P.Mich.inv. 6963 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 6963
- Processing Number
- 3051
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto (written across the fibres) + Verso
- Connections
- P.Mich. XVIII, 775-780; P.Heid. VI, 374
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 11.5 x 26.2 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 17;
- Verso - 2
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- Partly damaged
- Palaeographic Description
- Recto written across the fibres
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 205-204 B.C.[?] (or 180 B.C.[?] Kramer)
- Origin
- Mouchis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Provenance
- Unknown necropolis (cemeteries at Abusir al-Malaq or al-Lahun?)
- Acquisition
- Mummy cartonnage bought in 1982
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Peteminis (alias Ptolemaios)
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Official Notice of Non-Payment
- Content
- Official notice of the non-payment of most of the money owed for the concession of the beer sales in Mouchis; the verso shows that the debt was covered by an amnesty
- Subject Headings
- Concessions (Amusements, etc.)--Egypt
- Beer--Egypt.
- Exclusive licenses--Egypt
- Debt cancellation--Egypt
- Aphrodito (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Diophantos;
- Peteminis (alias Ptolemaios) (see P.Mich. XVIII, p. 92-93);
- Petesouchos (see also P.Mich. XVIII, 778?);
- (Ptolemy V Epiphanes?), basileus
- Geographica
- Mouchis, Polemonos meris; Aphrodites polis
- Translation
- To Diophantos from Peteminis, resident of Mouchis in the Division of Polemon. I inform you of Petesouchos, the holder of the beer concession at Mouchis and Aphroditopolis for the [. .] year: 27 talents for the (sc. beer shop) in Mouchis, 12 talents for Aphroditopolis, 39 talents in all, from which has been paid 8 talents for Mouchis, and 6 talents for Aphroditopolis, totaling 14, the remainder being 25 talents - from which there is for security to him a house in Mouchis and a vacant plot of land.
- (Verso)
- (2nd hand) Year 1, which (debts) the King has forgiven.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3051
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich XVIII Loftus A - Schwendner G 1996 780A Pl. XVII Loftus A - Schwendner G, PMich XVIII, 780A, 1996, Pl. XVII
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- B. Kramer, Archiv 44 (1998) p. 326
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- s
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- -205
- Year End
- -180
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2310 x 3041
- File Size
- 935 KB
- Record
- 3051
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3051/6963v_a.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 6963; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3051/6963v_a.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 04, 2024.