P.Mich.inv. 5915 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 5915
- Processing Number
- 2592
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- Archive of Sabinus and Apollinarius
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 29 X 13.7 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 32
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- broken off at the bottom and on the lower right side; fragile and glued to a paper backing
- Palaeographic Description
- See electronic version of PMich IX, 571
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 96 A.D. A.D. 96-98 A.D. (reign of Nerva[?])
- Origin
- unknown place, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 30-C123CCJ-A (2)
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Gaius Iulius Sabinus (lines 1-18); Gaius Iulius Clemens (lines 19-32)
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Contract for Deposit and Receipt for Withdrawal
- Content
- Acknowledgment made by the soldier Gaius Iulius Sabinus that he has received a deposit of 740 drachmai from another deposit from another soldier, Lucius Iulius Celer (lines 1-18). - Receipt issued by the soldier Gaius Iulius Clemens, perhaps acting as executor of Celer's will, to Sabinus, for the sum of 580 drachmai, with some disposition to be made for the remaining 160 drachmai as well as other effects.
- Subject Headings
- Armies--Rome.
- Discharge of contracts--Egypt.
- Clothing and dress--Egypt.
- Death.
- Inheritance and succession--Egypt.
- Finance, Personal--Egypt.
- Citizenship--Rome.
- Wills--Egypt.
- Soldiers--Rome.
- Executors and administrators--Rome.
- Persons
- Gaius Iulius Sabinus, stratiotes (see P.Mich. IX, p. 5-8);
- Gaius Titius Maximus, (centurion);
- Lucius Iulius Celer, stratiotes;
- Minucius Nepos, (centurion);
- Domitianus, Emperor;
- Gaius Iulius Clemens, stratiotes;
- Sempronius Clemens, (centurion);
- Nerva(?), Emperor
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- [[Gaius Iulius Sabinus, soldier of the third Cyrenaic legion in the century of Gaius Titius Maximus, to Lucius Iulius Celer, soldier of the same legion in the century of Minucius Nepos, greetings. I acknowledge that I have from you on deposit (paratheke) seven hundred and forty drachmai of imperial silver coin, 740 dr., which I shall return whenever you wish without delay or evasion. [This chirograph] shall be [valid] for anyone [who produces it] and anywhere [it may be produced as if] it were registered [in] the state archives. The fifteenth year of the [Emperor] Caesar Domitian [Augustus], . . . of the month Pauni(?).]]
- (2nd hand) I, Gaius Iulius Clemens, soldier of the 22nd legion in the century of Sempronius Clemens, have received out of the aforesaid seven hundred and forty drachmai, from hand to hand out of the house, five hundred and eighty drachmai in silver, that is 580 dr., and the remaining [one hundred] and sixty silver [drachmai] he himself . . .
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2592
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich IX Husselman EM 1971 571 Pl. XI Husselman EM, PMich IX, 571, 1971, Pl. XI -- BL VI, 83 (on lines 2, 20); BL VIII, 215-216 (on lines 16-17, 27, 29); BL IX 162 (on lines 7-8). BL VI, 83 (on lines 2, 20); BL VIII, 215-216 (on lines 16-17, 27, 29); BL IX 162 (on lines 7-8).
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- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 96
- Year End
- 96
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2320 x 3072
- File Size
- 948 KB
- Record
- 2592
- Link to this Item
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