P.Mich.inv. 1279 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 1279
- Processing Number
- 1364
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image 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
- 20.5 x 28.5 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1 + 14
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- damaged along the folds
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 46 A.D. (January 25, 46 A.D.[?])
- Origin
- Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- Acquired from Nahman; reached the University in 1923
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Thenmenches and Thaesis, daughters of Akes
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Release of Property
- Content
- Subscription to a contract by which two sisters, Thenmenches and Thaesis, in return for a money consideration, relinquish their claims to certain property given as a marriage portion to a third sister, Soeris, by their mother, who is also named Soeris (this contract is perhaps recorded in the grapheion register P.Mich. II, 123, recto, col. XI, l. 30)
- Subject Headings
- Family--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
- Home ownership--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
- Literacy--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
- Inheritance and succession--EgyptzTebtunis (Extinct city)
- Marriage--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
- Guardian and ward--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
- Women--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Claudius, Emperor;
- Thenmenches daughter of Akes and Soeris (see also P.Mich. II, 123, recto, col. XI, l. 30?);
- Thaesis daughter of Akes and Soeris, wife of Onnophris;
- Horos son of Harmiysis and Thenmenches, guardian of Thenmenches, (& unnamed wife) (see also P.Mich. V, 244?);
- Onnophris son of Nepheros, husband and guardian of Thaesis (see also P.Mich. V, 244?);
- Soeris daughter of Akes and Soeris, wife of Eutychos (see also P.Mich. II, 123, recto, col. VI, l. 15; col. XI, l. 30?);
- Soeris daughter of Patynis, mother of Thenmenches, Thaesis and Soeris (deceased);
- Eutychos son of Soterichos, husband and guardian of Soeris daughter of Akes (see also P.Mich. II, 123, recto, col. VI, l. 15; col. XI, l. 17; V, 246?);
- Dionysios son of Maron (see P.Mich. V, p. 187)
- Geographica
- Tebtynis
- Translation
- [6th] year of Claudius. Official copy. The 30th of . . .
- We, Thenmenches and Thaesis, the two daughters of Akes, with the guardians of each of us, that of Thenmenches being her son Horos, son of Harmiysis, and that of Thaesis being her husband Onnophris, son of Nepheros, acknowledge that we have given a release to Soeris, our aforesaid sister on both our mother's and our father's side, in regard to all the building sites of Soeris in Tebtynis and the household utensils and furnishings and the sums owed her, which were given as dowry by the mother of the three of us, Soeris, daughter of Patynis,when she was still alive, in the alimentary contract which you made with your husband Eutychos, son of Soterichos, in the present sixth year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator on the sixth of the month Neos Sebastos, through this same record office; and we agree that neither we nor our representatives shall proceed against the aforesaid Soeris or her representatives in regard to these mattersor in the matter of any other transaction whatever, written or unwritten, since we have been persuaded by Soeris by a consideration in money; the aforesaid husband of Soeris, who is her appointed guardian, Eutychos, son of Soterichos, suffering no loss in respect to what the aforesaid Horos, together with his wife, owes him on account of the agreement of deposit, as aforesaid. Dionysios, son of Maron, wrote for them because they are illiterate.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1364
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich V Husselman EM 1944 352 Husselman EM, PMich V, 352, 1944
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 46
- Year End
- 46
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4608 x 3480
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 1364
- Link to this Item
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