P.Mich.inv. 2833

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Record Details

Inventory Number
P.Mich.inv. 2833
Processing Number
1653
Section/Side
A; Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side
Recto; Verso: account (unpublished)
Material
Pap
Size
14 x 20 cm
Items
1
Lines
12
Mounted
No
Negative
Yes
Conservation Status
broken off at the top and on the left side; heavily mutilated
Status
published
Library
Cairo

Contents

Date
August 7, 176[?] A.D.
Origin
perhaps Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Provenance
Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Acquisition
24-S5000-courtyard south of S5000
Language
Greek
Genre
Documentary
Author
Unknown creditor
Type of Text/Title of Work
Address Concerning the Registration of a Loan of Money
Content
Copy of an address sent by a creditor probably to the archidikastes, concerning the registration of a loan drawn up between him and the soldier(?) Marcus Sempronius Serenus; a copy of the loan contract is included
Persons
[- - -, archidikates(?)];
[- - -];
Marcus Sempronius Serenus (see also P.Mich. IV/2, p. 186);
[- - -], stratiotes speires trites Itouraion (= Marcus Sempronius Serenus?);
[- - -] (hekatontarchos);
[Marcus Aurelius(?)], Emperor;
(unnamed) strategos of the Herakleidou meris
Geographica
Itouraioi (Ityraioi); Herakleidou meris of the Arsinoite nome
Translation
. . . soldier of the third Ituraean cohort of the century of [- - -, greeting. I acknowledge that I have received] from you a loan of two hundred fifty silver drachmai in capital, total [250 silver drachmai, at the interest of a drachme per mina every month which] I shall also pay you back in the month [- - -] of the present sixteenth year [of Aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord. If I do not pay them back] within the appointed term you shall have the right of execution upon me and [all my] property [of every kind as if in consequence of a court decision. This cheirograph is legally binding as] though publicly registered and written without erasure or insertion. [Year 16 of aurelius Antoninus Caesar the lord, month, day].
Since I desire this contract to be publicly registered, I request that, on receiving it from the person sent [by me, . . ., with his attestation] that it is the autograph of the said Marcus Sempronius Serenus, it also having my [subscription] regarding [its registration, you register it together with this memorandum at] both Libraries and write to the strategos of the Herakleides division of the Arsinoite nome to serve a copy of this declaration on Sempronius [Serenus, if he is alive, if not, on his adult heirs whose names] will be learned on the spot, as is proper, so that he may know about the publication [and may return to me the 250 drachmai as is proper. Year 16 of Aurelius Antoninus] Caesar the lord, on the 14th of the month Kaisareios. I have signed on Mesore 14.

Information on Publications

Publications
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections
Archiv 41 Sijpesteijn PJ 1995 178-182 Pl. 27 SB XXII, 15325 Sijpesteijn PJ, Archiv 41, 178-182, 1995, Pl. 27 -- SB XXII, 15325 -- BL XI, 236; BL XI, 236;

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Cataloger
PH
Year Begin
176
Year End
176

Technical Details

Record
1653
Link to this Item
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