P.Mich.inv. 5549 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 5549
- Processing Number
- 2491
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 24.4 x 11.1 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 21
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- complete, except a few wormholes
- Palaeographic Description
- see electronic version of PMich IX, 524
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- September 14, 98 A.D.
- Origin
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 28-X
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Petesouchos & Petsiris & Pnepheros, sons of Petheus
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Petition to a Strategos
- Content
- Petition to the strategos Claudius Areios by three brothers, Petesouchos, Petsiris and Pnepheros, requesting that the hegoumenos of Karanis be ordered to search for their missing brother and joint cultivator of some rented land, Petesouchos the younger, in order that this Petesouchos the younger may be compelled to pay his share of the rental due
- Subject Headings
- Agriculture--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Anachoresis (The Greek word)
- Family--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Land tenure--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Land value taxation--Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city)
- Persons
- (Tiberius) Claudius Areios, strategos of the Herakleidou meris;
- Petesouchos son of Petheus;
- Petsiris (Petosiris) son of Petheus, brother of Petesouchos;
- Pnepheros son of Petheus, brother of Petesouchos;
- Petesouchos neoteros son of Petheus, brother of Petesouchos;
- Camelius (see Geographica);
- (unnamed) hegoumenos of Karanis
- Traianus, Emperor
- Geographica
- Herakleidou meris of the Arsinoite nome; Karanis; ousia (former estate) of Camelius
- Translation
- To Claudius Areios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, division of Herakleides, from Petesouchos and Petsiris and Pnepheros, the three sons of Petheus, of the village of Karanis. We happen to have paid in behalf of Petesouchos the younger, our brother, to the account of the Camelian estate fifteen artabai of wheat because he has disappeared. We therefore ask {We therefore ask} that you direct the hegoumenos of Karanis to make a search for him in order that he may discharge his debts to us, that we may obtain relief.
- (2nd hand) Petesouchos, about 65 years, old, with a scar on the second finger of his left hand.
- Petsiris, about 60 years old, with a scar on the little finger of his left hand.
- Pnepheros, about 46 years old, with a scar on the third finger of his left hand.
- Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Trajan Augustus, 17th of the month Sebastos.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2491
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich IX Husselman EM 1971 524 Husselman EM, PMich IX, 524, 1971 -- BL VII, 112 on lines 5-6,11 BL VII, 112 on lines 5-6,11
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- J.R. Rea, JEA 60 (1974) p. 293; Tomasz Derda, ARSINOITHS NOMOS. Administration of the Fayum under Roman Rule, Warsaw 2006, p. 101
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 98
- Year End
- 98
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2320 x 3072
- File Size
- 948 KB
- Record
- 2491
- Link to this Item
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