P.Mich.inv. 636 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 636

Processing Number

2825

Section/Side

Recto

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto; Verso is blank

Connections

Archive of Kronion son of Apion, nomographos of the grapheion of Tebtynis

Material

Pap

Size

16 x 30 cm

Items

1

Lines

1 + 1 +14

Mounted

NO

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

complete

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

August-September 30 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

Harpaesis, son of Panorses

Type of Text/Title of Work

Contract for Work

Content

Subscription to a contract by which Harpaesis, son of Panorses, agrees to plant mulberry trees on the dykes around 300 arourai of land, and to provide up to 150 trees, which he agrees to water five times a month. At the top of the papyrus, the body of the contract was begun, but left unfinished, probably because of a mistake in the second word

Subject Headings

Agriculture

Ethnicity

Literacy--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

Irrigation

Iranians--Egypt

Slave

Persons

Harpaesis son of Panorses, Perses tes epigones;

Tiberius, Emperor;

Phileros, doulos;

Marepsemis son of Marepsemis the lesones (see also P.Mich. V, 314, and p. 386 for other possible parallels)

Geographica

Perses

Translation

Year six<teenth ....>

(To be copied) from the roll.

I, Harpaesis, son of Panorses, a Persian of the epigone, agree without reservation to make a plantation in a thicket on the dyles around the 300 arourai, from the present month, Sebastos, of the seventeenth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, because I have written on these conditions and I have taken for myself at once and have received from the payment which was fixed to be given, from the 144 drachmai of silver, 60 silver drachmai on account, at once, from hand to hand, from Phileros, the slave. And I shall receive the remaining 84 drachmai in monthly installments, beginning with the month Mecheir, and I shall provide up to 150 living mulberry trees on the aforesaid enbankments, and I shall water them five times a month. If I do not provide them as aforesaid, <I shall be obliged to forfeit> the 144 drachmai of silver and the interest as aforesaid. Marepsemis, son of Marepsemis the lesones, wrote for him because he is illiterate.

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2825

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich V	Husselman EM	1944	349	Husselman EM, PMich V, 349, 1944

Availability/System Requirements

Institution

sc

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

30

Year End

30

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

2803 x 4524

File Size

2 MB

Record

2825

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2825/636r.tif content_copy

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IIIF

Manifest

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:2825:636R.TIF content_copy