P.Mich.inv. 623 / Verso

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Record Details

Inventory Number: P.Mich.inv. 623
Processing Number: 2769
Section/Side: Recto + Verso
Image Side: Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side: Recto + Verso
Connections: Archive of Kronion son of Apion, nomographos of the grapheion of Tebtynis
Material: Pap
Size: 10.5 x 29 cm
Items: 1
Lines: Recto - 1 + 5 + 2 + 23;; Verso - 2
Mounted: No
Negative: No
Conservation Status: slightly broken off at the bottom
Palaeographic Description: 1st hand: a medium, mainly upright cursive; 2nd hand: larger and angular, with many separate letters (Boak)
Status: published
Library: Ann Arbor

Date: December 10, 7 A.D.
Origin: Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Provenance: Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Acquisition: 1921, Acquired by Kelsey from Nahman in Cairo
Language: Greek
Genre: Documentary
Author: Thenarmaeis, daughter of Petesouchos
Type of Text/Title of Work: Agreement not to prosecute
Content: Contract whereby a woman, Thenarmaeis, daughter of Petesouchos, binds herself not to go to law with her brothers Harmaeis and Petesouchos over their paternal inheritance; the sheet bears, from top to bottom: 1) a short date; 2) the regular introductory formula, giving the date in full and the place where the contract was drawn up; 3) the registration docket of the grapheion (record office); 4) the subscription of the principal party, which resumes the terms of the agreement, allowing the scribe to leave the body of the contract unwritten; on the verso was the title of the document
Subject Headings: Family; Literacy--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city); Inheritance; Notary; Woman (& guardian)
Persons: Augustus, Emperor;; Apion, nomographos of Tebtynis;; Thenarmaeis (Thenarmais) son of Petesouchos, wife of Stothouetis;; Stothouetis (Stotoetis) son of Stothouetis, husband and guardian of Thenarmais;; Harmaeis (Harmais) son of Petesouchos;; Petesouchos son of Petesouchos); Maron son of Euemeros
Geographica: Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome
Translation: (Recto); Choiak [13].; The thirty-seventh year of the rule of Caesar, son of the deified (Julius), the thirteenth of the month Peritios, Choiak thirteen, in Tebtynis of the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome.; Year 37 of Caesar, Choiak 13, registered through Apion, nomographos of Tebtynis.; I, Thenarmaeis, daughter of Petesouchos, acting under the guardianship of my own husband Stothouetis, son of Stothouetis, agree that neither I nor another on my behalf will bring suit now or in the future against my brothers Harmaeis and Petesouchos, whose mother and father are my own, either about our paternal inheritance or about any matter at all, recorded or unrecorded, in the past up to the aforesaid day. And if I shall proceed against the aforesaid Harmaeis and Petesouchos or prosecute them, or anyone else shall do so on my behalf, the prosecution and charge shall be invalid for me and whoever shall proceed against them on my behalf, and I shall also pay a penalty of double damages and costs, and if I shall break the agreement the penalty shall be two hundred drachmai in silver and the cost and nonetheless {apart from} the terms of the agreement shall be valid for all time, as it has been written above. Maron, son of Euemeros, wrote for them upon request because they are illiterate.; (Verso); [- - -] Harmaeis and Petesouchos.
Papyri.info Link: https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2769

Information on Publications

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

PMich V Boak AER 1944 345 Boak AER, PMich V, 345, 1944

Availability/System Requirements

Institution: sc

Cataloging

Cataloger: PH
Year Begin: 7
Year End: 7

Technical Details

Collection: Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)
Image Size: 2459 x 4595
File Size: 1 MB
Record: 2769
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2769/623v.tif

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Full citation: "P.Mich.inv. 623; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2769/623v.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich V	Boak AER	1944	345	Boak AER, PMich V, 345, 1944