P.Mich.inv. 2915 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number
P.Mich.inv. 2915
Processing Number
1684
Section/Side
Recto
Image Side
Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side
Recto; Verso bears traces of a circular red stamp
Material
Pap
Size
22.5 X 11.5 cm
Items
2
Lines
63
Mounted
No
Negative
Yes
Conservation Status
Recto: broken off on the left side and (slightly) at the bottom; damaged along the folds; surface badly rubbed in many places, with much of the writing almost effaced.
Verso: too little of the circular red stamp remains for the design or the inscription to be apparent.
Palaeographic Description
See electronic version of PMich IX, 554
Status
published
Library
Ann Arbor

Contents

Date
81 - 94 A.D.
Origin
Arsinoiton polis, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Provenance
Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Acquisition
24-5006E2-A
Language
Greek
Genre
Documentary
Author
Gaius Minucius Aquila and his sisters Minucia Gemella and Minucia Thermoutharion
Type of Text/Title of Work
Division of Inherited Property
Content
Contract dividing between Minucius Aquila, on one side, and his two sisters, on the other side, the properties they inherited from their father and mother
Persons
Domitianus, Emperor;
Gaius Minucius Aquila;
Minucia Gemella;
Minucia Thermoutharion;
Gaius Sempronius Priscus, apolusimos apo strateias, guardian of Minucia Gemella;
Lucius Vibius Crispinus, apolusimos apo strateias, guardian of Minucia Thermoutharion;
Harpaesis son of Limnaios, former owner;
Peteeus son of Petheus;
Heras son of Dioskoros;
Tetoseiris daughter of Heras
Geographica
Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoiton polis), Arsinoite nome; Kerkesoucha; Psenarpsenesis; Karanis
Translation
[The . . . year of the] Emperor Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, the 19th of the month Daisios, [19th] of Pharmouthi, [in Ptolemais] Euergetis in the Arsinoite nome. Gaius Minucius Aquila, [about . . . years old, with a scar] on his forehead, and his sisters by the same father and mother, Minucia Gemella, about [. . .] years old, [with a scar] on her right [. . .], and Minucia Thermoutharion, about twenty years old, with a scar beneath the shin of her right leg, [with their guardians, that of Minucia] Gemella being Gaius Sempronius Priscus, discharged from military service with the legion, about fifty [. . .] years old, with a scar on the top of his left foot, and that of Minucia Thermoutharion being Lucius Vibius Crispinus, discharged [from military service with the legion, about] forty-nine [years] old, with a scar on his left forearm, acknowledge to each other that they have divided among themselves in accordance with this agreement [forever] the property that belongs to them by inheritance from their father and mother. The property inherited from their father consists of six arourai [of privately held land] near Kerkesoucha, . . . and one aroura of a newly planted olive grove near Psenarpsenesis in the catoecic category, and two and a quarter arourai [of a catoecic allotment] near [Karanis] with one and one-eighth arourai of the village impost, and two houses in Karanis [with a granary and] a dovecote between. And the property inherited from the mother consists of [three arourai] of a catoecic allotment near the same village of Kerkesoucha and the half share of a house [in Karanis]. In accordance with the division which they have made with each other by mutual consent, [Gaius] Minucius Aquila has [received as the share] falling to his lot from all the property aforesaid the [six arourai] of privately owned [land near Kerkesoucha], and the one aroura of olive grove near Psenarpsenesis, and [of the two houses] in the village of Karanis the house and courtyard that lie on the west and that formerly belonged to Harpaesis, son of Limnaios, and the aforesaid granary [on the north] and the dovecote, of which the adjacent areas on the south and west are the royal roads, on the north the house of [Peteeus, son of Petheus], and on the east the other house which has been received as their share by Gemella and Thermoutharion; and [. . .] Minucia Gemella and Minucia Thermoutharion [have received] as their allotted share of [all of the aforesaid property], to be held by them in common and equally, the catoecic allotment near Karanis, consisting of two and a quarter arourai, and one and an eighth [arourai of the village impost], and the three arourai of a catoecic allotment near Kerkesoucha, and [the half share of the] house in the village of Karanis, and the other house and courtyard in the same village [on the east side with] another building site on the north, surrounded by a mud wall, called a granary, and [. . . in the] dovecote which Aquila has received, a one-story room in which there is a mill and a mortar, [the adjacent areas being on the south] a royal [road], on the north the house of the aforesaid Peteeus, son of Petheus, on the west [the house and] dovecote which [Aquila] received as his share, on the east the vacant lots of Heras, son of Dioskoros, and Tetosiris, daughter of Heras, . . .
(15 lines, too fragmentary to be translated)
. . . let the one who does not abide by the contract pay the one who abides by it the damages and the expenses twofold, and a fine of one thousand [silver] drachmai, and an equal sum to the state treasury, while the aforesaid terms remain valid.
(2nd hand) [I, Gaius Minucius] Aquila, have reported the division and [have received] as my allotted share from the property inherited from my father and mother the six arourai of privatey held land [near] Kerkesoucha and the one aroura of olive grove near Psenarpsenesis and the house and court on the west side, in Karanis, [formerly belonging] to Harpaesis, and the granary to the north, and the [dovecote]. And I shall pay whatever public and private debts the aforesaid(?) now manifestly owes, and after one year I shall pay [to my sister] Thermoutharion the four hundred silver drachmai which I owe her, without interest, as aforesaid.
(3rd hand) We, Minucia Gemella and Minucia [Thermoutharion], each with her guardian, Gemella with me, Gaius [Sempronius Priscus], and Thermoutharion with Lucius Vibius Crispinus, [have joined in reporting] the division and have received as our share, to be held in common, the two and a quarter arourai near [Karanis] with the village impost, and the house and courtyard on the east in [Karanis], [. . .] and the granary, and the room, and the [three arourai] near Kerkesoucha, and the half share of the house as aforesaid. [I, . . .], wrote for Gemella who writes slowly and for Thermoutharion who is illiterate.
(4th hand) I, Gemella, [ordered him to write].
(5th hand) . . . Pharmouthi 19(?). Registered(?0 . . .

Information on Publications

Publications
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections
PMich IX Husselman EM 1971 554 Husselman EM, PMich IX, 554, 1971 -- Line 15: read Limnaiou instead of Panaiou (PH) Line 15: read Limnaiou instead of Panaiou (PH)

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Institution
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Cataloging

Cataloger
PH
Year Begin
81
Year End
94

Technical Details

Image Size
2320 x 3072
File Size
948 KB
Record
1684
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