]; 349 [former l. 316]); BL IX, 163 (former l. 347 [l. 314]). - See also note; BL XI, 133 (bibliography);

  Information on Publications--Bibliography

  Bibliography

  J. Gascou, CE 52 (1977) p. 361-362; J. Gascou-L.S.B. MacCoull, Travaux et Mémoires 10 (1987) p. 140; Jean Gascou, Fiscalite et societe en Egypte byzantine, Achcbyz 1008, pp. 282, 284, 306, 438

  Information on Publications--Notes

  Notes

  Of the nine fragments published separately in the ed.pr., 6 have been joined, adding 26 lines at the beginning of the main piece; the place of a small fragment bearing the fragmentary line 1 of the ed.pr. proved to be wrong. The position of the new fragments 1-3, as well as that of P.Vat.Aphrod. 17, is still uncertain, but they certainly belong to the top of the roll. To sum up:

  l. 1-5 = P.Vat.Aphrod. 17;

  l. 6-8 = frg. 1 (formerly frg. 6 [l. 356-357]);

  l. 9-12 = frg. 2 + 3 (formerly frg. 4 [l. 349-352] and 8 [l. 360] + 5 [353-355]);

  l. 13-21 = former frg. 1 [l. 320-328] + 9 [l. 361-363] [with l. 328 = l. 1 = l. 339; and l. 321-323 = l. 361-363];

  l. 21-30 = former frg. 3 [l. 339-348] + 7 [l. 359] [with l. 328 = l. 1 = l. 339; l. 344 = l. 359; and l. 348 = l. 329];

  l. 30-39 = former frg. 2 [l. 329-338] [with l. 329 = l. 348; and l. 338 = l. 2];

  l. 39-356 = former l. 2-319. (PH)

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  Section/Side

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  Background and Physical Properties

  Publ./Side

  Recto (written across the fibres); Verso is blank

  Connections

  + P.Vat.Aphrod. 17. - Archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito.

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  Main piece: 565 x 29.5 cm; frg. 1; 7 x 5 cm; frg. 2: 14.1 x 5.5 cm; frg. 3: 11.5 x 4.8 cm; P.Vat.Aphrod. 17: 8.6 x 7.3 cm

  Items

  1 main piece (made of 29 sheets, some of which broken in several fragments; now divided in five mountings); 3 loose fragments

  Lines

  Frg. 1: 3;

  frg. 2 + 3: 4;

  P.Vat.Aphrod. 17: 5;

  main piece: 344 (see note)

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  Yes

  Conservation Status

  broken off at the top, which was at the outside when the papyrus was rolled

  Palaeographic Description

  Recto written across the fibres (transversa charta); 28 kollemata are to be found on the main piece; the scribe, Aurelius Abraam, son of Victor, is highly trained. (Sijpesteijn) - 4th hand: slow-writer

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  ca. 527-538 A.D.

  Origin

  Antinoe (Antinoou polis), 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; Aurelius Senouthes, son of Apollos; Aurelius Psaios, son of Mousaios

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Settlement

  Content

  Settlement made out of court by, on the one hand, Apollos (deceased), Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of a certain Ioannes (John), represented by the presbyter Victor, son of Besarion, and by Senouthes, son of Apollos, and.on the other hand, Psaios, son of Mousaios, and his wife Talous, daughter of Herakleios. Several issues were at stake between them: the price of several holdings bought by Ioannes to Psaios and his wife, and its payment; taxes collected by Apollos on Psaios, allegedly wrongfully; and a house pledged by Psaios for the sake of the defending party in connection with a court fee.

  Subject Headings

  Arbitration

  Debt

  House Ownership

  Literacy--Egypt--Aphrodito (Extinct city)

  Imperial Oath

  Inheritance

  Land Ownership

  Pakerk¯e (Extinct city)

  Poverty

  Price

  Priest (Christian)

  Religion (Christian)

  Sale

  Security

  Settlement

  Tax Collection

  Violence

  Woman

  Persons

  Ioannes (John) (deceased);

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

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

  Aurelius Psaios son of Mousaios, husband of Talous (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

  Apollos son of Ioannes (deceased);

  Paulos son of Ioannes;

  Maria daughter of Ioannes;

  Aurelia Talous daughter of Herakleios, wife of Psaios;

  Theodosios, from Pakerke;

  Tausiris (see Geographica);

  Hermaouos (Hermauos) son of Psyros, former presbyteros (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  (unnamed) heirs of Maria daughter of Psaios (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  apa Besarion son of Ioannes, presbyteros (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  (unnamed) heirs of Rachel daughter of Hermaouos;

  Iustinianus, Emperor;

  Aurelius Abraam (Abraham) son of Biktor, former boethos (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

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

  Flavius Victor son of Anouthes;

  Aurelius [- - -], protokometes;

  Aurelius Anouphis son of Iakybios (Iakob; Jacob), entoleus (see Travaux et Mémoires 10 [1987] p. 140);

  Flavius Victor son of Ioannes, exkeptor tes doukikes taxeos (exceptor duciani officii) (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2)

  Geographica

  Pakerke; Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome; ktema kaloumenon Tausireos; Antinoou (polis)

  Translation

  [- - -] at the evaluation worth a quantity of more than thirty-six gold nomismata and that even the thirty-six goldpieces which really had been included as the price in the deed of sale had not been fully paid to him at that time and he produced a security written, as he pretended, by his own hand concluded between him and Ioannes of discreet memory at - - - of eighteen nomismata by the balance of the same village for the remainder of the price of the holdings sold to him, because the produced security contained it thus. Opposing this the most discreet Victor and Senouthes, undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory (said) that, on the one hand, they absolutely rejected as not genuine the produced security for the eighteen nomismata from Psaios saying that it was in no regard true and they asked for that agreement. They also proved that the deed of sale of the holding in the first place had been executed without force and constraint and that the gold of the price, thirty-six nomismata, had been paid in full to him, and especially they produced the deed of sale concluded with the most discreet Ioannes concerning the afore-mentioned holding containing also the witnesses who at that time appended their signatures and bore witness to the payment of the thirty-six nomismata. They also produced another sale of a right to feed off concluded at some other, later time by Psaios with the afore-mentioned Ioannes of discreet memory containing a notice of the before-concluded deed of sale concerning the afore-mentioned holding and validating it and because of this confidently affirming and maintaining that if he had executed before the deed of sale concerning the holding by force and compulsion he would not have afterwards validated it by the later executed deed of sale concerning the right to feed off. Counterpleading against this the people of the prosecuting party acknowledged that the later concluded deed of sale concerning the right tofeeed off had been executed without any force but they said that they did not know how a notice had crept up in it of the earlier sale concerning the holding but that more likely it had by fraud or deceit of the notary at that time be included and they simply asked from the people of the defending party to prove the payment of the thirty-six nomismata. They said that they could not produce other witnesses or other proofs of the payment of the thirty-six nomismata and that proofs concerning that part of the deal could not be legally demanded from them as already a period of twenty years, more or less, had passed since the holding had been sold and the deed of sale concerning it had been drawn up. Pleading against this the people of the prosecuting party proved that they had often used loud complaints in the Holy Church against Ioannes of discreet memory and that they also often had approached the praeses of the province regarding this reason but that after there had been much cajolery by the opponents the discussion about that inquiry had been closed. And after other pleadings had been brought forward by the people of the defending party concerning the execution of the deed of sale concerning the holding and after many things had been said and pleaded in these matters by the people of both parties the people of both parties at last resolved and agreed in accordance with an arbitration and a friendly arrangement and judgment and examination by a common arbiter that the most discreet Victor and Senouthes undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory would swear a bodily oath that they knew for certain that the thirty-six goldpieces had been paid as the price of the afore-mentioned holding to Psaios and his wife Talous at the time of the sale and that in this way fourteen further nomismata each less four carats by the public standard have been paid to Psaios in addition as the price for the sold holding. For after having accurately investigated the rents of the afore-mentioned holding and all the public taxes that rest on it and after an accurate calculation of the remaining true revenues annually from the same holding after subtraction of the pious taxes it was resolved that accurately the holding was worth fifty nomismata and these gold ones. After these matters having been thus resolved and agreed upon by the people of both parties in accordance with the judgment and the arbitration of the common arbiter they jointly chose the most discreet Victor, presbyter, and Senouthes have sworn the bodily oath to Psaios and Talous that they very accurately knew that Ioannes of discreet memory paid them then, at the time of the sale the thirty-six goldpieces incapable of diminution. And now they have paid them the further fourteen goldpieces each less four carats by the public standard.

  Psaios also brought forward against Victor and Senouthes undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory that he sold them two other holdings, of however many arourai they may have been, for a low price at the time of difficulties not by force or by constraint of any sort but because of shortage of food and concerning these matters it has been decided by the common arbiter to keep quiet and not to make an inquiry against them regarding these matters because the alienation of these holdings had been made not by constraint but of his own free will.

  He also brought forward against them that he had been asked for a certain amount of corn and gold by Apollos allegedly for taxes and that although he did not owe anything and as a confirmation for the things having been said by him he produced a security concerning it. Pleading against these Victor and Senouthes said that they did not know anything accurately regarding this part as Apollos of blessed memory had left this earthly life nineteen years ago, more or less, and they have sworn an oath to him that they did not know anything concerning this inquiry.

  Psaios also brought forward against them that because of a court fee he had executed a security for them on a house that belongs to him for the security and freedom of encumbrances of the fourth part of the holding of Theodosios from Pakerke located in the plain of the village of Aphrodite of the same Antaiopolite nome and the persons of both parties resolved and agreed that the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory would have no claim against Psaios concerning the afore-mentioned house.

  And for the removal of every ambiguity between the parties it has been resolved to tear up the receipt for the eighteen nomismata brought by Psaios and also the security concerning the grain and the gold that had been asked forsooth on account of taxes and if anything else remained perhaps out of forgetfulness with him that had not been newly brought forward it has been resolved that that also will have absolutely no value but will be invalid and without authority because that has been decided between both parties so as to remove every inquiry and ambiguity.

  These things having been thus resolved and being acquiesced in by the people of both parties out of necessity they executed this general and comprehensive settlement being destructive to every hindrance and to every seed of a law-suit in accordance with which, on the one hand, Psaios and Talous acknowledge that they have received the remaining fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price of the holding called Tausiris in accordance with what has been resolved between them, the boundaries of the same holding are as follows: in the South the fields of the heirs of Hermaouos, son of Psyros, former presbyter, in the North the fields of the heirs of Maria, daughter of Psaios, in the East the fields of Apa Besarion, son of Ioannes, presbyter, in the West the fields of the heirs of Rachel, daughter of Hermaouos, or whatever the boundaries may be, everywhere and on all sides, and they acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory concerning the afore-mentioned holdings which have been sold to them at different times nor concerning a part thereof nor concerning the crops of the whole fore-going time nor concerning any corporeal or incorporeal right belonging to them, but they also acknowledge that the at different times concluded deeds of sale concerning them are valid and inviolable wherever they are produced. On the other hand, Psaios acknowledges that he will remove at his own risk and that of his property in accordance with the force of the concerning them concluded deeds of sale everyone who will take proceedings against the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory concerning the holdings bought from him or concerning a part thereof. And if Theodosios of Pakerke takes at any time or in any way proceedings against a part of the same holdings making a request or his heirs or someones of his family it has been resolved that the same heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes now undertaking business for them will produce the between them and the afore-mentioned Theodosios concluded agreement which embodies a settlement and which lies with them and of which agreement they newly have handed a copy with their subscriptions and that Psaios thus having taken this settlement and using it and whatever other lawful rights he wants removes the afore-mentioned Theodosios taking proceedings against the same things or against a part thereof or his heirs and thus after the conflicts returns again the warranted copy of the same agreement to the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory. If at any time or in any way they defer to produce this afore-mentioned settlement, the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes who now undertake business for them, when an inquiry is being made by Theodosios, the afore-mentioned, concerning a part of the same holdings it has been resolved that not Psaios will remove the afore-mentioned Theodosios nor his heirs who may oppose for him concerning a part of the same holdings but that the risk of the removal and the clearance of Theodosios will lay with the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or the persons who undertake business for them because they refused to produce the settlement as it has been thus resolved by the parties. And they allow them to partake in them, to enjoy them, to harvest the crops from them, to manage them in whatever proprietary way they may please for all continually succeeding time and they acknowledge that they have annihilated every claim regarding the afore-mentioned holdings or part thereof, suiting them or possibly suiting them. They also acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against them neither concerning the taxes because they have been asked in surplus nor concerning any case whatsoever generally but they also acknowledge that if any other papyrus or receipt concerning this law-case has been left with them that it will be invalid and without force wherever it will be produced because it has been thus resolved between the parties so as to remove and to cut out every inquiry concerning it.

  Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against Psaios concerning the house that belongs to him and that they will not oppose him concerning it at no time or in no way whatsoever but that they will also hand over when they find it the written security which has lately been concluded between him and them or that it, when it stays with them, will be idle and invalid wherever it will be produced. They further acknowledge that they recognize ceaselessly for all the succeeding time all the public taxes which are attached to the holdings that at different times have been sold to Ioannes of discreet memory in accordance with the measurement that has been taken or with any other measurement that is bound to be while the risk of the diminution or of the increase of the public taxes that is bound to be will regard them at their own risk and that of their property and they also acknowledge that Psaios and his wife Talous will be not liable to penalty and will be undisturbed concerning all public taxes regarding the same holdings from the moment they or Ioannes of discreet memory took the same holdings over until now and for all the succeeding time.

  And they acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against them concerning whatsoever other matter generally nor in regard to expenses nor to penalties because this general settlement has been concluded between them for every removal and complete cutting out of the law-suit concerning them and in accordance with this settlement the people of each party acknowledge all to all othrs and each separately that they have no longer any claim against each other concerning whatsoever matter, small or big, written or unwritten, thought of or not thought of, remembered or not remembered, said or unsaid, judged or un judged and that they for the future do not prosecute nor shall prosecute each other either in a lawcourt in the country nor in a lawcourt abroad or outside the lawcourts not they by themselves nor by a representative nor by a man of straw whosoever not they themselves nor their heirs nor their assigns nor their successors not they each other nor the heirs nor the assigns nor the successors of each other because they have settled in all points according to the afore-said written decision and each party has in regard to all these points sworn by the holy and consubstantial Trinity and by the victory and the safety of the gloriously triumphant Lord of the universe Flavius Justinianus the eternal Augustus Imperator that they shall abide by all that has been afore mentioned and that they in no way shall transgress them. And if anyone of them shall dare to transgress it or to do something contrary to this settlement the party which does not abide to it acknowledges to give to the party which abides to it as a fine for the reason of only the transgression a hundred gold nomismata of good weight which may be demanded with full power of action and that thereafter he shall be answerable for the risk of perjury and that nevertheless this settlement shall stay unbroken and unshaken for all the succeeding time, which settlement they have executed for each other for their safety being valid and effective wherever it is produced and having asked each other the formal question and having been asked by each other the formal question they agreed to all that has been written above and to every point that they were so, and so to give, do, keep, and abide by. And for all that is written above and for the claim to the afore-mentioned penalty, if it suits to claim it, they have submitted to each other all their possessions, present and future, movable, immovable and life-stock as a pledge and with the force of a mortgage. (Cross)

  (2nd hand) (Cross) I, Victor, son of Besarion, presbyter, undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement in accordance with all the pledges and agreements it contains with which I agree and of which I approve and I have given in addition to the afore-mentioned Psaios and his wife Talous the fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price of the afore-mentioned holding called Tausiris and I have sworn the divine oath for all that has been written above and for the afore-mentioned fine and I comply with all things as they have been written above and having subscribed I delivered it.

  (3rd hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Senouthes, son of Apollos, undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement in accordance with all the pledges and agreements which it contains with which I agree and of which I approve and I have given in addition to the afore-mentioned Psaios and his wife Talous the fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price for the afore-mentioned holding called Tausiris and I have sworn the divine oath for all that has been written above and for the afore-mentioned fine and I comply with all things as they have been written above and having subscribed I delivered it.

  (4th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Psaios, son of Mousaios, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement as afore said. (Cross)

  (5th hand) I, Aurelia Talous, daughter of Herakleios, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement as afore said. I, Aurelius Abraam, son of Victor, ex-assistant from the same village of Aphrodite have written it at her request because she cannot write.

  (6th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Apollos, son of Dioskoros, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (7th hand) (Cross) . . .

  (8th hand) I, Flavius Victor, son of Anouthos, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (9th hand) I, Aurelius [- - -], protokometes, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (10th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Anouphis, son of Iakobios, from Antinoou (polis), legal representative, bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (11th hand) (Cross) I, Flavius Victor, son of Ioannes, scribe of the ducal staff bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (12th hand) (Cross) Written by me Dios, notary. (3 crosses) (Tachygraphy).

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  Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
  PMich XIII	Sijpesteijn PJ	1977	659	Pl. I-VIII	Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 659, 1977, Pl. I-VIII -- BL VII, 116 (l. 78 [former l. 45]; 349 [former l. 316]); BL IX, 163 (former l. 347 [l. 314]). - See also note; BL XI, 133 (bibliography);	BL VII, 116 (l. 78 [former l. 45]; 349 [former l. 316]); BL IX, 163 (former l. 347 [l. 314]). - See also note; BL XI, 133 (bibliography);

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  Bibliography

  J. Gascou, CE 52 (1977) p. 361-362; J. Gascou-L.S.B. MacCoull, Travaux et Mémoires 10 (1987) p. 140; Jean Gascou, Fiscalite et societe en Egypte byzantine, Achcbyz 1008, pp. 282, 284, 306, 438

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  Notes

  Of the nine fragments published separately in the ed.pr., 6 have been joined, adding 26 lines at the beginning of the main piece; the place of a small fragment bearing the fragmentary line 1 of the ed.pr. proved to be wrong. The position of the new fragments 1-3, as well as that of P.Vat.Aphrod. 17, is still uncertain, but they certainly belong to the top of the roll. To sum up:

  l. 1-5 = P.Vat.Aphrod. 17;

  l. 6-8 = frg. 1 (formerly frg. 6 [l. 356-357]);

  l. 9-12 = frg. 2 + 3 (formerly frg. 4 [l. 349-352] and 8 [l. 360] + 5 [353-355]);

  l. 13-21 = former frg. 1 [l. 320-328] + 9 [l. 361-363] [with l. 328 = l. 1 = l. 339; and l. 321-323 = l. 361-363];

  l. 21-30 = former frg. 3 [l. 339-348] + 7 [l. 359] [with l. 328 = l. 1 = l. 339; l. 344 = l. 359; and l. 348 = l. 329];

  l. 30-39 = former frg. 2 [l. 329-338] [with l. 329 = l. 348; and l. 338 = l. 2];

  l. 39-356 = former l. 2-319. (PH)

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  Date

  ca. 166-169 A.D.

  Origin

  Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

  Provenance

  Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

  Acquisition

  June 1922; Acquired from Nahman through the British Museum

  Language

  Greek

  Genre

  Documentary

  Author

  Psenamounis, son of Psenamounis, priest

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Petition to an Epistrategos

  Content

  The priest Psenamounis, of Bacchias, complains to the epistrategos Lucceius Ofellianus that he has been improperly assigned by the ekboleus chomaton to work on the dike corvée, despite an exemption from such work which had been granted to him at least 11 years previously because of his poor eyesight

  Subject Headings

  Health

  Irrigation

  Liturgy (compulsory public service

  & exemption)

  Priest

  Bacchias (Extinct city)

  Persons

  Lucceius Ofellianus, epistrategos;

  Psenamounis son of Psenamounis grandson of Psenamounis, hiereus;

  Antoninus (Pius), former Emperor;

  Sempronius Liberalis, former prefect;

  (unnamed) komogrammateus and ekboleus chomaton of Bacchias

  Geographica

  Bacchias

  Translation

  To his excellency Lucceius Ofellianus, epistrategos, from Psenamounis, son of Psenamounis and grandson of Psenamounis, from the village of Bacchias, priest.

  As long ago as the 18th year of the deified Aelius Antoninus I, together with some other men, was by reason of my weak vision granted exemption (from corvée labor) by order of Sempronius Liberalis, who then served as prefect; well now, the village secretary and ekboleus chomaton of Bacchias has just assigned me to work on the [dikes - - -]

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  Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
  PMich XI	Shelton JC	1971	618 (A)	Shelton JC, PMich XI, 618 (A), 1971

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  Bibliography

  Tomasz Derda, ARSINOITHS NOMOS. Administration of the Fayum under Roman Rule, Warsaw 2006, p. 201

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  61 x 31 cm

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  Palaeographic Description

  Written across the fibres; 7th hand uses dots to separate one wor from another (as in Latin texts)

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  (Middle of the) 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

  Phoibammon, son of Triadelphos

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Lease of Land

  Content

  Contract by which the landowner Phoibammon, son of Triadelphos, leases a holding from the monastery of Apa Sourous in Aphrodite

  Subject Headings

  Cadastre

  Land Ownership

  Lease

  Priest (Christian)

  Taxation (Land)

  Persons

  Aurelius Phoibammon, son of Triadelphos, ktetor (see last T. Gagos, Archiv 43 [1997] p. 368-373);

  Psentouses <or Psentases?> (see Geographica);

  Tchious (see Geographica);

  (monastery of) apa Sourous (see Calderini, Diz. I, 2, p. 333 etc.);

  Kollouchios (also Koullouchios), monazon kai proestos of the monastery of aba Sourous (see also P.Cair.Masp. III, 67342?);

  Ioannes (John) son of Samouelios (Samuel), presbyteros kai diakonos;

  Ioannes (John), deceased scholasticus and censitor;

  Victor son of Phoibammon, presbyteros of the Hagia Katholike Ekklesia of apa Mousaios (see also P.Michael. 45; P.Lond. V, 1661);

  (Holy Catholic Church of) apa Mousaios (see Calderini, Diz. I, 2, p.339);

  Daueid (David) son of Andreas, anaknostois (anagnostes) of the Hagia Katholike Ekklesia of apa Mousaios;

  Ioannes (John) son of Promaos (Promauos), anagnostes of the Hagios Topos of apa Promaos the martyr (see also P.Cair.Masp. I, 67138-67139?);

  (Holy Place of) apa Promaos (Promauos), martys (see also P.Cair.Masp. III, 67283);

  Aurelius Ioannes (John) son of Kyriakos (see also P.Cair.Masp. I, 67094; 67109)

  Geographica

  ktema (...) legoumenon Psentousetos (see also P.Cair.Masp. I, 67087?); kleros Tchioutos; ktema legomenon ton bapheon; Antaiopolite nome

  Translation

  [- - - we agree] with each other what has been written below. I, the afore-said Phoibammon, son of Triadelphos, landowner, acknowledge to the board of management of the afore-said holy monastery of Apa Sourous through the most highly favoured Kollouchios, monk and manager through you the most discreet Ioannes, son of Samouelios, presbyter and administrator, that I shall give the taxes for the below-mentioned holding of the same holy monastery, called of Psentouses, located in the western plain of the same village in the kleros of Tchious to the west of my own holding called "of the dyers" in corn and the taxes in gold, and the freight-charges and every kind of supply-levy, according to the register in the official book of Ioannes of learned memory, former scholasticus and censitor, or, if such there should be according to any other survey in the Antaipolite nome starting with the crop of the D.V. coming sacred fifteenth indiction, including it, and throughout succeeding time continually for ever. On condition that in addition to the tax-payment for the afore-mentioned holding I shall give you annually twenty artabai of clean corn rendered as rent by your measure and fifty vessels of new sweet wine, each vessel containing six xestai, while you give the vessels, i.e. 20 art. corn and 50 ves. of wine only, the corn at the time of the threshing, the wine at the time of the vintage. If any of us tries to transgress this eternal and written agreement in anything and will not abide by it the party who does not abide by it will provide to the party who does abide by it on account of penalty on the basis of the formal question being asked and agreed upon and on account of the transgression three ounces of gold which may be demanded with full power of action and after that this written agreement will be valid and operative wherever it is produced, which agreement written in two copies identical in tenor we have executed; and for all that is written above and for the claim on the afore-mentioned penalty we have submitted to each other the possessions of the afore-mentioned monastery and the possessions of the afore-mentioned Phoibammon movable, immovable and live-stock, in every class and kind as a pledge and with the force of a mortgage as though by decree of court; and concerning all that is herein written having asked each other the formal question and being asked by each other the formal question we agreed that these things were so, and so to give, do and keep, to abide for ever and to bring to an end with our own subscription and the one of the customary witnesses in order. (3 crosses).

  (2nd H.) (Cross) The afore-said board of managers of the holy monastery of Apa Sourous through the most highly favoured Kollouchios, monk and manager of the same holy monastery through me, Ioannes, son of Samouelios, presbyter and administrator, the afore-mentioned I executed this agreement and I agree with all that is herein written as afore mentioned and I subscribed with my own hand by order of the afore-said manager. (2 crosses).

  (3rd H.) (Cross) I, the afore-said Aurelius Phoibammon, son of Triadelphos, executed this agreement and I agree with all that is herein written as afore said and having subscribed and read it I delivered it. (Cross).

  (4th H.) (Cross) I, Victor, son Phoibammon, presbyter of the Holy Catholic Church of Apa Moses, bear witness to this agreement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it (Cross) and bear witness also that I have heard from the afore-mentioned manager that he ordered the most discreet Ioannes, presbyter, to execute this agreement.

  (5th H.) (Cross) I, Daueid, son of Andreas, reader of the (6th H.) same (5th H.) Holy Catholic Church bear witness to this agreement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it (Cross) and bear witness also that I heard from the afore-mentioned manager that he ordered Ioannes, the most discreet presbyter to execute this agreement.

  (7th H.) (Cross) I, Ioannes, son of Promaos, reader of the Holy Place of Apa Promaos the martyr, bear witness to this agreement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it and bear witness also that I heard from the afore-mentioned manager that he ordered Ioannes, the most discreet presbyter to execute this agreement.

  (8th H.) I, Aurelius Ioannes, son of Kyriakos, bear witness to this agreement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it.

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  Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
  PMich XIII	Sijpesteijn PJ	1977	667	Pl. XXVI	Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 667, 1977, Pl. XXVI -- L. 4: Psentouses (or is it Psentases?) may be the name of the holding (ktema) leased to Phoibammon (as in the index of P.Mich. XIII, p. 132) rather than the name of a small monastery dependent from the bigger monastery of Apa Sourous. (PH); BL XI, 133 (For David, cf. P. Hamb. IV 265, l. 12);	L. 4: Psentouses (or is it Psentases?) may be the name of the holding (ktema) leased to Phoibammon (as in the index of P.Mich. XIII, p. 132) rather than the name of a small monastery dependent from the bigger monastery of Apa Sourous. (PH); BL XI, 133 (For David, cf. P. Hamb. IV 265, l. 12);

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  Bibliography

  J. Gascou, CE 52 (1977) p. 364; Jean Gascou, Fiscalite et societe en Egypte byzantine, Achcbyz 1008, p. 249, 282, 352

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  Yes

  Conservation Status

  broken off at the top

  Palaeographic Description

  Written across the fibres; 7th hand uses dots to separate one wor from another (as in Latin texts)

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  (Middle of the) 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

  Phoibammon, son of Triadelphos

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Lease of Land

  Content

  Contract by which the landowner Phoibammon, son of Triadelphos, leases a holding from the monastery of Apa Sourous in Aphrodite

  Subject Headings

  Cadastre

  Land Ownership

  Lease

  Priest (Christian)

  Taxation (Land)

  Persons

  Aurelius Phoibammon, son of Triadelphos, ktetor (see last T. Gagos, Archiv 43 [1997] p. 368-373);

  Psentouses <or Psentases?> (see Geographica);

  Tchious (see Geographica);

  (monastery of) apa Sourous (see Calderini, Diz. I, 2, p. 333 etc.);

  Kollouchios (also Koullouchios), monazon kai proestos of the monastery of aba Sourous (see also P.Cair.Masp. III, 67342?);

  Ioannes (John) son of Samouelios (Samuel), presbyteros kai diakonos;

  Ioannes (John), deceased scholasticus and censitor;

  Victor son of Phoibammon, presbyteros of the Hagia Katholike Ekklesia of apa Mousaios (see also P.Michael. 45; P.Lond. V, 1661);

  (Holy Catholic Church of) apa Mousaios (see Calderini, Diz. I, 2, p.339);

  Daueid (David) son of Andreas, anaknostois (anagnostes) of the Hagia Katholike Ekklesia of apa Mousaios;

  Ioannes (John) son of Promaos (Promauos), anagnostes of the Hagios Topos of apa Promaos the martyr (see also P.Cair.Masp. I, 67138-67139?);

  (Holy Place of) apa Promaos (Promauos), martys (see also P.Cair.Masp. III, 67283);

  Aurelius Ioannes (John) son of Kyriakos (see also P.Cair.Masp. I, 67094; 67109)

  Geographica

  ktema (...) legoumenon Psentousetos (see also P.Cair.Masp. I, 67087?); kleros Tchioutos; ktema legomenon ton bapheon; Antaiopolite nome

  Translation

  [- - - we agree] with each other what has been written below. I, the afore-said Phoibammon, son of Triadelphos, landowner, acknowledge to the board of management of the afore-said holy monastery of Apa Sourous through the most highly favoured Kollouchios, monk and manager through you the most discreet Ioannes, son of Samouelios, presbyter and administrator, that I shall give the taxes for the below-mentioned holding of the same holy monastery, called of Psentouses, located in the western plain of the same village in the kleros of Tchious to the west of my own holding called "of the dyers" in corn and the taxes in gold, and the freight-charges and every kind of supply-levy, according to the register in the official book of Ioannes of learned memory, former scholasticus and censitor, or, if such there should be according to any other survey in the Antaipolite nome starting with the crop of the D.V. coming sacred fifteenth indiction, including it, and throughout succeeding time continually for ever. On condition that in addition to the tax-payment for the afore-mentioned holding I shall give you annually twenty artabai of clean corn rendered as rent by your measure and fifty vessels of new sweet wine, each vessel containing six xestai, while you give the vessels, i.e. 20 art. corn and 50 ves. of wine only, the corn at the time of the threshing, the wine at the time of the vintage. If any of us tries to transgress this eternal and written agreement in anything and will not abide by it the party who does not abide by it will provide to the party who does abide by it on account of penalty on the basis of the formal question being asked and agreed upon and on account of the transgression three ounces of gold which may be demanded with full power of action and after that this written agreement will be valid and operative wherever it is produced, which agreement written in two copies identical in tenor we have executed; and for all that is written above and for the claim on the afore-mentioned penalty we have submitted to each other the possessions of the afore-mentioned monastery and the possessions of the afore-mentioned Phoibammon movable, immovable and live-stock, in every class and kind as a pledge and with the force of a mortgage as though by decree of court; and concerning all that is herein written having asked each other the formal question and being asked by each other the formal question we agreed that these things were so, and so to give, do and keep, to abide for ever and to bring to an end with our own subscription and the one of the customary witnesses in order. (3 crosses).

  (2nd H.) (Cross) The afore-said board of managers of the holy monastery of Apa Sourous through the most highly favoured Kollouchios, monk and manager of the same holy monastery through me, Ioannes, son of Samouelios, presbyter and administrator, the afore-mentioned I executed this agreement and I agree with all that is herein written as afore mentioned and I subscribed with my own hand by order of the afore-said manager. (2 crosses).

  (3rd H.) (Cross) I, the afore-said Aurelius Phoibammon, son of Triadelphos, executed this agreement and I agree with all that is herein written as afore said and having subscribed and read it I delivered it. (Cross).

  (4th H.) (Cross) I, Victor, son Phoibammon, presbyter of the Holy Catholic Church of Apa Moses, bear witness to this agreement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it (Cross) and bear witness also that I have heard from the afore-mentioned manager that he ordered the most discreet Ioannes, presbyter, to execute this agreement.

  (5th H.) (Cross) I, Daueid, son of Andreas, reader of the (6th H.) same (5th H.) Holy Catholic Church bear witness to this agreement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it (Cross) and bear witness also that I heard from the afore-mentioned manager that he ordered Ioannes, the most discreet presbyter to execute this agreement.

  (7th H.) (Cross) I, Ioannes, son of Promaos, reader of the Holy Place of Apa Promaos the martyr, bear witness to this agreement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it and bear witness also that I heard from the afore-mentioned manager that he ordered Ioannes, the most discreet presbyter to execute this agreement.

  (8th H.) I, Aurelius Ioannes, son of Kyriakos, bear witness to this agreement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it.

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  PMich XIII	Sijpesteijn PJ	1977	667	Pl. XXVI	Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 667, 1977, Pl. XXVI -- L. 4: Psentouses (or is it Psentases?) may be the name of the holding (ktema) leased to Phoibammon (as in the index of P.Mich. XIII, p. 132) rather than the name of a small monastery dependent from the bigger monastery of Apa Sourous. (PH); BL XI, 133 (For David, cf. P. Hamb. IV 265, l. 12);	L. 4: Psentouses (or is it Psentases?) may be the name of the holding (ktema) leased to Phoibammon (as in the index of P.Mich. XIII, p. 132) rather than the name of a small monastery dependent from the bigger monastery of Apa Sourous. (PH); BL XI, 133 (For David, cf. P. Hamb. IV 265, l. 12);

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  Bibliography

  J. Gascou, CE 52 (1977) p. 364; Jean Gascou, Fiscalite et societe en Egypte byzantine, Achcbyz 1008, p. 249, 282, 352

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  Inventory Number

  P.Mich.inv. 3275

  Processing Number

  1918

  Section/Side

  Recto

  Background and Physical Properties

  Publ./Side

  Recto; Verso is P.Mich. XV, 741

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  14.5 x 17.5 cm

  Items

  1

  Lines

  Col. I - 14;

  col. II - traces of at least 4 lines

  Mounted

  No

  Negative

  Yes

  Conservation Status

  broken (or cut) off on the left, right, and bottom; damaged in the center

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  VIth century A.D.

  Origin

  Unknown

  Provenance

  Unknown

  Acquisition

  May 2, 1925; Acquired from Nahman lot

  Language

  Greek

  Genre

  Documentary

  Author

  Unknown

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Money Account

  Content

  List of payments made to certain persons for various reasons

  Subject Headings

  Account

  Animal

  Army

  Priest (Christian)

  Weapon

  Persons

  Petros, pragmat(--) <pragmateutes? pragmatikos?>of a chorion;

  Ioannes, kollectarios (collectarius);

  (unnamed) stratelates;

  meizon apa Hor;

  Phoibammon;

  Athanasios;

  (unnamed) diakonos;

  (unnamed) hippeus;

  (unnamed) epikeimenos . . .;

  Petros, procurator . . .;

  . . ., pagarches

  Translation

  (Col. I)

  To the lord Petros, pragmat(--) of this estate through Johannes, cashier, to meet the order for payment of the very renowned commander: 18 solidi;

  [On the .]4th: To the meizon apa Hor: 3 solidi minus 18 (keratia);

  To Phoibammon what I received for the breast-plates through the lord Johannes, cashier: 6 keratia;

  To Athanasios for the deacon: 3 solidi minus 18 (keratia);

  [[To the lord Johannes - - - to meet the order for payment of the commander: 18 solidi;]]

  In Choiak: For barley as fodder for the horses of the horseman: 19 keratia;

  To the person set in authority over the [. . .] for Petros, procurator . . .: 14 1/2 solidi;

  For papyrus for the - - - pagarch - - -: [. .] solidi

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  PMich XV	Sijpesteijn PJ	1982	741	Pl. XXVI	Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XV, 741, 1982, Pl. XXVI

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  Bibliography

  Jean Gascou, Fiscalite et societe en Egypte byzantine, Achcbyz 1008, p. 342

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  Inventory Number

  P.Mich.inv. 497

  Processing Number

  2365

  Section/Side

  Recto + Verso

  Background and Physical Properties

  Publ./Side

  Recto (written across the fibres) + Verso

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  29.9 x 23.5 cm

  Items

  1

  Lines

  Recto - 18;

  Verso - 2

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  No

  Conservation Status

  Top left corner broken; the papyrus is torn extensively especially in the middle

  Palaeographic Description

  Recto written across the fibres; a clear, flowing Byzantine hand (Gilliam)

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  VIth century A.D.

  Origin

  Unknown

  Provenance

  Unknown

  Acquisition

  purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920

  Language

  Greek

  Genre

  Documentary

  Author

  Unknown woman

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Private Letter

  Content

  Letter sent apparently by a woman concerning the purchase of wool for herself and for another woman - she has had difficulty finding wool, and she asks for money to pay for it. Note that while the writer uses the feminine with the first person in the body of the text (l. 11), the address indicates that the letter came from a man, Hyakinthos - who could be a brother with whom she was staying

  Subject Headings

  Letter

  Priest (Christian)

  Textile industry

  Persons

  Patrikeia (Patricia);

  Apa Romanos;

  Theodote (sister of Philoxenos and of the writer);

  (unnamed) mother of Philoxenos;

  Philoxenos;

  Hyakinthos, brother of Philoxenos (and of the writer?)

  Geographica

  Terythis

  Translation

  I have taken the liberty of writing to your fraternity for purchase in advance, so that at my request you would purchase in advance a tremis' worth of wool for me and a solidus' worth for the lady Patricia who needs some. I heard her tell Apa Romanos, "Go to Terythis," and I asked her to let me go with him when he goes and she remembered to let me go with Apa Romanos. When he arrived there, we did not find it ready, but they gave us a fixed time for delivery to him on the following day. Since I still need a tremis' worth of wool and they agreed with me to bring me my one tremis' worth also, would your fraternity kindly send me one tremis from there, so that I may not be found wronging the villagers of Terythis. And with God's help, when I come to town I shall render an account to my master. Please receive six melons from the letter carrier without charge. Do not fail to send me a reply. Many greetings to you and obeisance to my brother. Do not be (annoyed?) that I write to you as a brother; the fact is that I write to you as my master. Many greetings to our common sister Theodote, and especially to your lady mother. Send me the little one and take care of . . .

  (Verso)

  Deliver to my sweetest brother Philoxenos . . . From his brother Hyakinthos.

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  ZPE 17	Gignac FT	1975	10-14	SB XIV 11492	Gignac FT, ZPE 17, 10-14, 1975 -- SB XIV 11492

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  Processing Number

  2365

  Section/Side

  Recto + Verso

  Background and Physical Properties

  Publ./Side

  Recto (written across the fibres) + Verso

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  29.9 x 23.5 cm

  Items

  1

  Lines

  Recto - 18;

  Verso - 2

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  No

  Conservation Status

  Top left corner broken; the papyrus is torn extensively especially in the middle

  Palaeographic Description

  Recto written across the fibres; a clear, flowing Byzantine hand (Gilliam)

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  VIth century A.D.

  Origin

  Unknown

  Provenance

  Unknown

  Acquisition

  purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920

  Language

  Greek

  Genre

  Documentary

  Author

  Unknown woman

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Private Letter

  Content

  Letter sent apparently by a woman concerning the purchase of wool for herself and for another woman - she has had difficulty finding wool, and she asks for money to pay for it. Note that while the writer uses the feminine with the first person in the body of the text (l. 11), the address indicates that the letter came from a man, Hyakinthos - who could be a brother with whom she was staying

  Subject Headings

  Letter

  Priest (Christian)

  Textile industry

  Persons

  Patrikeia (Patricia);

  Apa Romanos;

  Theodote (sister of Philoxenos and of the writer);

  (unnamed) mother of Philoxenos;

  Philoxenos;

  Hyakinthos, brother of Philoxenos (and of the writer?)

  Geographica

  Terythis

  Translation

  I have taken the liberty of writing to your fraternity for purchase in advance, so that at my request you would purchase in advance a tremis' worth of wool for me and a solidus' worth for the lady Patricia who needs some. I heard her tell Apa Romanos, "Go to Terythis," and I asked her to let me go with him when he goes and she remembered to let me go with Apa Romanos. When he arrived there, we did not find it ready, but they gave us a fixed time for delivery to him on the following day. Since I still need a tremis' worth of wool and they agreed with me to bring me my one tremis' worth also, would your fraternity kindly send me one tremis from there, so that I may not be found wronging the villagers of Terythis. And with God's help, when I come to town I shall render an account to my master. Please receive six melons from the letter carrier without charge. Do not fail to send me a reply. Many greetings to you and obeisance to my brother. Do not be (annoyed?) that I write to you as a brother; the fact is that I write to you as my master. Many greetings to our common sister Theodote, and especially to your lady mother. Send me the little one and take care of . . .

  (Verso)

  Deliver to my sweetest brother Philoxenos . . . From his brother Hyakinthos.

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  Processing Number

  3015

  Section/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

  Subject Headings

  House Ownership

  Literacy--Egypt--Aphrodito (Extinct city)

  Notary

  Priest (Christian)

  Sale

  Woman

  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)

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  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);

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

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  Notes

  Erroneously published as inv. 6904 in the ed.pr.

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  Section/Side

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  Background and Physical Properties

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  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

  Subject Headings

  House Ownership

  Literacy--Egypt--Aphrodito (Extinct city)

  Notary

  Priest (Christian)

  Sale

  Woman

  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)

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  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);

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  Bibliography

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

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  Notes

  Erroneously published as inv. 6904 in the ed.pr.

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  Inventory Number

  P.Mich.inv. 932

  Processing Number

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  Section/Side

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  Background and Physical Properties

  Publ./Side

  Recto; Verso is blank

  Connections

  + P.Mich. inv. 678; Archive of Kronion son of Apion, nomographos of the grapheion of Tebtynis

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  40.9 x 28.7 cm (total size)

  Items

  1

  Lines

  Demotic, col. I - 8; col. II - 9

  Greek - 1 + 7 + 3

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  Yes

  Conservation Status

  nearly complete, damaged along some folds

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  August 28, 18 A.D.

  Origin

  Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

  Provenance

  Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

  Acquisition

  June 1922; Acquired from Nahman by the British Museum

  Language

  Demotic and Greek

  Genre

  Documentary

  Author

  Chaireis, son of Apollonios

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Sale of Part of a Vacant Lot

  Content

  Demotic contract for the sale of one ninth of a vacant lot, made by Chaireis, son of Apollonios, and his wife to Orseus, son of Patynis; the subscriptions are in Greek, as well as the date which was added at the top of the papyrus and the note giving the descriptions of the contracting parties at the bottom of the sheet

  Subject Headings

  Literacy--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

  Land Ownership

  Priest

  Profession

  Religion

  Sale

  Talei (Extinct city)

  Woman

  Persons

  Tiberius, Emperor;

  Chaireis son of Apollonios and Thenobestis, husband of Taakiaris, brh b3k (. . . & servant) of Souchos;

  Orseus son of Patynis and Tasokis, wy' b3k (farmer & servant) of Souchos;

  Panebtynis = Papnebtynis son of Phasis;

  Kollouthos son of Patynis;

  Taakiaris = Taagoreis, daughter of Papnebtynis and Hera = Heraeis (Herais), wife of Chaireis;

  Diodoros son of Herakles

  Geographica

  Talei, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome; canal of Moeris

  Translation

  (Greek) 4th year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, 5th intercalary day of Mesore. Official copy.

  (Demotic, col. I) Year 4 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, fifth month of summer, (the days of) illumination, (day) 5. The . . . and servant of Souchos, Chaireis, son of Apollonios, his mother being Thenobestis, has said to the farmer and servant of Souchos, Orseus, son of Patynis, his mother being Tasokis, "You have satisfied my heart with the silver [of the price] of my one-ninth share of dry vacant land which is surrounded by a wall (in the) Souchos town of Talei (in) the division of Polemon on the south side [(of) the] canal Moeris (in the) Arsinoite nome. The boundaries of this entire dry vacant lot in which this one-ninth share is located: south, the exit; north, the house and court of Panebtynis, son of Phasis; west, the places of Kollouthos, son of Patynis; east, (the) royal road. - - - this one-ninth share which is(?) written above. No man in the world, nor I likewise, shall be able to exercise authority over it, except you, from this date on. He that shall come to you [on account of it], I will cause him to be far from you on account of it, of necessity, without delay, and I will cause it to be clear for you from every writing, every document, everything in the world. If I fail to [cause] it to be clear, I will give you . . . of necessity, without delay." The woman of endowment, Taakiaris, daughter of Panebtynis, her mother being Hera, is present and says, "Do everything. My heart is [satisfied] concerning it. Call."

  (Demotic, col. II) Year 4 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, fifth month of summer, (the days of) illumination, (day) 5. The . . . and servant of Souchos, Chaireis, son of Apollonios, his mother being Thenobestis, has said to the farmer and servant of [Souchos], Orseus, son of Panebtynis (sic), his [mother] being Tasokis, "I am far from you (in respect of) my one-ninth share of this dry vacant land which is surrounded by a wall (in the) Souchos town of Talei (in) the division of Polemon on the [south] side (of) the canal Moeris (in the) Arsinoite nome. The boundaries of this entire dry vacant lot in which this [one-ninth] share is located: south, the exit; north, the house and court of Panebtynis, son of Phasis; west, the places of Kollouthos, son of Panebtynis (sic); east, the royal road. - - -. No man (in the) world, nor I likewise, [shall be able] to exercise authority over it, except you, from this date on. He that shall come to you on account [of it], I will cause him to be far from you in respect of it, of necessity, without delay, and I will cause it to be clear for you (from) every writing, every document, [everything in the world]. <Thine> is every writing which has been made concerning them."

  (Greek subscriptions) (1st hand) Orseus, son of Patynis, my mother being Tasokis. The aforesaid sale of the ninth part of the vacant lot was made to me as aforesaid. Diodoros, son of Herakles, also wrote for him because he is illiterate.

  (2nd hand) We, Chaireis, son of Apollonios, my mother being Thenobestis, and my mife Taagoreis, daughter of Papnebtynis, her mother being Heraeis, acknowledge that I, Chaireis, have sold, in accordance with the Egyptian contracts, to Orseus, son of Patynis, his mother being Tasokis, the ninth part of a walled vacant lot that belongs to me and of all the appurtenances common and undivided, in Talei of the division of Polemon; the neighbors of the whole lot being on the south the common entrance and exit, on the north the house and court of Papnebtynis, son of Phasis, on the west the lot of Kollouthos, son of Patynis, on the east the royal road. I have received the entire price agreed upon, in full, and I guarantee the sale with every guarantee forever. I, Taagoreis, the aforesaid wife of Chaireis, consent to the sale and agree not to proceed against it forever, and we shall do the other things as aforesaid. I, Chaireis, wrote also for my wife because she is illiterate.

  (Note of a grapheion scribe) Chaireis, 33 years old, with a scar on his left shin.

  Orseus, 40 years old, with a scar on the 3rd finger of his left hand.

  Taakiaris, 30 years old, with a scar on her right forearm.

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  Inventory Number

  P.Mich.inv. 678

  Processing Number

  2936

  Section/Side

  Recto

  Background and Physical Properties

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  Recto; Verso is blank

  Connections

  + P.Mich. inv. 932; Archive of Kronion son of Apion, nomographos of the grapheion of Tebtynis

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  40.9 x 28.7 cm (total size)

  Items

  1

  Lines

  Demotic, col. I - 8; col. II - 9

  Greek - 1 + 7 + 3

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  Yes

  Conservation Status

  nearly complete, damaged along some folds

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  August 28, 18 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

  Demotic and Greek

  Genre

  Documentary

  Author

  Chaireis, son of Apollonios

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Sale of Part of a Vacant Lot

  Content

  Demotic contract for the sale of one ninth of a vacant lot, made by Chaireis, son of Apollonios, and his wife to Orseus, son of Patynis; the subscriptions are in Greek, as well as the date which was added at the top of the papyrus and the note giving the descriptions of the contracting parties at the bottom of the sheet

  Subject Headings

  Literacy--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

  Land Ownership

  Priest

  Profession

  Religion

  Sale

  Talei (Extinct city)

  Woman

  Persons

  Tiberius, Emperor;

  Chaireis son of Apollonios and Thenobestis, husband of Taakiaris, brh b3k (. . . & servant) of Souchos;

  Orseus son of Patynis and Tasokis = Tasoukis, wy' b3k (farmer & servant) of Souchos;

  Panebtynis = Papnebtynis son of Phasis;

  Kollouthos son of Patynis;

  Taakiaris = Taagoreis, daughter of Papnebtynis and Hera = Heraeis (Herais), wife of Chaireis;

  Diodoros son of Herakles

  Geographica

  Talei, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome; canal of Moeris

  Translation

  (Greek) 4th year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, 5th intercalary day of Mesore. Official copy.

  (Demotic, col. I) Year 4 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, fifth month of summer, (the days of) illumination, (day) 5. The . . . and servant of Souchos, Chaireis, son of Apollonios, his mother being Thenobestis, has said to the farmer and servant of Souchos, Orseus, son of Patynis, his mother being Tasokis, "You have satisfied my heart with the silver [of the price] of my one-ninth share of dry vacant land which is surrounded by a wall (in the) Souchos town of Talei (in) the division of Polemon on the south side [(of) the] canal Moeris (in the) Arsinoite nome. The boundaries of this entire dry vacant lot in which this one-ninth share is located: south, the exit; north, the house and court of Panebtynis, son of Phasis; west, the places of Kollouthos, son of Patynis; east, (the) royal road. - - - this one-ninth share which is(?) written above. No man in the world, nor I likewise, shall be able to exercise authority over it, except you, from this date on. He that shall come to you [on account of it], I will cause him to be far from you on account of it, of necessity, without delay, and I will cause it to be clear for you from every writing, every document, everything in the world. If I fail to [cause] it to be clear, I will give you . . . of necessity, without delay." The woman of endowment, Taakiaris, daughter of Panebtynis, her mother being Hera, is present and says, "Do everything. My heart is [satisfied] concerning it. Call."

  (Demotic, col. II) Year 4 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, fifth month of summer, (the days of) illumination, (day) 5. The . . . and servant of Souchos, Chaireis, son of Apollonios, his mother being Thenobestis, has said to the farmer and servant of [Souchos], Orseus, son of Panebtynis (sic), his [mother] being Tasokis, "I am far from you (in respect of) my one-ninth share of this dry vacant land which is surrounded by a wall (in the) Souchos town of Talei (in) the division of Polemon on the [south] side (of) the canal Moeris (in the) Arsinoite nome. The boundaries of this entire dry vacant lot in which this [one-ninth] share is located: south, the exit; north, the house and court of Panebtynis, son of Phasis; west, the places of Kollouthos, son of Panebtynis (sic); east, the royal road. - - -. No man (in the) world, nor I likewise, [shall be able] to exercise authority over it, except you, from this date on. He that shall come to you on account [of it], I will cause him to be far from you in respect of it, of necessity, without delay, and I will cause it to be clear for you (from) every writing, every document, [everything in the world]. <Thine> is every writing which has been made concerning them."

  (Greek subscriptions) (1st hand) Orseus, son of Patynis, my mother being Tasokis. The aforesaid sale of the ninth part of the vacant lot was made to me as aforesaid. Diodoros, son of Herakles, also wrote for him because he is illiterate.

  (2nd hand) We, Chaireis, son of Apollonios, my mother being Thenobestis, and my mife Taagoreis, daughter of Papnebtynis, her mother being Heraeis, acknowledge that I, Chaireis, have sold, in accordance with the Egyptian contracts, to Orseus, son of Patynis, his mother being Tasokis, the ninth part of a walled vacant lot that belongs to me and of all the appurtenances common and undivided, in Talei of the division of Polemon; the neighbors of the whole lot being on the south the common entrance and exit, on the north the house and court of Papnebtynis, son of Phasis, on the west the lot of Kollouthos, son of Patynis, on the east the royal road. I have received the entire price agreed upon, in full, and I guarantee the sale with every guarantee forever. I, Taagoreis, the aforesaid wife of Chaireis, consent to the sale and agree not to proceed against it forever, and we shall do the other things as aforesaid. I, Chaireis, wrote also for my wife because she is illiterate.

  (Note of a grapheion scribe) Chaireis, 33 years old, with a scar on his left shin.

  Orseus, 40 years old, with a scar on the 3rd finger of his left hand.

  Taakiaris, 30 years old, with a scar on her right forearm.

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  Inventory Number

  P.Mich.inv. 625

  Processing Number

  2780

  Section/Side

  Recto

  Background and Physical Properties

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  Recto; Verso is blank

  Connections

  Archive of Kronion son of Apion, nomographos of the grapheion of Tebtynis

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  41.5 x 27.6 cm

  Items

  1

  Lines

  Demotic - 2 columns of 9 lines each;

  Greek - 1 + 6

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  Yes

  Conservation Status

  broken off on the left side; damaged along some folds

  Palaeographic Description

  First Greek hand in a very small cursive hand, with many peculiarities of spelling

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  August 28, 18 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

  Demotic

  Genre

  Documentary

  Author

  Tasouchos, daughter of Sekonopis

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Sale of Part of a House

  Content

  Demotic contract for the sale of a third of a house and courtyard, made by Tasouchos, daughter of Sekonopis, to Patynis, son of Harapis; the subscriptions are in Greek, as well as the date which was added at the top of the papyrus

  Subject Headings

  House ownership

  Literacy--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

  Priest

  Religion

  Sale

  Talei (Extinct city)

  Woman

  Persons

  Tiberius, Emperor;

  Tasouchos daughter of Sekonopis and Soueris;

  Patynis son of Harapis and Tapetesouchos, mdkn & b3k (. . . & servant) of Souchos;

  Horos son of Horos (& unnamed brothers);

  Nechoutes = Nektonnephis son of Sekonopis;

  Aklas = Akousilaos son of Nei[- - -](?);

  Papontos son of Petesouchos (and of Tasouchos?);

  Eutychos(?) son of Eutychos (see H.C. Youtie, ZPE 21 [1976] p. 207-208)

  Geographica

  Talei, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome; canal of Moeris

  Translation

  (Greek) [Year] 4 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, 5th intercalary day of Mesore. Official copy.

  (Demotic, 1st col.) Year 4 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, 5th month of summer, the (days of) illumination, day 5. The woman Tasouchos, daughter of Sekonopis, her mother being Soueris, has said to the . . . and servant of Souchos, Patynis, (son of) Harapis, his mother being Tapetesouchos, "You have caused my heart to be satisfied (with the) silver (of the) price of <my> one-third share which makes one share in three shares of <my> mother's part of a house, together with her part of (the) courtyard, its excess of measure (or) its deficiency of measure, every . . ., which is (in) the Souchos town of Talei, (in) the division of Polemon, on the side of the canal of Moeris, (in the) Arsinoite nome. The boundaries (of) the part of a house in which this one-third share is located: south, the royal road; north, the places of Horos, (son of) Horos, and his brothers; west, (the) house of Nechoutes, son of Sekonopis; east, (the) house of Aklas, son of . . ., - - - this one-third share. No man (in the) world, nor I likewise, shall be able to exercise authority over it except you, from this date on. He that shall come to you <on account of it>, I will cause <him> to be far from you in respect of it, of necessity, without delay, and I will cause [it] to be clear for you from every writing, <every> document.

  (Demotic, 2nd col.) Year 4 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, 5th month of summer, [the (days of) illumination, day 5. The woman] Tasouchos, daughter of Sekonopis, her mother being Soueris, [has said] to the . . . and servant of Souchos, Patynis, [(son of) Harapis], his mother being Tapetesouchos, "I am far from you in respect of this one-third share which makes [one] share [in three shares of] this part of a house of my mother (in the) Souchos town of Talei, [in the division of Polemon], on the south side of the canal of Moeris, (in the) [Arsinoite] nome. The boundaries: south, (the) royal road; north, (the) places of Horos, [son of Horos, and his brothers;] west, the house of <Nechoutes, son of> Sekonopis; east, <the house of> Aklas, [son of - - -]. - - - -. I have received (the) silver of [its] price [from your hand, my heart is] satisfied therewith. No man in the world shall be able to exercise authority [over it, except you, from this date on].

  (Greek subscriptions) (1st hand) I, Tasouchos, daughter of Sekonopis, my mother being Soueris, acknowledge that I have sold, according to the Egyptian contracts, to Patynis, son of Harapis, his mother being Tapetesouchos, the third part, that belongs to me by inheritance from my mother, of a house and court common and undivided and all the appurtenances in Talei in the division of Polemon. The neighbors of the whole part of my maternal inheritance are: on the south the royal road, on the north the lots of Horos, son of Horos, and his brothers, on the west the house of Nektonnephis, son of Sekonopis, on the east the . . . of Akousilaos, son of . . . . And I have received in full the whole price agreed upon, and I guarantee the sale with every guarantee forever, and I shall do everything else as aforesaid. Papontos, son of Petesouchos, . . ., wrote for her because she is illiterate.

  (2nd hand) Patynis, son of Harapis. The sale of the inherited third share of the house and court has been made to me, and I have paid the price as aforesaid. Eutychos(?), son of Eutychos, wrote for him because he is illiterate.

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  Inventory Number

  P.Mich.inv. 6899

  Processing Number

  3009

  Section/Side

  Recto

  Background and Physical Properties

  Publ./Side

  Recto (written across the fibres); Verso is blank

  Connections

  + P.Vat.Aphrod. 17. - Archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito.

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  Main piece: 565 x 29.5 cm; frg. 1; 7 x 5 cm; frg. 2: 14.1 x 5.5 cm; frg. 3: 11.5 x 4.8 cm; P.Vat.Aphrod. 17: 8.6 x 7.3 cm

  Items

  1 main piece (made of 29 sheets, some of which broken in several fragments; now divided in five mountings); 3 loose fragments

  Lines

  Frg. 1: 3;

  frg. 2 + 3: 4;

  P.Vat.Aphrod. 17: 5;

  main piece: 344 (see note)

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  Yes

  Conservation Status

  broken off at the top, which was at the outside when the papyrus was rolled

  Palaeographic Description

  Recto written across the fibres (transversa charta); 28 kollemata are to be found on the main piece; the scribe, Aurelius Abraam, son of Victor, is highly trained. (Sijpesteijn) - 4th hand: slow-writer

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  ca. 527-538 A.D.

  Origin

  Antinoe (Antinoou polis), 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; Aurelius Senouthes, son of Apollos; Aurelius Psaios, son of Mousaios

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Settlement

  Content

  Settlement made out of court by, on the one hand, Apollos (deceased), Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of a certain Ioannes (John), represented by the presbyter Victor, son of Besarion, and by Senouthes, son of Apollos, and.on the other hand, Psaios, son of Mousaios, and his wife Talous, daughter of Herakleios. Several issues were at stake between them: the price of several holdings bought by Ioannes to Psaios and his wife, and its payment; taxes collected by Apollos on Psaios, allegedly wrongfully; and a house pledged by Psaios for the sake of the defending party in connection with a court fee.

  Subject Headings

  Arbitration

  Debt

  House Ownership

  Literacy--Egypt--Aphrodito (Extinct city)

  Imperial Oath

  Inheritance

  Land Ownership

  Pakerk¯e (Extinct city)

  Poverty

  Price

  Priest (Christian)

  Religion (Christian)

  Sale

  Security

  Settlement

  Tax Collection

  Violence

  Woman

  Persons

  Ioannes (John) (deceased);

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

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

  Aurelius Psaios son of Mousaios, husband of Talous (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

  Apollos son of Ioannes (deceased);

  Paulos son of Ioannes;

  Maria daughter of Ioannes;

  Aurelia Talous daughter of Herakleios, wife of Psaios;

  Theodosios, from Pakerke;

  Tausiris (see Geographica);

  Hermaouos (Hermauos) son of Psyros, former presbyteros (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  (unnamed) heirs of Maria daughter of Psaios (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  apa Besarion son of Ioannes, presbyteros (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  (unnamed) heirs of Rachel daughter of Hermaouos;

  Iustinianus, Emperor;

  Aurelius Abraam (Abraham) son of Biktor, former boethos (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

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

  Flavius Victor son of Anouthes;

  Aurelius [- - -], protokometes;

  Aurelius Anouphis son of Iakybios (Iakob; Jacob), entoleus (see Travaux et Mémoires 10 [1987] p. 140);

  Flavius Victor son of Ioannes, exkeptor tes doukikes taxeos (exceptor duciani officii) (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2)

  Geographica

  Pakerke; Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome; ktema kaloumenon Tausireos; Antinoou (polis)

  Translation

  [- - -] at the evaluation worth a quantity of more than thirty-six gold nomismata and that even the thirty-six goldpieces which really had been included as the price in the deed of sale had not been fully paid to him at that time and he produced a security written, as he pretended, by his own hand concluded between him and Ioannes of discreet memory at - - - of eighteen nomismata by the balance of the same village for the remainder of the price of the holdings sold to him, because the produced security contained it thus. Opposing this the most discreet Victor and Senouthes, undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory (said) that, on the one hand, they absolutely rejected as not genuine the produced security for the eighteen nomismata from Psaios saying that it was in no regard true and they asked for that agreement. They also proved that the deed of sale of the holding in the first place had been executed without force and constraint and that the gold of the price, thirty-six nomismata, had been paid in full to him, and especially they produced the deed of sale concluded with the most discreet Ioannes concerning the afore-mentioned holding containing also the witnesses who at that time appended their signatures and bore witness to the payment of the thirty-six nomismata. They also produced another sale of a right to feed off concluded at some other, later time by Psaios with the afore-mentioned Ioannes of discreet memory containing a notice of the before-concluded deed of sale concerning the afore-mentioned holding and validating it and because of this confidently affirming and maintaining that if he had executed before the deed of sale concerning the holding by force and compulsion he would not have afterwards validated it by the later executed deed of sale concerning the right to feed off. Counterpleading against this the people of the prosecuting party acknowledged that the later concluded deed of sale concerning the right tofeeed off had been executed without any force but they said that they did not know how a notice had crept up in it of the earlier sale concerning the holding but that more likely it had by fraud or deceit of the notary at that time be included and they simply asked from the people of the defending party to prove the payment of the thirty-six nomismata. They said that they could not produce other witnesses or other proofs of the payment of the thirty-six nomismata and that proofs concerning that part of the deal could not be legally demanded from them as already a period of twenty years, more or less, had passed since the holding had been sold and the deed of sale concerning it had been drawn up. Pleading against this the people of the prosecuting party proved that they had often used loud complaints in the Holy Church against Ioannes of discreet memory and that they also often had approached the praeses of the province regarding this reason but that after there had been much cajolery by the opponents the discussion about that inquiry had been closed. And after other pleadings had been brought forward by the people of the defending party concerning the execution of the deed of sale concerning the holding and after many things had been said and pleaded in these matters by the people of both parties the people of both parties at last resolved and agreed in accordance with an arbitration and a friendly arrangement and judgment and examination by a common arbiter that the most discreet Victor and Senouthes undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory would swear a bodily oath that they knew for certain that the thirty-six goldpieces had been paid as the price of the afore-mentioned holding to Psaios and his wife Talous at the time of the sale and that in this way fourteen further nomismata each less four carats by the public standard have been paid to Psaios in addition as the price for the sold holding. For after having accurately investigated the rents of the afore-mentioned holding and all the public taxes that rest on it and after an accurate calculation of the remaining true revenues annually from the same holding after subtraction of the pious taxes it was resolved that accurately the holding was worth fifty nomismata and these gold ones. After these matters having been thus resolved and agreed upon by the people of both parties in accordance with the judgment and the arbitration of the common arbiter they jointly chose the most discreet Victor, presbyter, and Senouthes have sworn the bodily oath to Psaios and Talous that they very accurately knew that Ioannes of discreet memory paid them then, at the time of the sale the thirty-six goldpieces incapable of diminution. And now they have paid them the further fourteen goldpieces each less four carats by the public standard.

  Psaios also brought forward against Victor and Senouthes undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory that he sold them two other holdings, of however many arourai they may have been, for a low price at the time of difficulties not by force or by constraint of any sort but because of shortage of food and concerning these matters it has been decided by the common arbiter to keep quiet and not to make an inquiry against them regarding these matters because the alienation of these holdings had been made not by constraint but of his own free will.

  He also brought forward against them that he had been asked for a certain amount of corn and gold by Apollos allegedly for taxes and that although he did not owe anything and as a confirmation for the things having been said by him he produced a security concerning it. Pleading against these Victor and Senouthes said that they did not know anything accurately regarding this part as Apollos of blessed memory had left this earthly life nineteen years ago, more or less, and they have sworn an oath to him that they did not know anything concerning this inquiry.

  Psaios also brought forward against them that because of a court fee he had executed a security for them on a house that belongs to him for the security and freedom of encumbrances of the fourth part of the holding of Theodosios from Pakerke located in the plain of the village of Aphrodite of the same Antaiopolite nome and the persons of both parties resolved and agreed that the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory would have no claim against Psaios concerning the afore-mentioned house.

  And for the removal of every ambiguity between the parties it has been resolved to tear up the receipt for the eighteen nomismata brought by Psaios and also the security concerning the grain and the gold that had been asked forsooth on account of taxes and if anything else remained perhaps out of forgetfulness with him that had not been newly brought forward it has been resolved that that also will have absolutely no value but will be invalid and without authority because that has been decided between both parties so as to remove every inquiry and ambiguity.

  These things having been thus resolved and being acquiesced in by the people of both parties out of necessity they executed this general and comprehensive settlement being destructive to every hindrance and to every seed of a law-suit in accordance with which, on the one hand, Psaios and Talous acknowledge that they have received the remaining fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price of the holding called Tausiris in accordance with what has been resolved between them, the boundaries of the same holding are as follows: in the South the fields of the heirs of Hermaouos, son of Psyros, former presbyter, in the North the fields of the heirs of Maria, daughter of Psaios, in the East the fields of Apa Besarion, son of Ioannes, presbyter, in the West the fields of the heirs of Rachel, daughter of Hermaouos, or whatever the boundaries may be, everywhere and on all sides, and they acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory concerning the afore-mentioned holdings which have been sold to them at different times nor concerning a part thereof nor concerning the crops of the whole fore-going time nor concerning any corporeal or incorporeal right belonging to them, but they also acknowledge that the at different times concluded deeds of sale concerning them are valid and inviolable wherever they are produced. On the other hand, Psaios acknowledges that he will remove at his own risk and that of his property in accordance with the force of the concerning them concluded deeds of sale everyone who will take proceedings against the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory concerning the holdings bought from him or concerning a part thereof. And if Theodosios of Pakerke takes at any time or in any way proceedings against a part of the same holdings making a request or his heirs or someones of his family it has been resolved that the same heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes now undertaking business for them will produce the between them and the afore-mentioned Theodosios concluded agreement which embodies a settlement and which lies with them and of which agreement they newly have handed a copy with their subscriptions and that Psaios thus having taken this settlement and using it and whatever other lawful rights he wants removes the afore-mentioned Theodosios taking proceedings against the same things or against a part thereof or his heirs and thus after the conflicts returns again the warranted copy of the same agreement to the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory. If at any time or in any way they defer to produce this afore-mentioned settlement, the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes who now undertake business for them, when an inquiry is being made by Theodosios, the afore-mentioned, concerning a part of the same holdings it has been resolved that not Psaios will remove the afore-mentioned Theodosios nor his heirs who may oppose for him concerning a part of the same holdings but that the risk of the removal and the clearance of Theodosios will lay with the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or the persons who undertake business for them because they refused to produce the settlement as it has been thus resolved by the parties. And they allow them to partake in them, to enjoy them, to harvest the crops from them, to manage them in whatever proprietary way they may please for all continually succeeding time and they acknowledge that they have annihilated every claim regarding the afore-mentioned holdings or part thereof, suiting them or possibly suiting them. They also acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against them neither concerning the taxes because they have been asked in surplus nor concerning any case whatsoever generally but they also acknowledge that if any other papyrus or receipt concerning this law-case has been left with them that it will be invalid and without force wherever it will be produced because it has been thus resolved between the parties so as to remove and to cut out every inquiry concerning it.

  Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against Psaios concerning the house that belongs to him and that they will not oppose him concerning it at no time or in no way whatsoever but that they will also hand over when they find it the written security which has lately been concluded between him and them or that it, when it stays with them, will be idle and invalid wherever it will be produced. They further acknowledge that they recognize ceaselessly for all the succeeding time all the public taxes which are attached to the holdings that at different times have been sold to Ioannes of discreet memory in accordance with the measurement that has been taken or with any other measurement that is bound to be while the risk of the diminution or of the increase of the public taxes that is bound to be will regard them at their own risk and that of their property and they also acknowledge that Psaios and his wife Talous will be not liable to penalty and will be undisturbed concerning all public taxes regarding the same holdings from the moment they or Ioannes of discreet memory took the same holdings over until now and for all the succeeding time.

  And they acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against them concerning whatsoever other matter generally nor in regard to expenses nor to penalties because this general settlement has been concluded between them for every removal and complete cutting out of the law-suit concerning them and in accordance with this settlement the people of each party acknowledge all to all othrs and each separately that they have no longer any claim against each other concerning whatsoever matter, small or big, written or unwritten, thought of or not thought of, remembered or not remembered, said or unsaid, judged or un judged and that they for the future do not prosecute nor shall prosecute each other either in a lawcourt in the country nor in a lawcourt abroad or outside the lawcourts not they by themselves nor by a representative nor by a man of straw whosoever not they themselves nor their heirs nor their assigns nor their successors not they each other nor the heirs nor the assigns nor the successors of each other because they have settled in all points according to the afore-said written decision and each party has in regard to all these points sworn by the holy and consubstantial Trinity and by the victory and the safety of the gloriously triumphant Lord of the universe Flavius Justinianus the eternal Augustus Imperator that they shall abide by all that has been afore mentioned and that they in no way shall transgress them. And if anyone of them shall dare to transgress it or to do something contrary to this settlement the party which does not abide to it acknowledges to give to the party which abides to it as a fine for the reason of only the transgression a hundred gold nomismata of good weight which may be demanded with full power of action and that thereafter he shall be answerable for the risk of perjury and that nevertheless this settlement shall stay unbroken and unshaken for all the succeeding time, which settlement they have executed for each other for their safety being valid and effective wherever it is produced and having asked each other the formal question and having been asked by each other the formal question they agreed to all that has been written above and to every point that they were so, and so to give, do, keep, and abide by. And for all that is written above and for the claim to the afore-mentioned penalty, if it suits to claim it, they have submitted to each other all their possessions, present and future, movable, immovable and life-stock as a pledge and with the force of a mortgage. (Cross)

  (2nd hand) (Cross) I, Victor, son of Besarion, presbyter, undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement in accordance with all the pledges and agreements it contains with which I agree and of which I approve and I have given in addition to the afore-mentioned Psaios and his wife Talous the fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price of the afore-mentioned holding called Tausiris and I have sworn the divine oath for all that has been written above and for the afore-mentioned fine and I comply with all things as they have been written above and having subscribed I delivered it.

  (3rd hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Senouthes, son of Apollos, undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement in accordance with all the pledges and agreements which it contains with which I agree and of which I approve and I have given in addition to the afore-mentioned Psaios and his wife Talous the fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price for the afore-mentioned holding called Tausiris and I have sworn the divine oath for all that has been written above and for the afore-mentioned fine and I comply with all things as they have been written above and having subscribed I delivered it.

  (4th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Psaios, son of Mousaios, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement as afore said. (Cross)

  (5th hand) I, Aurelia Talous, daughter of Herakleios, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement as afore said. I, Aurelius Abraam, son of Victor, ex-assistant from the same village of Aphrodite have written it at her request because she cannot write.

  (6th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Apollos, son of Dioskoros, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (7th hand) (Cross) . . .

  (8th hand) I, Flavius Victor, son of Anouthos, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (9th hand) I, Aurelius [- - -], protokometes, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (10th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Anouphis, son of Iakobios, from Antinoou (polis), legal representative, bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (11th hand) (Cross) I, Flavius Victor, son of Ioannes, scribe of the ducal staff bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (12th hand) (Cross) Written by me Dios, notary. (3 crosses) (Tachygraphy).

  Information on Publications

  Publications

  Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
  PMich XIII	Sijpesteijn PJ	1977	659	Pl. I-VIII	Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 659, 1977, Pl. I-VIII -- BL VII, 116 (l. 78 [former l. 45]; 349 [former l. 316]); BL IX, 163 (former l. 347 [l. 314]). - See also note; BL XI, 133 (bibliography);	BL VII, 116 (l. 78 [former l. 45]; 349 [former l. 316]); BL IX, 163 (former l. 347 [l. 314]). - See also note; BL XI, 133 (bibliography);

  Information on Publications--Bibliography

  Bibliography

  J. Gascou, CE 52 (1977) p. 361-362; J. Gascou-L.S.B. MacCoull, Travaux et Mémoires 10 (1987) p. 140; Jean Gascou, Fiscalite et societe en Egypte byzantine, Achcbyz 1008, pp. 282, 284, 306, 438

  Information on Publications--Notes

  Notes

  Of the nine fragments published separately in the ed.pr., 6 have been joined, adding 26 lines at the beginning of the main piece; the place of a small fragment bearing the fragmentary line 1 of the ed.pr. proved to be wrong. The position of the new fragments 1-3, as well as that of P.Vat.Aphrod. 17, is still uncertain, but they certainly belong to the top of the roll. To sum up:

  l. 1-5 = P.Vat.Aphrod. 17;

  l. 6-8 = frg. 1 (formerly frg. 6 [l. 356-357]);

  l. 9-12 = frg. 2 + 3 (formerly frg. 4 [l. 349-352] and 8 [l. 360] + 5 [353-355]);

  l. 13-21 = former frg. 1 [l. 320-328] + 9 [l. 361-363] [with l. 328 = l. 1 = l. 339; and l. 321-323 = l. 361-363];

  l. 21-30 = former frg. 3 [l. 339-348] + 7 [l. 359] [with l. 328 = l. 1 = l. 339; l. 344 = l. 359; and l. 348 = l. 329];

  l. 30-39 = former frg. 2 [l. 329-338] [with l. 329 = l. 348; and l. 338 = l. 2];

  l. 39-356 = former l. 2-319. (PH)

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  Inventory Number

  P.Mich.inv. 6899

  Processing Number

  3009

  Section/Side

  Recto

  Background and Physical Properties

  Publ./Side

  Recto (written across the fibres); Verso is blank

  Connections

  + P.Vat.Aphrod. 17. - Archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito.

  Material

  Pap

  Size

  Main piece: 565 x 29.5 cm; frg. 1; 7 x 5 cm; frg. 2: 14.1 x 5.5 cm; frg. 3: 11.5 x 4.8 cm; P.Vat.Aphrod. 17: 8.6 x 7.3 cm

  Items

  1 main piece (made of 29 sheets, some of which broken in several fragments; now divided in five mountings); 3 loose fragments

  Lines

  Frg. 1: 3;

  frg. 2 + 3: 4;

  P.Vat.Aphrod. 17: 5;

  main piece: 344 (see note)

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  Yes

  Conservation Status

  broken off at the top, which was at the outside when the papyrus was rolled

  Palaeographic Description

  Recto written across the fibres (transversa charta); 28 kollemata are to be found on the main piece; the scribe, Aurelius Abraam, son of Victor, is highly trained. (Sijpesteijn) - 4th hand: slow-writer

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  ca. 527-538 A.D.

  Origin

  Antinoe (Antinoou polis), 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; Aurelius Senouthes, son of Apollos; Aurelius Psaios, son of Mousaios

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Settlement

  Content

  Settlement made out of court by, on the one hand, Apollos (deceased), Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of a certain Ioannes (John), represented by the presbyter Victor, son of Besarion, and by Senouthes, son of Apollos, and.on the other hand, Psaios, son of Mousaios, and his wife Talous, daughter of Herakleios. Several issues were at stake between them: the price of several holdings bought by Ioannes to Psaios and his wife, and its payment; taxes collected by Apollos on Psaios, allegedly wrongfully; and a house pledged by Psaios for the sake of the defending party in connection with a court fee.

  Subject Headings

  Arbitration

  Debt

  House Ownership

  Literacy--Egypt--Aphrodito (Extinct city)

  Imperial Oath

  Inheritance

  Land Ownership

  Pakerk¯e (Extinct city)

  Poverty

  Price

  Priest (Christian)

  Religion (Christian)

  Sale

  Security

  Settlement

  Tax Collection

  Violence

  Woman

  Persons

  Ioannes (John) (deceased);

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

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

  Aurelius Psaios son of Mousaios, husband of Talous (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

  Apollos son of Ioannes (deceased);

  Paulos son of Ioannes;

  Maria daughter of Ioannes;

  Aurelia Talous daughter of Herakleios, wife of Psaios;

  Theodosios, from Pakerke;

  Tausiris (see Geographica);

  Hermaouos (Hermauos) son of Psyros, former presbyteros (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  (unnamed) heirs of Maria daughter of Psaios (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  apa Besarion son of Ioannes, presbyteros (see P.Flor. III, 297);

  (unnamed) heirs of Rachel daughter of Hermaouos;

  Iustinianus, Emperor;

  Aurelius Abraam (Abraham) son of Biktor, former boethos (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2);

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

  Flavius Victor son of Anouthes;

  Aurelius [- - -], protokometes;

  Aurelius Anouphis son of Iakybios (Iakob; Jacob), entoleus (see Travaux et Mémoires 10 [1987] p. 140);

  Flavius Victor son of Ioannes, exkeptor tes doukikes taxeos (exceptor duciani officii) (see P.Mich. XIII, p. 2)

  Geographica

  Pakerke; Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome; ktema kaloumenon Tausireos; Antinoou (polis)

  Translation

  [- - -] at the evaluation worth a quantity of more than thirty-six gold nomismata and that even the thirty-six goldpieces which really had been included as the price in the deed of sale had not been fully paid to him at that time and he produced a security written, as he pretended, by his own hand concluded between him and Ioannes of discreet memory at - - - of eighteen nomismata by the balance of the same village for the remainder of the price of the holdings sold to him, because the produced security contained it thus. Opposing this the most discreet Victor and Senouthes, undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory (said) that, on the one hand, they absolutely rejected as not genuine the produced security for the eighteen nomismata from Psaios saying that it was in no regard true and they asked for that agreement. They also proved that the deed of sale of the holding in the first place had been executed without force and constraint and that the gold of the price, thirty-six nomismata, had been paid in full to him, and especially they produced the deed of sale concluded with the most discreet Ioannes concerning the afore-mentioned holding containing also the witnesses who at that time appended their signatures and bore witness to the payment of the thirty-six nomismata. They also produced another sale of a right to feed off concluded at some other, later time by Psaios with the afore-mentioned Ioannes of discreet memory containing a notice of the before-concluded deed of sale concerning the afore-mentioned holding and validating it and because of this confidently affirming and maintaining that if he had executed before the deed of sale concerning the holding by force and compulsion he would not have afterwards validated it by the later executed deed of sale concerning the right to feed off. Counterpleading against this the people of the prosecuting party acknowledged that the later concluded deed of sale concerning the right tofeeed off had been executed without any force but they said that they did not know how a notice had crept up in it of the earlier sale concerning the holding but that more likely it had by fraud or deceit of the notary at that time be included and they simply asked from the people of the defending party to prove the payment of the thirty-six nomismata. They said that they could not produce other witnesses or other proofs of the payment of the thirty-six nomismata and that proofs concerning that part of the deal could not be legally demanded from them as already a period of twenty years, more or less, had passed since the holding had been sold and the deed of sale concerning it had been drawn up. Pleading against this the people of the prosecuting party proved that they had often used loud complaints in the Holy Church against Ioannes of discreet memory and that they also often had approached the praeses of the province regarding this reason but that after there had been much cajolery by the opponents the discussion about that inquiry had been closed. And after other pleadings had been brought forward by the people of the defending party concerning the execution of the deed of sale concerning the holding and after many things had been said and pleaded in these matters by the people of both parties the people of both parties at last resolved and agreed in accordance with an arbitration and a friendly arrangement and judgment and examination by a common arbiter that the most discreet Victor and Senouthes undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory would swear a bodily oath that they knew for certain that the thirty-six goldpieces had been paid as the price of the afore-mentioned holding to Psaios and his wife Talous at the time of the sale and that in this way fourteen further nomismata each less four carats by the public standard have been paid to Psaios in addition as the price for the sold holding. For after having accurately investigated the rents of the afore-mentioned holding and all the public taxes that rest on it and after an accurate calculation of the remaining true revenues annually from the same holding after subtraction of the pious taxes it was resolved that accurately the holding was worth fifty nomismata and these gold ones. After these matters having been thus resolved and agreed upon by the people of both parties in accordance with the judgment and the arbitration of the common arbiter they jointly chose the most discreet Victor, presbyter, and Senouthes have sworn the bodily oath to Psaios and Talous that they very accurately knew that Ioannes of discreet memory paid them then, at the time of the sale the thirty-six goldpieces incapable of diminution. And now they have paid them the further fourteen goldpieces each less four carats by the public standard.

  Psaios also brought forward against Victor and Senouthes undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory that he sold them two other holdings, of however many arourai they may have been, for a low price at the time of difficulties not by force or by constraint of any sort but because of shortage of food and concerning these matters it has been decided by the common arbiter to keep quiet and not to make an inquiry against them regarding these matters because the alienation of these holdings had been made not by constraint but of his own free will.

  He also brought forward against them that he had been asked for a certain amount of corn and gold by Apollos allegedly for taxes and that although he did not owe anything and as a confirmation for the things having been said by him he produced a security concerning it. Pleading against these Victor and Senouthes said that they did not know anything accurately regarding this part as Apollos of blessed memory had left this earthly life nineteen years ago, more or less, and they have sworn an oath to him that they did not know anything concerning this inquiry.

  Psaios also brought forward against them that because of a court fee he had executed a security for them on a house that belongs to him for the security and freedom of encumbrances of the fourth part of the holding of Theodosios from Pakerke located in the plain of the village of Aphrodite of the same Antaiopolite nome and the persons of both parties resolved and agreed that the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory would have no claim against Psaios concerning the afore-mentioned house.

  And for the removal of every ambiguity between the parties it has been resolved to tear up the receipt for the eighteen nomismata brought by Psaios and also the security concerning the grain and the gold that had been asked forsooth on account of taxes and if anything else remained perhaps out of forgetfulness with him that had not been newly brought forward it has been resolved that that also will have absolutely no value but will be invalid and without authority because that has been decided between both parties so as to remove every inquiry and ambiguity.

  These things having been thus resolved and being acquiesced in by the people of both parties out of necessity they executed this general and comprehensive settlement being destructive to every hindrance and to every seed of a law-suit in accordance with which, on the one hand, Psaios and Talous acknowledge that they have received the remaining fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price of the holding called Tausiris in accordance with what has been resolved between them, the boundaries of the same holding are as follows: in the South the fields of the heirs of Hermaouos, son of Psyros, former presbyter, in the North the fields of the heirs of Maria, daughter of Psaios, in the East the fields of Apa Besarion, son of Ioannes, presbyter, in the West the fields of the heirs of Rachel, daughter of Hermaouos, or whatever the boundaries may be, everywhere and on all sides, and they acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory concerning the afore-mentioned holdings which have been sold to them at different times nor concerning a part thereof nor concerning the crops of the whole fore-going time nor concerning any corporeal or incorporeal right belonging to them, but they also acknowledge that the at different times concluded deeds of sale concerning them are valid and inviolable wherever they are produced. On the other hand, Psaios acknowledges that he will remove at his own risk and that of his property in accordance with the force of the concerning them concluded deeds of sale everyone who will take proceedings against the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory concerning the holdings bought from him or concerning a part thereof. And if Theodosios of Pakerke takes at any time or in any way proceedings against a part of the same holdings making a request or his heirs or someones of his family it has been resolved that the same heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes now undertaking business for them will produce the between them and the afore-mentioned Theodosios concluded agreement which embodies a settlement and which lies with them and of which agreement they newly have handed a copy with their subscriptions and that Psaios thus having taken this settlement and using it and whatever other lawful rights he wants removes the afore-mentioned Theodosios taking proceedings against the same things or against a part thereof or his heirs and thus after the conflicts returns again the warranted copy of the same agreement to the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory. If at any time or in any way they defer to produce this afore-mentioned settlement, the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes who now undertake business for them, when an inquiry is being made by Theodosios, the afore-mentioned, concerning a part of the same holdings it has been resolved that not Psaios will remove the afore-mentioned Theodosios nor his heirs who may oppose for him concerning a part of the same holdings but that the risk of the removal and the clearance of Theodosios will lay with the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory or the persons who undertake business for them because they refused to produce the settlement as it has been thus resolved by the parties. And they allow them to partake in them, to enjoy them, to harvest the crops from them, to manage them in whatever proprietary way they may please for all continually succeeding time and they acknowledge that they have annihilated every claim regarding the afore-mentioned holdings or part thereof, suiting them or possibly suiting them. They also acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against them neither concerning the taxes because they have been asked in surplus nor concerning any case whatsoever generally but they also acknowledge that if any other papyrus or receipt concerning this law-case has been left with them that it will be invalid and without force wherever it will be produced because it has been thus resolved between the parties so as to remove and to cut out every inquiry concerning it.

  Victor, the most discreet, and Senouthes undertaking business for the heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against Psaios concerning the house that belongs to him and that they will not oppose him concerning it at no time or in no way whatsoever but that they will also hand over when they find it the written security which has lately been concluded between him and them or that it, when it stays with them, will be idle and invalid wherever it will be produced. They further acknowledge that they recognize ceaselessly for all the succeeding time all the public taxes which are attached to the holdings that at different times have been sold to Ioannes of discreet memory in accordance with the measurement that has been taken or with any other measurement that is bound to be while the risk of the diminution or of the increase of the public taxes that is bound to be will regard them at their own risk and that of their property and they also acknowledge that Psaios and his wife Talous will be not liable to penalty and will be undisturbed concerning all public taxes regarding the same holdings from the moment they or Ioannes of discreet memory took the same holdings over until now and for all the succeeding time.

  And they acknowledge that they have no longer any claim against them concerning whatsoever other matter generally nor in regard to expenses nor to penalties because this general settlement has been concluded between them for every removal and complete cutting out of the law-suit concerning them and in accordance with this settlement the people of each party acknowledge all to all othrs and each separately that they have no longer any claim against each other concerning whatsoever matter, small or big, written or unwritten, thought of or not thought of, remembered or not remembered, said or unsaid, judged or un judged and that they for the future do not prosecute nor shall prosecute each other either in a lawcourt in the country nor in a lawcourt abroad or outside the lawcourts not they by themselves nor by a representative nor by a man of straw whosoever not they themselves nor their heirs nor their assigns nor their successors not they each other nor the heirs nor the assigns nor the successors of each other because they have settled in all points according to the afore-said written decision and each party has in regard to all these points sworn by the holy and consubstantial Trinity and by the victory and the safety of the gloriously triumphant Lord of the universe Flavius Justinianus the eternal Augustus Imperator that they shall abide by all that has been afore mentioned and that they in no way shall transgress them. And if anyone of them shall dare to transgress it or to do something contrary to this settlement the party which does not abide to it acknowledges to give to the party which abides to it as a fine for the reason of only the transgression a hundred gold nomismata of good weight which may be demanded with full power of action and that thereafter he shall be answerable for the risk of perjury and that nevertheless this settlement shall stay unbroken and unshaken for all the succeeding time, which settlement they have executed for each other for their safety being valid and effective wherever it is produced and having asked each other the formal question and having been asked by each other the formal question they agreed to all that has been written above and to every point that they were so, and so to give, do, keep, and abide by. And for all that is written above and for the claim to the afore-mentioned penalty, if it suits to claim it, they have submitted to each other all their possessions, present and future, movable, immovable and life-stock as a pledge and with the force of a mortgage. (Cross)

  (2nd hand) (Cross) I, Victor, son of Besarion, presbyter, undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement in accordance with all the pledges and agreements it contains with which I agree and of which I approve and I have given in addition to the afore-mentioned Psaios and his wife Talous the fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price of the afore-mentioned holding called Tausiris and I have sworn the divine oath for all that has been written above and for the afore-mentioned fine and I comply with all things as they have been written above and having subscribed I delivered it.

  (3rd hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Senouthes, son of Apollos, undertaking business for Apollos and Paulos and Maria, children and heirs of Ioannes of discreet memory, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement in accordance with all the pledges and agreements which it contains with which I agree and of which I approve and I have given in addition to the afore-mentioned Psaios and his wife Talous the fourteen nomismata less fifty-six carats by the public standard for the completion of the price for the afore-mentioned holding called Tausiris and I have sworn the divine oath for all that has been written above and for the afore-mentioned fine and I comply with all things as they have been written above and having subscribed I delivered it.

  (4th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Psaios, son of Mousaios, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement as afore said. (Cross)

  (5th hand) I, Aurelia Talous, daughter of Herakleios, the afore-mentioned, have executed this settlement as afore said. I, Aurelius Abraam, son of Victor, ex-assistant from the same village of Aphrodite have written it at her request because she cannot write.

  (6th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Apollos, son of Dioskoros, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (7th hand) (Cross) . . .

  (8th hand) I, Flavius Victor, son of Anouthos, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (9th hand) I, Aurelius [- - -], protokometes, from the same village of Aphrodite having been found in Antinoe bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (10th hand) (Cross) I, Aurelius Anouphis, son of Iakobios, from Antinoou (polis), legal representative, bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (11th hand) (Cross) I, Flavius Victor, son of Ioannes, scribe of the ducal staff bear witness to the settlement, having heard declarations from the persons executing it, I bear witness also to the payment of the fourteen gold nomismata.

  (12th hand) (Cross) Written by me Dios, notary. (3 crosses) (Tachygraphy).

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  Publications

  Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
  PMich XIII	Sijpesteijn PJ	1977	659	Pl. I-VIII	Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 659, 1977, Pl. I-VIII -- BL VII, 116 (l. 78 [former l. 45]; 349 [former l. 316]); BL IX, 163 (former l. 347 [l. 314]). - See also note; BL XI, 133 (bibliography);	BL VII, 116 (l. 78 [former l. 45]; 349 [former l. 316]); BL IX, 163 (former l. 347 [l. 314]). - See also note; BL XI, 133 (bibliography);

  Information on Publications--Bibliography

  Bibliography

  J. Gascou, CE 52 (1977) p. 361-362; J. Gascou-L.S.B. MacCoull, Travaux et Mémoires 10 (1987) p. 140; Jean Gascou, Fiscalite et societe en Egypte byzantine, Achcbyz 1008, pp. 282, 284, 306, 438

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  Notes

  Of the nine fragments published separately in the ed.pr., 6 have been joined, adding 26 lines at the beginning of the main piece; the place of a small fragment bearing the fragmentary line 1 of the ed.pr. proved to be wrong. The position of the new fragments 1-3, as well as that of P.Vat.Aphrod. 17, is still uncertain, but they certainly belong to the top of the roll. To sum up:

  l. 1-5 = P.Vat.Aphrod. 17;

  l. 6-8 = frg. 1 (formerly frg. 6 [l. 356-357]);

  l. 9-12 = frg. 2 + 3 (formerly frg. 4 [l. 349-352] and 8 [l. 360] + 5 [353-355]);

  l. 13-21 = former frg. 1 [l. 320-328] + 9 [l. 361-363] [with l. 328 = l. 1 = l. 339; and l. 321-323 = l. 361-363];

  l. 21-30 = former frg. 3 [l. 339-348] + 7 [l. 359] [with l. 328 = l. 1 = l. 339; l. 344 = l. 359; and l. 348 = l. 329];

  l. 30-39 = former frg. 2 [l. 329-338] [with l. 329 = l. 348; and l. 338 = l. 2];

  l. 39-356 = former l. 2-319. (PH)

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  Inventory Number

  P.Mich.inv. 729

  Processing Number

  3097

  Section/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

  11.5 x 27 and 11 x 27 cm

  Items

  2

  Lines

  Col. I - 49;

  col. II - 25

  Mounted

  Yes

  Negative

  No

  Conservation Status

  broken in two pieces, both of which are badly worn along all the edges; col. II was the outer or right-hand end of a large roll

  Palaeographic Description

  Hand of Kronion, son of Apion

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  ca. September 46 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

  Kronion son of Apion

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Register of Documents Prepared at the Grapheion

  Content

  Financial register (anagraphe) of contracts drawn up in the record-office (grapheion) of Tebtynis at the end of the 6th year and/or at the beginning of the 7th year of the emperor Claudius (Aug.-Sept. 46 A.D.); the writing fee (grammatikon) charged for the preparation of each item is indicated. All entries are duplicated in P.Mich. II, 128; some also in P.Mich. V, 238.

  Subject Headings

  Administration

  Agriculture

  Apprenticeship

  Building

  Cession

  Debt

  Deposit

  Industry

  Land Ownership

  Lease

  Loan

  Marriage

  Notary

  Nursing

  Paramone (obligation to remain at someone's service)

  Price

  Priest

  Profession

  Religion

  Sale

  Scribe

  Servility

  Slave

  Woman

  Persons

  [Areios] (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 5);

  Onnophris (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 5);

  [Panesis] (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 6);

  Kronion (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 6);

  Herakleides son of Harpaesis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 7);

  Chrates son of Chairemon (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 7);

  Mesoueris (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 8);

  Eirenes (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 8);

  Ischyrion (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 8);

  Papontos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 9);

  Herakles (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 9);

  Ptolemaios (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 10);

  Siliboeis (& unnamed wife) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 10);

  [Heron], husband of Herais (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 11);

  Herais, wife of Heron (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 11);

  Stratos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 12);

  (another?) Heron (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 12);

  [Haryotes] (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 13);

  Orsenouphis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 13);

  (another?) Areios (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 14);

  (another?) Herakles (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 14);

  Marous(?) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 15);

  (another?) Haryotes (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 15);

  (another?) Onnophris (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 16);

  Marsisouchos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 16);

  Thenmarsisouchos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 17);

  Diodoras (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 17);

  Ischyrion (alias A. . .) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 19);

  Labesis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 20);

  Didymos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 21);

  Ptollas (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 21);

  Marepkemis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 22);

  Psyphis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 22);

  Pakebkis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 23);

  (another?) Herakles (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 23);

  Harmiysis (& unnamed wife) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 24);

  Eutychos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 24);

  Pyrrhichos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 25);

  (another?) Papontos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 25);

  (another?) Heron (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 26);

  Polykrates (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 26);

  Thenerakleia (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 27);

  Diodora (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. II, l. 27);

  Kronion son of Soterichos (see P.Mich. II, p.222);

  Posis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 1);

  Herakles son of Didymos (see also P.Mich. II, 123, Recto, col. VI, l. 6; 128, col. III, l. 1);

  Heras (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 2);

  (another?) Didymos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 2);

  Orseus (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 3);

  Apollonios (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 3);

  Haryotes (presbyteros, son of Herodion), husband of Taorsenouphis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 4; and P.Mich. V, 323; 339);

  Taorsenouphis (daughter of Aphrodisios), wife of Haryotes (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 4; and P.Mich. V, 339);

  (another?) Papontos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 4);

  Konon (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 4);

  Horos;

  (another?) Labesis;

  Peteeus;

  Kolephis (& unnamed wife);

  (another?) Heras (& unnamed wife) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 9);

  (another?) Orsenouphis, halopoles (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 10);

  (unnamed) halopolai;

  (another?) Herakles (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 11);

  Paas (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 11);

  Herakles son of Aphrodisios (see P.Mich. II, p. 218; V, p. 381; and add P.Mich. II, 123, Recto, col. XIX, l. 8);

  Sigeris (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 14);

  (another?) Kronion (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 14);

  (another?) Didymos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 15);

  (another?) Onnophris (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 15);

  Apynchis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 16);

  Maron son of Bryon (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 16);

  Apollonarion (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 17);

  Galates (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 17);

  (another?) Galates (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 18; V, 238, l. 10);

  Tesenouphis (& unnamed wife) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 18; V, 238, l. 10);

  Thenmenches (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 19);

  Tasoykis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 19);

  Petesouchos [son of Apoulas] (see also P.Mich. II, 123, Recto, col. II, l. 32; 128, col. III, l. 20);

  Papnebtynis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 21);

  Apynchis son of Pseoueis (see also P.Mich. II, 123, Recto, col. XVIII, l. 20; 128, col. III, l. 21);

  (another?) Didymos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 22);

  Stotoetis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 22);

  (another?) Didymos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 23);

  Thaubas (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 23);

  Seras (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 23);

  Phasos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 24);

  (another?) Kronion (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 24);

  Marepsemis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 25);

  Eutychos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 25);

  Hatres (& unnamed wife) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 26; V, 238, l. 7);

  Didyme (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 26; V, 238, l. 7);

  (another?) Kronion (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 27);

  Assythmis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 27);

  Taarmiousis (Taarmiysis) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 28-29);

  (another?) Herakleides (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 28);

  Aphrodite (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 29);

  [Herodes Baroei] (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 30);

  (another?) Herakleides (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 30);

  [Orsenouphis son of Belphis] (& unnamed son & daughter-in-law) (see also P.Mich. II, p. 224; V, p. 389);

  Chrates (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 32);

  Theoklas (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 32);

  (another?) [Haryotes] (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 34; 238, l. 5);

  [Dios] (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 34; 238, l. 5);

  (another?) [Papontos] (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 35; V, 238, l. 6);

  Pastoous (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 35; V, 238, l. 6);

  (another?) [Peteeus (& unnamed brother)] (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 36-37; 42; 44; V, 238, l. 14-15; 24);

  Didymos son of Telesis (see P.Mich. II, p. 215; P.Mich. V, 238, l. 14);

  Alexas (Alexandros) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 37; V, 238, l. 15);

  (another?) [Kronion] (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 38);

  (another?) Herakles (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 38);

  Hermas (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 39; V, 238, l. 21);

  (another?) Ptolemes (Ptolemaios) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 39; V, 238, l. 21);

  [Horonsis] (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 40; P.Mich. V, 238, l. 23 has Orsenouphis, as well as P.Mich. inv. 3501, l. 16);

  Haryotes son of Paches (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 40; V, 238, l. 23);

  [Polykrates] (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 41);

  Panoueites (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 41);

  Mieus (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 42; V, 238, l. 24);

  (another?) Herakles (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 43; V, 238, l. 25);

  Harmaeis (& unnamed mother) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 43; V, 238, l. 11 and 25);

  Tapontos (& unnamed husband) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 45; V, 238, l. 27-28);

  (another?) Kronion (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 45; V, 238, l. 27-28);

  Taonnophris (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 46);

  (another?) Stotoetis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 46);

  (another?) Apynchis (& unnamed wife) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 1);

  Petesouchos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 1);

  (another?) Orseus (& unnamed wife) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 2; V, 238, l. 46);

  Marreus (Mareus) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 2; V, 238, l. 46);

  (another?) Herakles (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 3);

  Didymos Chaouonis (Chaouanis) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 3);

  Thaubastis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 4; V, 238, l. 12-13);

  Nestesis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 4; V, 238, l. 12-13);

  (another?) Maron (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 5);

  (another?) Papontos (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 5);

  (another?) Heras (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 6);

  Patron Peeioulis (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 6);

  Psosneus (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 7);

  (another?) Kronion (= Kronion, son of Apion, grapheion official?)

  (another?) Maron (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 8; V, 238, l. 29);

  (another?) Orseus (& unnamed wife) (see also P.Mich. II, 128, col. Ib, l. 8; V, 238, l. 29)

  Translation

  (Col. I)

  [Lease] of 4 arourai, (made) by [Areios] to Onnophris. (Fee:) 8 obols.

  [Lease] of 5 arourai, (made) by [Panesis] to Kronion. (Fee:) 10 obols.

  [(Received) through Herakleides], son of Harpaesis, and Chrates, son of Chairemon: [. .] drachmai.

  [Agreement] of . . ., (made) by Mesoueris to Eirenes and Ischyrion. [- - -].

  [Loan] of reeds and [- - -], (made) by Papontos to Herakles. [(Fee:) 7 obols.]

  [Loan] of 140 silver drachmai, (made) by Ptolemaios to Siliboeis and his wife. [(Fee:) 5 obols].

  [Agreement] of cession of 23 3/4 arourai for [100(?)] drachmai, (made) by [Heron] to his wife Herais. [(Fee:) 2 drachmai.]

  [Acknowledgment] of receipt of 120 silver drachmai, (made) by Stratos to Heron. (Fee:) . . drachmai.

  [Lease] of 7 1/2 arourai, (made) by [Haryotes] to Orsenouphis and another. (Fee:) 4 drachmai.

  [Agreement] of a lease, by way of payment in advance, of pasture lands, (made) by Areios to Herakles. (Fee:) 14 obols.

  [Acknowledgment] of deposit of 84 silver drachmai, (made) by Marous(?) to Haryotes. (Fee:) 24 obols.

  [Lease] of a granary of the god, (made) by Onnophris and another to Marsisouchos. (Fee:) 4 drachmai.

  Agreement for nursing (a slave child) and for a loan [of 100 silver drachmai], (made) by Thenmarsisouchos to Diodoras. [(Fee:) 8 drachmai.]

  Undertaking to cultivate (some land), (made) by Ischyrion to Labesis. (Fee:) 8 obols.

  Lease of a palm-grove, for a rent [of 360 drachmai], (made) by Didymos to Ptollas and another. [(Fee:) 4 drachmai.]

  Lease of 6 arourai, (made) by Marepkemis to Psyphis and another. (Fee:) 7 obols.

  Lease of 7 arourai of fodder, (made) by Pakebkis to Herakles. Through Lysas the village [secretary].

  Acknowledgment of deposit of 400 drachmai, (made) by Harmiysis and his wife to Eutychos. (Fee:) 4 drachmai, which he owes.

  Agreement to furnish lodging for the sum of 56 drachmai, (made) by Pyrrhichos to Papontos. (Fee:) [22] obols.

  Lease of 6 1/4 arourai, (made) by Heron to Polykrates. (Fee:) [21] obols.

  Agreement of confirmation, (made) by Thenerakleia to Diodora. (Fee:) 20 obols.

  (Received) through Kronion, son of Soterichos, what he owed: . . obols.

  Lease of (. .) arourai of fodder, (made) by Posis to Herakles, son of Didymos. [- - -].

  Acknowledgment of receipt of wages, (made) by Heras to Didymos. (Fee:) [. .] obols.

  Acknowledgment of deposit of 100 silver drachmai and . . artabai of wheat, (made) by Orseus to Apollonios. (Fee:) . . obols.

  Acknowledgment of an additional (marriage) gift of 100 drachmai, (made) by Haryotes to Taorsenouphis. (Fee:) 4 drachmai.

  Agreement of sale of 2 looms, (made) by Papontos to Konon. (Fee:) [. .] obols.

  Agreement of deposit of 36 drachmai, (made) by Horos to Labesis. (Fee:) [. .] obols.

  Loan of 124 drachmai, (made) by Peteeus to Kolephis and his wife. [- - -].

  Agreement (of - - -) of 6 artabai of wheat, (made) by Heras and his wife to Herakles, son of Didymos. (Fee:) [. .] obols.

  Payment, (made) by Orsenouphis and other dealers in salt: 20 obols.

  Loan of 168 silver drachmai, (made) by Herakles to Paas. (Fee:) 6 silver drachmai.

  (Received) through Herakles, son of Aphrodisios, for the cession of Epeiph 23: 2 drachmai.

  Acknowledgment of deposit of 60 silver drachmai, (made) by Sigeris to Kronion. (Fee:) [10] obols.

  Lease of 2 arourai of palm-grove for a rental of 225 drachmai, (made) by Didymos to Onnophris. (Fee:) [4] silver [drachmai].

  Acknowledgment of mortgage for 240 silver drachmai, (made) by Apynchis and others to Maron, son of Bryon. [(Fee:) 8 drachmai].

  Agreement of marriage for a dowry of 4,900 drachmai, (made) by Apollonarion to Galates. (Fee:) [4] silver [drachmai].

  Lease of a palm-grove for a rental of 440 drachmai, (made) by Galates to Tesenouphis and his wife. [(Fee:) 8 drachmai.]

  Agreement of obligation to remain in service (paramone) for the sum of [44] silver [drachmai], (made) by Thenmenches to Tasoykis. [(Fee:) 19 obols].

  Memorandum (concerning) a contract of apprenticeship, (made) by Petesouchos, [son of Apoulas. (Fee:) 6 obols.]

  [Agreement] of sale [of a loom], (made) by Papnebtynis to Apynchis, son of Pseoueis. [(Fee:) 3 obols].

  Lease [of . . arourai] of palm-grove [for a rental of 285 silver drachmai], (made) by Didymos to Stotoetis. [(Fee:) 4 drachmai].

  Loan [of 248 silver drachmai], (made) by Didymos to Thaubas and Seras. [(Fee:) 4 drachmai 8 obols].

  [Acknowledgment] of a deposit [of 60 silver drachmai], (made) by Phasos to Kronion. [(Fee:) 15 obols].

  [Lease of 6 arourai of fodder], (made) by Marepsemis and others to Eutychos and [another. They owe the scribe's fee].

  [Acknowledgment of receipt of 420 silver drachmai], (made) by Hatres and his wife to Didyme. [She owes the scribe's fee].

  [Agreement to furnish lodging for the sum of 60 silver drachmai], (made) by Kronion to Assythmis. [(Fee:) 14 obols].

  [Agreement of lease, by way of payment in advance, of 2 arourai], (made) by Taarmiysis to Herakleides. [(Fee:) 4 drachmai].

  [Agreement of lease, by way of payment in advance, of 2 arourai], (made) by the same (Taarmiysis) to Aphrodite. [(Fee:) 4 drachmai].

  (Col. II)

  [Agreement] of lease, by way of payment in advance, of 7 arourai, [(made) by Herodes Baroei to] Herakleides. (Fee:) 8 drachmai.

  [Contract] for a dowry of 300 drachmai, [(made) by Orsenouphis, son of Belphis] to his son's wife. (Fee:) 12 drachmai.

  [Contract] (for a dowry) of 1,020 silver drachmai, (made) by Chrates to Theoklas. (Fee:) 12 drachmai.

  [Lease] of 7 arourai, [(made) by Haryotes to Dios] and another. (Fee:) 4 drachmai.

  [Acknowledgment] of receipt, [(made) by Papontos and] another to Pastoous. (Fee:) 8 obols.

  [Lease] of 6 arourai of fodder, [(made) by Peteeus and his] brother to Didymos, son of Telesis. (Fee:) 6 obols, which he owes.

  [Lease] of 1 1/2 aroura, [(made) by Peteeus and another] to Alexas. (Fee:) 6 obols.

  [Acknowledgment] of deposit of 440 silver drachmai, [(made) by Kronion to] Herakles. (Fee:) 4 silver drachmai.

  [Agreement] of obligation to remain in service (paramone) for the sum of 48 silver drachmai, [(made) by Hermas to] Ptolemes. (Fee:) 2 drachmai.

  [Agreement] (of - - -) of 40 silver drachmai and 3 artabai of barley, (made) by [Horonsis] to Haryotes, son of Paches. (Fee:) 2 drachmai 1 obol.

  [Lease] of 2 arourai, (made) by [Polykrates] to Panoueites. (Fee:) 10 obols.

  [Lease] of 3 1/2 arourai of green fodder, (made) by [Peteeus] and his brother to Mieus. (Fee:) 5 obols.

  [Loan] of 100 silver drachmai, (made) by Herakles to Harmaeis and his mother. (Fee:) 4 drachmai, which Herakles owes.

  [Agreement] for nursing (a slave child) and for a loan, (made) by Tapontos and her husband to Kronion. (Fee:) 4 drachmai 7 obols.

  [Agreement], (made) by Taonnophris to Stotoetis, for nursing (a slave child) and for a loan of 12 drachmai and 2 keramia of wine, for a total of 16 silver drachmai. (Fee:) 4 obols. For this (loan), a loom has been given as security.

  [Agreement] to furnish lodging for the sum of 64 drachmai, (made) by Apynchis and his wife to Petesouchos. (Fee:) 15 obols.

  [Agreement] to furnish lodging for the sum of 20 silver drachmai, (made) by Orseus and his wife to Mareus. (Fee:) 8 obols.

  [Lease] of 1 1/2 aroura, (made) by Herakles to Didymos Chaouanis. He owes the scribe's fee.

  [Agreement] for furnishing lodging and for a loan of 200 drachmai, (made) by Thaubastis to Nestesis; and, for the summer, 1 artaba of barley.

  [Lease] of 11 arourai, (made) by Maron to Papontos and another. (Fee:) 6 silver drachmai.

  [Lease] of 4 arourai of green fodder, (made) by Heras to Patron Peeioulis. Gratis.

  [Lease] of 3 arourai of fodder and 3 arourai of green fodder, for a total of 6 arourai, (made) by Psosneus to Kronion. Gratis.

  [Loan] of 56 silver drachmai, (made) by Maron to Orseus and his wife. (Fee:) 14 obols.

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  Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
  PMich V	Boak AER	1944	240	Boak AER, PMich V, 240, 1944 -- BL IX, 160 (l. 26). - L. 37: read 4,900 instead of 4,086 or 4,080 (as in P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 17). (PH)	BL IX, 160 (l. 26). - L. 37: read 4,900 instead of 4,086 or 4,080 (as in P.Mich. II, 128, col. III, l. 17). (PH)

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  Bibliography

  Tomasz Derda, ARSINOITHS NOMOS. Administration of the Fayum under Roman Rule, Warsaw 2006, p. 225

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  P.Mich.inv. 1269

  Processing Number

  1352

  Section/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

  13.5 x 29 cm

  Items

  1

  Lines

  50

  Mounted

  No

  Negative

  Yes

  Conservation Status

  nearly complete and in good condition

  Palaeographic Description

  The 1st hand is a neatly written upright cursive; the second is much less well formed and is irregular. (Boak)

  Status

  published

  Library

  Ann Arbor

  Contents

  Date

  March 27-April 25, 37 A.D.

  Origin

  Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

  Provenance

  Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

  Acquisition

  bought from Nahman; reached the University of Michigan in 1923

  Language

  Greek

  Demotic

  Genre

  Documentary

  Author

  Marepsemis son of Marepsemis and 8 other high-ranking priests of the temple of Kronos at Tebtynis

  Type of Text/Title of Work

  Petition to a Strategos

  Content

  Petition addressed to Asklepiades, strategos of the division of Polemon, by nine men who represent the tribes of priests in the service of the god Kronos at Tebtynis, to complain of difficulties encountered by them in dealing with former lessees of a granary belonging to the temple

  Subject Headings

  Agriculture

  Building

  Literacy--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

  Justice

  Lease

  Priest

  Religion

  Taxation (Land)

  Woman

  Persons

  Asklepiades, strategos of the Polemonos meris;

  Marepsemis son of Marepsemis, (hiereus), hegoumenos (of the priests of Kronos);

  Marsisouchos son of Sigeris (Sikeris), (hiereus), hegoumenos (of the priests of Kronos);

  Pachis son of Marepsemis, (hiereus), hegoumenos (of the priests of Kronos);

  Petosiris son of Pakebis (Pakebkis), (hiereus), grammateus (of the priests of Kronos);

  Panesis (Panisis) son of Pakebkis, hiereus;

  Marepkamis (Marepkemis, Marepakamis) son of Marepkamis, hiereus;

  Marepsemis son of Marepsemis (alias) Pesouris, hiereus;

  Onnophris son of Psyphis (Psoiphis), hiereus (see also P.Mich. V, 323a; P.Tebt. II, 383);

  Marsisouchos son of Marsisouchos (= Marres son of Marres), hiereus;

  Thenapynchis (deceased), thesaurophylax, mother of Apynchis;

  Apynchis, son of Harmiysis and Thenapynchis, husband of Thaesis;

  Thaesis, wife of Apynchis;

  (unnamed) hiereis of Kronos;

  Tiberius, Emperor;

  (unnamed) epistates of Tebtynis

  Geographica

  Polemonos meris; Tebtynis

  Translation

  To Asklepiades, strategos of the division of Polemon, from Marepsemis, son of Marepsemis, and Marsisouchos, son of Sigeris, and Pachis, son of Marepsemis, all three presidents, and Petosiris, son of Pakebkis, secretary, and Panesis, son of Pakebkis, and Marepkamis, son of Marepkamis, and Marepsemis, son of Marepsemis (also called) Pesouris, and Onnophris, son of Psyphis, and Marsisouchos, son of Marsisouchos, all nine presidents and secretary and (representative) of the tribes of the same priests of Tebtynis of Kronos the mighty god, great and greatest. Whereas for a long time past right up to the present year and day we have been renting to the deceased granary guard Thenapynchis and her living son Apynchis, son of Harmiysis, and his wife Thaesis, in the aforesaid village village of Tebtynis of Kronos the mighty god, great and greatest, the granary in use in which there are a tower and another tower adjacent to it and a gateway, and whereas when we and our other priests took back from the aforesaid Apynchis and his wife Thaesis the granary in which were some of the equipment and doors which he had received, we found in the present month Pharmouthi, of the present 23rd year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, that the doors which belonged there had been carried off by them and that the granary was not plastered as they received it, so that we have been prevented entirely from being able to bring into the said granary the wheat and barley which we measure out to the treasury as public taxes, therefore we beg you to write to the epistates of Tebtynis to come to the aforesaid granary and view the conditions and send the accused to you for the coming assizes.

  (2nd hand) We, Onnophris, son of Psyphis, and Marepsemis, son of Marepsemis, and Marsisouchos, son of Sigeris, and Pachis, son of Marepsemis, and Petosiris, son of Pakebkis, and Panesis, son of Pakebkis, and Marepakamis, and Marepsemis, son of Pesouris, and the other priests, have deposited the foregoing petition. I, Onnophris, have written for them as they don't know (Greek) letters.

  (Demotic) (3rd hand) The writer (of this subscription) is Panesis, son of Pakebkis, who says: I have submitted this petition, which Onnophris(?), son of . . ., has drawn up concerning the granary.

  (4th hand) Marepkamis, son of Marepkamis.

  (5th hand) Marepsemis(?), son of Marepsemis, says: I have submitted this petition.

  (6th hand) Marres, son of the like-named, has written: I have submitted (this petition).

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  Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
  PMich V	Boak AER	1944	226 (Greek text only)	Boak AER, PMich V, 226 (Greek text only), 1944 -- BL VII, 110 (lines 23, 34, 39, 42). - In an unpublished, handwritten note, H.C. Youtie remarked that the nine priests are not 8 hegoumenoi and 1 grammateus, but 3 hegoumenoi, 1 grammateus, and 5 priests, each representing one of the 5 phylai. (PH)	BL VII, 110 (lines 23, 34, 39, 42). - In an unpublished, handwritten note, H.C. Youtie remarked that the nine priests are not 8 hegoumenoi and 1 grammateus, but 3 hegoumenoi, 1 grammateus, and 5 priests, each representing one of the 5 phylai. (PH)
  Scriptiunculae I	HC Youtie	1981	310-312	HC Youtie, Scriptiunculae I, 310-312, 1981

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  H.C. Youtie, ZPE 21 (1976) p. 196-198 (includes a translation of the Demotic text by K.-Th. Zauzich); Tomasz Derda, ARSINOITHS NOMOS. Administration of the Fayum under Roman Rule, Warsaw 2006, p. 89

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