P.Mich.inv. 1972 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 1972
- Processing Number
- 1561
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Connections
- -
- Material
- pap
- Size
- 17.6 x 6.8 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-31
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- Papyrus is regularly cut at the left where 1 cm has been left free. Two vertical folds are still visible.
- Palaeographic Description
- Cursive typical of the Roman period.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- November 15, 249
- Origin
- Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt (?)
- Provenance
- Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt (?)
- Acquisition
- November 1924
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Aurelius Heras, son of Diogas
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Contract
- Content
- Labour contact to build a boat
- Persons
- Caesar Gaeus Messius Quintus Decius Trajanus Pius Felix Augustus, emperor,
- Aurelius Heras, son of Diogas
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- Verso: "- - - and I shall give each shipbuilder monthly one artaba of wheat and - - - each one monthly x choichix (-kes) of - - - each one will be given monthly one kotyle of good olive oil and - - -period one keramion and I acknowledge that I have received as an arrha x drachmas which will be spent in part for daily wages. Starting from the present month Hathyr of the present 1st year I shall start to work for you until a discharge of obligations in full is reached and I shall hand over the boat in acceptable and good condition without any technical blame while you have the right of execution upon me and upon all my possessions. The lease is normative and in answer to the formal question I gave my consent. Year 1 of Imperator Caesar Gaeus Messius Quintus Decius Trajanus Pius Felix Augustus, Hathyr 19. I, Aurelius Heras, son of Diogas, have taken upon me to build the afore mentioned boat and I have received as an arrha x drachmas and I shall provide pay each month and I shall hand the boat over as written above and in answer to the formal questions I gave my consent. - - -"
- Recto: Too fragmentary for translation.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1561
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections ZPE 111 Sijpesteijn PJ 1996 159-62 Plate 1. Sijpesteijn PJ, ZPE 111, 159-62, 1996, Plate 1.
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 249
- Year End
- 249
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3107 x 4769
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 1561
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1561/1972r.tif
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- Manifest
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"P.Mich.inv. 1972; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1561/1972r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.