P.Mich.inv. 3639 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3639
- Processing Number
- 2025
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Connections
- Zenon archive
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 34 x 27.5 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Verso, Text (a), col. I - 3; col. II - 4; col. III - 4;
- Verso, Text (b) - 6;
- Recto, Text (c) - 8;
- Recto, Text (d), col. I - 10; col. II - 9;
- Recto, Text (e) - 6
- See also note for the disposition of the texts and for the other figures on Recto and Verso.
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- broken off on the left and right sides; damaged
- Palaeographic Description
- Text (a) in the careful hand of Zenon; text (d) in small cursive writing (Edgar)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 256/255 B.C. (or later) (text a); 245/244 B.C. (or later) (text e); 244/243 B.C. (or later) (text d)
- Origin
- Unknown place, Egypt
- Provenance
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Acquisition
- May 2, 1925; Acquired from Nahman lot.
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- (Zenon) (text a); unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Various Accounts
- Content
- The papyrus was used and re-used to write several accounts:
- (a) account of sales of wines;
- (b) concerns also wine;
- (c) account of monthly receipts of money;
- (d) account of money given to Onnophris, one of Zenon's native farmers, and expended by him on various objects
- (e) another account, of much later date.
- Finally, parts both of recto and of verso are covered with figures representing sums of money up to several thousand drachmai.
- Subject Headings
- Agriculture--Accounting--Egypt.
- Drachma.
- Measures and weights, Ancient.
- Farm produce--Marketing--Egypt.
- Wine and wine making--Egypt.
- Persons
- Timagenes (see Pros.Ptol. IV 11785);
- Aristokrates (see Pros.Ptol. IV 11251);
- Damas;
- Antigones (Antigenes? Antigonos?), Ioudaios;
- Phiminis, son of Phen- - -;
- Onnophris (see Pros.Ptol. I 522 + add.; IV 10335);
- Laommaasos (Laommaasos)(?) son of Teous (gen.) (see Pros.Ptol. V 13943);
- Anosis (son of Thotorches) (see Pros.Ptol. I 786 + add.; V 12978 = VIII 514b; Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 287)
- Geographica
- Phys; Ioudaios
- Translation
- (Text a)
- [- - -] and 9 keramia of wine of the 29th year, from the vineyard of Timagenes, 65 drachmai. Of these [[sour wine]].
- They bring wine of the 30th year, of the (wineyard) to be sold through Aristokrates in Phys, 75 1/2 choes of wine at 4 obols each, 49 drachmai 4 obols 1/2. Of these, on Mesore 25, - - - 21 drachmai 4 obols, the rest being 28 drachmai 1/2 obol.
- (Text b)
- . . . and also another keramion of the wine (obtained) by Aristokrates.
- [Paid to] us by Damas, for what he still owed . . .
- Antigones the Jew, 28 keramia
- Phiminis, son of Phen- - -, . . keramia
- (Text c)
- [- - -]
- Phamenoth: 109 drachmai 3 obols
- Pharmouthi: 74 drachmai
- Pachons: 38 drachmai
- Pauni: 33 drachmai 5 obols
- Epeiph 14 drachmai
- (equal) 326 (drachmai) 2 obols. Of these, 292 drachmai:
- remain 34 drachmai 2 obols. Of these, 9 drachmai 4 obols:
- remain [[25]] 24 drachmai 4 obols.
- (In margin of l. 7-8) 28 drachmai 5 obols: remains . . .
- (Text d)
- (Col. I)
- To Onnophris: 307 (drachmai) 1/2 obol. Of these:
- for the labour-costs of the sesame-land: 50 (drachmai)
- for the reaping: 100 (drachmai); of these 29 (drachmai) 3/4 obols, remain 70 (drachmai) 5 1/4 obols
- for the purchase of oxen 20 (drachmai), = 170 (drachmai)
- and for 104 1/2 (artabai) of wheat which he owes - - - of the 3rd year, 174 1/6 (artabai) at 2 1/4 obols each, 66 (drachmai) 1 1/4 obol
- (equal) 236 (drachmai) 1 1/4 obol.
- Remain 70 drachmai 5 1/4 obols. (Plus) 29 (drachmai) 3/4 obol, (equals) 100 (drachmai).
- (Col. II)
- For the reaping, 100 (drachmai), and for the labour-costs of the sesame-land, 50 (drachmai);
- for the purchase of oxen, 20 (drachmai);
- equal 170 (drachmai);
- and the price of the grain, 66 (drachmai) 1 1/4 obol,
- equal 236 (drachmai) 1 1/4 obol.
- Remaining: 83 (drachmai) 4 3/4 obols.
- (Text e)
- Epeiph 22. Laommasos(?) son of Teous, for the breakage of jars he made from the wine brought down to . . . in the 2nd year . . . of copper 10 drachmai 2 1/2 obols
- Laommaasos(?) son of Teous . . . the wine of the produces of year 2, given to him for payment 3 1/4 obols of copper.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2025
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich I Edgar CC 1931 30 Edgar CC, PMich I, 30, 1931 CPJ I Fuks A-Tcherikover V 1957 8 (text (b) only) Fuks A-Tcherikover V, CPJ I, 8 (text (b) only), 1957 -- Text b, line 6: read Phiminis rather than Philinis; text d, line 7: read 3 (etous), not 33 (etous); some minor changes. (PH) Text b, line 6: read Phiminis rather than Philinis; text d, line 7: read 3 (etous), not 33 (etous); some minor changes. (PH)
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- H. Cadell-G. Le Rider, Prix du blé et numéraire dans l'Égypte lagide de 305 à 173 (Bruxelles, 1997) p. 51
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- -256
- Year End
- -244
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3480 x 4608
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 2025
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