P.Mich.inv. 6908 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 6908
- Processing Number
- 3020
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto (written across the fibres); Verso is blank
- Connections
- + P.Mich.inv. 6919; Archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 47 x 18 cm
- Items
- 3
- Lines
- 28
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- broken off at the top and on the left side
- Palaeographic Description
- Recto written across the fibres
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- (Middle of the) VIth century A.D.
- Origin
- Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome, province of the Lower Thebais, Thebais, Egypt
- Provenance
- Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome, province of the Lower Thebais, Thebais, Egypt
- Acquisition
- purchased in 1943 through Th. Whittemore
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Aurelius Ioannes, son of Hermias
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Contract of Deposit(?)
- Content
- Fragmentary contract by which Aurelius Ioannes, son of Hermias, seems to give guarantees for the repayment of a deposit
- Persons
- Aurelius Ioannes (John) son of Hermeias (Hermias <or Hermaios?>) and [- - -];
- Phoibammon son of Triadelphos, [ktetor(?)];
- Kalauous (see Geographica);
- [Victor son of?] Kollouthos (brother of Phoibammon?);
- - - - son of Iosephios (Joseph);
- Aurelius Ioannes (John) son of Abraam (Abraham);
- Aurelius Kyriakos son of Hermeias (Hermias);
- Hermauos, nomicus
- Geographica
- Aphrodite, Antaiopolite nome; georgion legomenon Piah Kalauoutos (see also P.Lond. IV, 1419-1420?)
- Translation
- [- - -. (Cross)] Aurelius Ioannes, son of Hermias [and - - -, from the village] of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite [nome, to - - -, through] you Phoibammon, son of Triadelphos, [landowner(?)] of the same village of Aphrodite, greetings. [- - -] in account of deposit(?) [- - -] of the farm called Piah Kalauoutos [- - -] formerly being to the name [- - -] Kollouthos, your brother, from [- - -] in account of the price of the same farm, [five(?) ounces] of gold, i.e. 5(?) [ounces of gold], and I acknowledge at my own risk and mortgaging all my [property], generally and severally, that I shall [guard] and return to you the afore-mentioned [- - - without damage] and guaranteed [whenever you wish] in whatever place you wish in the same [village of Aphrodite and if I don't] do so you and the afore-mentioned [Victor] have the authority to possess all my property [- - - before every] magistrate and in every court until I shall recognise the afore-mentioned price [double] upon condition that you, the afore-mentioned Phoibammon, or Victor shall have the possession of the said [farm uninsulted] and unmolested by anyone concerning this property [of mine] in regard to which I [executed] for you this security with my own [subscription] followed in order by those of the customary [witnesses] bearing witness and being formally asked I agreed to all things.
- (2nd H.) I, Aurelius [Ioannes], son of Hermias, the afore-mentioned, executed this security and I [agree] with all that is herein written as afore said. (3rd H.) [I, - - -], son of Iosephios, bear witness to the security, having heard declarations from the person executing it. (. . .) (4th H.) I, Aurelius Ioannes, son of Abraam, bear witness to the security, having heard declarations from the person executing it. (5th H.) I, Aurelius] Kyriakos, son of Hermias, bear witness to the security, having heard declarations from the person executing it.
- (6th H.) Written by me, Hermauos, nomicus. (Tachygraphy).
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3020
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich XIII Sijpesteijn PJ 1977 671 Pl. XXIX-XXX Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 671, 1977, Pl. XXIX-XXX -- BL VII, 117 (l. 6, 8, 11, 12-13, 14, 17, 20); BL VIII, 217 (bibliography). - To be republished: several fragments of the lower right corner were found under inv. 6919; in l. 5, parathekes seems uncertain. (PH, with TG). BL VII, 117 (l. 6, 8, 11, 12-13, 14, 17, 20); BL VIII, 217 (bibliography). - To be republished: several fragments of the lower right corner were found under inv. 6919; in l. 5, parathekes seems uncertain. (PH, with TG).
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- J. Gascou, CE 52 (1977) p. 366; G.M. Parassoglou, Hellenika 30 (1977-1978) p. 71-72; D. Hagedorn, ZPE 28 (1978) p. 284; J. Modrzejewski, Rev.Hist.Droit fr. et étr. 56 (1978) p. 146; J. Hermann, ZPE 34 (1979) p. 131-132; Kleine Schriften zur Rechtsgeschichte = Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte. 83 (München, 1990) pp. 264-265.
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 500
- Year End
- 599
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3480 x 4608
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 3020
- Link to this Item
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