P.Mich.inv. 1415 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 1415

Processing Number

1426

Section/Side

Recto

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto; Verso is blank

Connections

+ P. NYU 21; duplicate of P.NYU 20

Material

Pap

Size

P.Mich.inv. 1415: 18.5 x 19 cm; P.NYU 21: 6.3 x 14.5, 4.6 x 5.8; 6 x 24 cm

Items

1 + 3

Lines

22

Mounted

No

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

Broken off on the left side; damaged at the top and along some folds

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

(Probably) January/March 302 A.D.

Origin

Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Provenance

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition

January 1924; Acquired with Nahman lot

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Aurelius Atisios, son of Hatres

Type of Text/Title of Work

Cession of Land

Content

Fragmentary copy of a contract by which Aurelius Atisios, son of Hatres, cedes to Aurelius Heron, son of Apon, a quantity of private and royal land; as no money payment is made in exchange, Atisios must have been willing to give away properties overburdened by taxation (the royal land was perhaps a forced imposition), provided only that the future taxes be paid by the new owner

Subject Headings

Land titles--Registration and transfer--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Literacy--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Land tenure--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Veterans--Rome.

Real property--Taxation--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)

Persons

Diocletianus, Emperor;

Maximianus, Emperor;

Constantius, Caesar;

Maximianus Caesar;

Aurelius Atisios (Atisis) son of Hatrs and Thallous;

Aurelius Heron son of Apon and [- - -];

Sabinus, censitor;

Ptollas;

Tauemera;

Paesios (Paesis);

Aurelius Ammonios son of Theoninos, veteranus

Geographica

Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoiton polis), Arsinoite nome; Karanis, 4th and 5th toparchies, Herakleidou meris; topos Talinarty legomenos; topos Tkainpao legomenos

Translation

The 18th year of the Emperor Caesar Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletian and the 17th year of the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximian Germanici Maximi Sarmatici Maximi Persici Maximi Britannici Maximi Carpici Maximi Pii Felices Augusti and the 10th year of our lords Flavius Valerius Constantius and Galerius Valerius Maximan Persici Maximi Britannici Maximi Carpici Maximi the most noble Caesars, in the month . . . (day), in Ptolemais Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome. Aurelius Atisios, son of Hatres and Thallous, from the village of Karanis, about sixty years old, with a scar on the lower part of the . . . knee, acknowledges to Aurelius Heron, son of Apon and . . ., from the same village, about . . . years old, with a scar on the right(?) . . ., that he, Atisios, has ceded to Heron from the present for all time the following property which belongs to him and which was registered by him in the declaration made in the office of the censitor Sabinus in year . . ., on Thoth 22, and which is located in the horiodeiktia of the above-mentioned village of Karanis in the 4th and 5th toparchy of the division of Herakleides: in the first section, in the hamlet called Talinarty, three and nine sixty-fourths arourai of arable private land, and five-sixteenths of an aroura of uninundated land; and in the 5th section, in the locality called Tkainpao, two arourai of private land sown in year 14-13-6.

And Atisios has further surrendered to Heron from the auspiciously approaching year 19-18-11 forever the cultivation of the following property which the party of the first part, Atisios, registered in the same declaration: in the above-mentioned 1st section, in the hamlet called Talinarty, six and seven-eighths arourai of arable royal land; and other property, viz. seven-sixteenths of an aroura of royal land sown in year 13-12-5, and nine-sixteenths of an aroura of uninundated land, the measurements in arourai of the entire area being whatever they are, more or less, with all their existing boundaries, conduits, sluices, entrances and all other rights of use in accordance with the custom from the past to the present.

Of this property the adjoining areas, as contained in the above-mentioned declaration, are as follows: of the private and royal land in the 1st section, which is all in one block, on the east the estate of Ptollas, on the west a canal, beyond which there is waste land entirely unowned; of the arourai of the 5th section, on the east the estate of Tauemera, on the west the estate of Paesios.

(The transaction is) without price, cession money or any payment whatever, in return for all the public taxes on the property.

The party of the first part, Atisios, will guarantee with full guarantee to Heron and his representatives the terms of the cession of the above-mentioned arourai, which he will deliver unencumbered, unpledged, unmortgaged and free from all taxes - the public dues of all kinds, i.e. taxes in wheat, barley, and money, the annonae, all other impositions, and the imperial delegatio, from the past up to the month Mesore of the present year 18-17-10, devolving upon the party of the first part, Atisios, because the crop standing in the fields in the present year belongs to Atisios himself - and from private debts and every claim forever.

From now on Heron will exercise ownership and control over all the arourai that have been ceded and surrendered to him, and from the next auspiciously approaching year he will appropriate their produce and will have the authority to administer and manage the property and to . . . the royal land, in whatever way he chooses, and he will pay to the imperial treasury starting in the month Thoth of the auspiciously approaching year all the public dues, i.e. the annonai, all impositions, and the imperial delegatio for all time.

Neither Atisios himself nor anyone else on his behalf shall proceed against this property in any way, but, if anyone does proceed against it in any way whatsoever . . ., he (Atisios) will himself immediately remove him at his own expense and will further pay double the costs, apart from the fact that the aforesaid terms also will remain valid. Neither the transferor Atisios nor indeed the transferee Heron has the authority to alter . . . or to violate in any way any of the provisions written herein, inasmuch as they have entered upon this cession and surrender voluntarily and of their own free will. That this transaction has been correctly and accurately done, they have, in response to the formal question, so declared.

(2nd hand) I, Aurelius Atisios, son of Hatres, acknowledge that I have ceded the following property which belongs to me in the horiodeiktia of the village of Karanis: five and twenty-nine sixty-fourths arourai, in all, of private land; and have further surrendered seven and seven-eighths arourai, in all, of royal land, of which the adjoining areas are mentioned above, in return for all the public taxes on the property including the imperial delegatio. I guarantee and will abide by all the terms and will not violate them, as stated above. In response to the formal question, I have so declared. I, Aurelius . . ., wrote for him as he is illiterate.

(3rd hand) I, Aurelius Heron, son of Apon, have received the cession and surrender of all the aforesaid arourai and will pay the public dues on them, including the imperial delegatio, starting in the month Thoth of the auspiciously approaching year 19-18-11 for all time, as stated above. In response to the formal question, I have so declared. I, Aurelius Ammonios, son of Theoninos, veteran, wrote for him as he is illiterate.

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1426

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
HSCP 74	Browne GM	1970	321-331	SB XII 10880	Browne GM, HSCP 74, 321-331, 1970 -- SB XII 10880 -- BL XI, 133 (l. 10);	BL XI, 133 (l. 10);
PMich XII	Browne GM	1975	636	Browne GM, PMich XII, 636, 1975

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

Tomasz Derda, ARSINOITHS NOMOS. Administration of the Fayum under Roman Rule, Warsaw 2006, p. 125

Availability/System Requirements

Institution

sc

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

302

Year End

302

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

3480 x 4608

File Size

2 MB

Record

1426

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