P.Mich.inv. 68 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 68
- Processing Number
- 2941
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Connections
- + P.S.I. IV, 320
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 19.1 x 14.5 cm (+ 19 x 10 cm)
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - (at least)14 (P.S.I.) + 22 (P.Mich.);
- Verso - 2 (P.Mich.)
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- broken off between the bottom of the PSI fragment and the top of the Michigan fragment, as well as at the bottom of the latter. Damaged along the folds.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- March 4, 18 A.D.
- Origin
- Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Probably Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Aristopous [- - -]
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Cession of Catoecic Land
- Content
- Cession of six arourai of catoecic land; the contract uses the typical formulae inherited from the Ptolemaic period
- Subject Headings
- Land tenure--Egypt--Bahnas¯a.
- Land grants
- Rome--Army--Cavalry.
- Agriculture--Taxation
- Persons
- Tiberius, Emperor;
- Aristopous [- - -];
- Hermophilos son of Harthoonis;
- Didymos son of Sarapion;
- Eudaimon, brother of Theon;
- Theon, ho pros tois katalochismois, brother of Eudaimon;
- Philon(?) (see Geographica)
- Geographica
- Oxyrhynchon polis tes Thebaidos (Oxyrhynchus); Kerkemounis, ano toparchia; Philonos(?) kleros; . . . ytou kleros
- Translation
- Copy.
- The fourth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, 'Phamenoth' 8, in the city of the Oxyrhynchi of the Thebaid. Aristopous, [- - -], acknowledges to Hermophilos, son of Harthoonis, and Didymos, son of Sarapion, that he has ceded to them, in the street, in accordance with the administrative arrangements of those controllong cavalry affairs and on the basis of a memorandum that he, Aristopous, submitted to Eudaimon who was appointed by his brother Theon, the official in charge of the registry of military settlers' land grants, to each of them equally the six arourai by rectangular measurement of corn-bearing sowable land purchased, (paying) twelve drachmai for the assignment (syntaxis) of the catoeci, belonging to him near Kerkemounis of the Upper Toparchy in the holding of Philon(?), with their yearly rent, in accordance with the contract of lease made with the lessee (of this land), [all the public dues] being to whom the cession is made [- - -
- (several lines missing) - - -] in accordance with the ordinances and instructions concerning these things, in return for the cession fee that Aristopous received in pressing times, to pay the public dues, from those to whom the cession is made; and (he acknowledges to them) that he, Aristopous, won't make any violation nor resort to fraud regarding the cession of the land in any way, but that he must deliver to whom the cession is made and to their representatives the six arourai guaranteed for ever and free from all taxes and payments of previous times up to the past third year and including the past third year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus. If Aristopous violates any of the conditions, his action shall be invalid and he shall pay in addition to whom the cession is made or to their representatives for any kind of violation both the damages and a fine of one thousand drachmai of money and to the treasury the same amount and nevertheless <the provisions agreed shall be binding>, the rights of those to whom the cession is made being undiminished with respect to the obligation of guarantee falling for ever on Aristopous for the other thirteen arourai of a . . . allotment which he ceded to them . . . [- - -]
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2941
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich XVIII Huebner R 1996 784 Pl. XXII-XXIII Huebner R, PMich XVIII, 784, 1996, Pl. XXII-XXIII
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- R. Pintaudi, ZPE 117 (1997) p. 201-202.
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- s
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 18
- Year End
- 18
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2974 x 2195
- File Size
- 869 KB
- Record
- 2941
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2941/68r.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 68; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2941/68r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.