P.Mich.inv. 3761 / Recto

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Inventory Number: P.Mich.inv. 3761
Processing Number: 2095
Section/Side: Recto
Image Side: Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side: Recto; Verso contains remains of two columns of 2-line entries.
Connections: -
Material: Pap
Size: 25.2 x 20 cm.
Items: 1
Lines: 1-26
Mounted: No
Negative: No
Conservation Status: A light-brown papyrus partly regularly cut off at the left and bottom. 1.5 cm. from the left edge is a kollesis.
Palaeographic Description: Written in an upright and detached hand. Each entry on the verso is preceded by a number (65/66 and 76/77/78 are still readable) which one of the numbers of the klerouchies at Karanis. At the left is a free margin of 2 cm. and at the bottom one of 5 cm. Since l. 1 has been written by the same hand which wrote the other lines and since no personal subscription seems to have been added at the bottom, we are in all probability dealing with a copy.
Status: published
Library: Ann Arbor

Date: Between 148 A. D. - 161 A.D.
Origin: Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt (?)
Acquisition: purchased by Prof. Boak in 1925 (report submitted by H.I. Bell, dated May 2, 1925); described as coming from Behneseh (Oxyrhynchus)
Language: Greek
Genre: Documentary; land cession
Author: Unknown
Type of Text/Title of Work: Land cession
Content: Cession of two plots of catoechic land: one of 4 arouras and one of 3 arouras.
Subject Headings: Administration; land tenure; land transfer
Persons: Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, emperor,; Sochotes,; Sarapias,; Apion,; Aphrodisios,; Ptollarion,; Dionysios,; Petesouchos
Geographica: - - - division of the Arsinoite nome
Translation: "- - - of the - - - division of the Arsinoite nome. Year - - - of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius on the -th of the month - - in - - of the - - - division of the Arsinoite nome. N. N., son of N. N., grandson of Sochotes, aged about 54 years - - - and N. N., sonof N. N., grandson of N. N., aged about - - years - - - both priests (?) of - -, the twice great god and of the associate gods of the fifth phyle acknowledge to Sarapias, daughter of N. N., granddaughter of N. N., aged about - - years - - - with as guardian for transaction N. N. son of N. N., grandson of N. N., aged about 28 years with a chopped off finger, that they have ceded to her for conveyance from now on for all time three arouras of a catoechic holding formerly in the possession of N. N., son of N. N., in the neighbourhood of the village - - in the - - division of the Arsinoite nome which belong to them and which were bought in accordance with a deed of sale drawn up through the record-office in the metropolis in Phaophi of year 12 and - - aroura(s) of land assigned to the village and four arouras of a catoechic holding in - - formerly in the possession of N. N., daughter of N. N., granddaughter of Apion but now in the possession of - - the twice great god and all the associate gods (acquired ?) in Pharmouthi of the -th with their existing boundaries and entrances and exits and watering-places and drains and all the other rights, of which the neighbours are, as, according to the acknowledging party, the cessions encompass: of the three arouras and the assigned land: in the South - - -, in the North - - - in the middle being an irrigation canal, in the west the holding formerly of Aphrodisios, in the East the holding of Ptollarion in the middle being a watering-place and of the four arouras: in the South a canal, in the North dry land on which there are date-palms fit for being fructuated in the middle being - - -, in the West - - - field, in the East the holding of Dionysios in the middle being the canal through which the ceded arouras are irrigated - - -. Enforceable shall also be the transactions registered in the list of katalochismoi. The acknowledging party has received from Sarapias the sum fixed for the cession of the arouras ceded as above-written: Petesouchos thousand sixhundred silver drachmas and N. N. - - silver drachmas through the money-changers bank of N. N. near the colonnade of Athena; and the acknowledging party themselves, Petesouchos and N. N., and their cessionaries shall guarantee with full security for Sarapias and her cessionaries the ceded arouras in accordance with the above-described boundaries and neighbours, which they shall transfer neither encumbered, nor liable to distraint, nor mortgaged, and free of all public duties, artaba-taxes, naubia, numeration-taxes, assessments, debt-entries, fines - - -, land assigned to the village and Petesouchos (shall) also (guarantee it) free of all land assigned to the village from the former times up to the past -th year of Antoninus CAesar the lord included, as well as from private obligations and every claim whenever. Nobody shall hinder Sarapias and her cessionaries to have possession of the in total seven and - - - arouras ceded to her as above-written - - -and to gain the produce of them - - - and to use the other uses according to the custom from the beginning up till now and as is made clear by (the) public documents.The acknowledging party shall neither prosecute nor accuse nor dispute with a view to the afore-mentioned agreement. If they transgress in any way they shall pay to Sarapias as a fine the cession sum which they received from her with a surplus of 50 %, twice the amount of the damages and the expenses, and to the Treasury the same sum. Nevertheless both the afore-mentioned agreement and the transactions registered in the list of katalochismoi shall remain enforceable forever."
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Information on Publications

Publications: Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections

Tyche 1 Sijpesteijn PJ 1986 180-3 SB XVIII, 13764 Sijpesteijn PJ, Tyche 1, 180-3, 1986 -- SB XVIII, 13764 -- BL IX, 305 (l. 9); BL X, 222 (l. 5) BL IX, 305 (l. 9); BL X, 222 (l. 5)

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography: D. Hagedorn, ZPE 86 (1991) p. 248; Th. Kruse, ZPE 124 (1999) p. 157-190, esp. p. 160, n. 15;

Cataloging

Cataloger: TC
Year Begin: 148
Year End: 161

Technical Details

Collection: Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)
Image Size: 6082 x 5729
File Size: 5 MB
Record: 2095
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2095/3761r.tif

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Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
Tyche 1	Sijpesteijn PJ	1986	180-3	SB XVIII, 13764	Sijpesteijn PJ, Tyche 1, 180-3, 1986 -- SB XVIII, 13764 -- BL IX, 305 (l. 9); BL X, 222 (l. 5)	BL IX, 305 (l. 9); BL X, 222 (l. 5)