P.Corn. inv. II 26 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Corn. inv. II 26
- Processing Number
- 1248
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 20.2 x 8.8 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 23 lines
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- The papyrus is broken off at the bottom, but only the lower margin has been lost. At the points where the papyrus was folded it is damaged and a few letters are lost. On the back there are five patches (small long strips) of papyrus for keeeping the three vertical strips of the papyrus together. Ancient or modern repairs?
- Palaeographic Description
- Upper and left margin c. 1.2 cm.Between the many body of the contract and the dating formula at the end there is a space of c. 3.5 cm left blank
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 14 April, A.D. 206
- Origin
- Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Unknown
- Acquisition
- In 1922 through the agency of the British Museum for Cornell University; handed over to the University of Michigan in 1972.
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Artemisia
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Contract with castanet dancers
- Content
- A cheirographon contact (letter-contract type). Artemisia hires Isidora and two other castanet dancers to perform at a festival at her house at Philadelpheia. She will be paid 36 drachmai per day, plus 4 artabai of barley and 24 pairs of bread loaves.
- Subject Headings
- Music, Greek and Roman.
- Dancers--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Musicians’ contracts--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Festivals--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Castanets--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Isidora;
- Artemisia, from the village Philadelpheia
- Geographica
- Philadelphia, village of the the Herakleidou meris of the Arsinoite nome
- Translation
- To Isidora, castanet dancer, from Artemisia of the village of Philadelphia. I wish to engage you with two other castanet dancers to perform at the festival at my house for six days beginning with the 24th of the month Payni according to the old calendar, you to receive as pay 36 dtacmai for each day, and for the entire period 4 artabai of barley and 20 pairs of bread loaves; and whatsoever garments or gold ornaments you may bring down, we will guard these safely; and we will furnish you with two donkeys when you come down to us and a like number when you go back to the city.
- Year 14 of Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius, Augusti, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar Augustus, Payni 16.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1248
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections JEA 10 Westermann WL 1924 134-144 SB III 6945 Westermann WL, JEA 10, 134-144, 1924 -- SB III 6945 -- BL II.2, 47 on line 5 BL II.2, 47 on line 5 PCorn Westermann WL - Kraemer CJ 1926 9 Pl p57 Westermann WL - Kraemer CJ, PCorn, 9, 1926, Pl p57
Information on Publications--Further Republications
- Further Republications
- Select Papyri I, 20;
- Papyrological Primer 52;
- Vandoni, Feste, 20;
- Hengstl, Griechische papyri aus Aegypten, 94
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Hengstl J, Arbeitsverhaeltnisse, 45
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- NL
- Year Begin
- 206
- Year End
- 206
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4129 x 5787
- File Size
- 3 MB
- Record
- 1248
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1248/c2_26r.tif
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"P.Corn. inv. II 26; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1248/c2_26r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.