P.Mich.inv. 4354 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 4354
- Processing Number
- 2192
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 19 x 13.2 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-21
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- This medium-brown is regularly cut off at the top immediately above the first of the effaced lines and at the left. A piece of papyrus has been cut off from the bottom corner at the right hand side. A kollesis 3.4 cm. from the left edge.
- Palaeographic Description
- At places this standard semicursive becomes very cursive. Above the first line there are traces of ink from four effaced lines, of which the last stretches to the first line of the present document. No tremata.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 42 A.D.
- Origin
- Epoikion Eukratous, Herakleides meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt (?)
- Provenance
- Epoikion Eukratous, Herakleides meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt (?)
- Acquisition
- July 1925; Acquired by Dr. Askren and Prof Boak
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- documentary
- Author
- Petesouchos the Elder, son of Esouris, Panetbauis, son of Joseph, and Harmais, son of Panetbauis.
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- offer of lease
- Content
- The three authors of this letter offer Neoptolemos, a decurio militaris, to lease the crop from his (?) olive-farm in Epoikion Eukratous when it is ripe. For this lease they pay 460 stamped silver drachmas. This money will be paid in two equally sized portions, one in Phaophi and one in Hathyr.
- Persons
- Neoptolemos, decurio militaris,
- Petesouchos the Elder, son of Esouris,
- Panetbauis, son of Joseph,
- Harmais, son of Panetbauis,
- Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, emperor,
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- "To Neoptolemos, decurio, from Petesouchos the Elder, son of Esouris, Panetbauis, son of Joseph, and Harmais, son of Panetbauis, three Persians of the Epigone, who vouch for the payment together. We wish to rent from the olive-farm named after Eukrates, the olive fruits which have ripened in the present 3rd year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator. We commit ourselves to pay the total amount of 460 stamped silver drachmas as well as extra fees for . . artabas of black olives. We will pay this rent in two equally divided [halves] in the two months of [Phaophi and Hathyr], at each month the same share of the rent, if you are willing to let us rent us (the crop) unter all the aforementioned conditions. . ."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2192
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections ZPE 50 Schibli HS 1983 93-6 Pl VIa SB XVI 13012 Schibli HS, ZPE 50, 93-6, 1983, Pl VIa -- SB XVI 13012
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 42
- Year End
- 42
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4299 x 4772
- File Size
- 3 MB
- Record
- 2192
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2192/4354r.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 4354; Recto". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2192/4354r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed August 10, 2022.