P.Mich.inv. 698 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 698

Processing Number

3059

Section/Side

Recto, col. I (a)

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

47 x 27.5 cm

Items

1

Lines

Col. I (a) - 25

Mounted

Yes

Negative

No

Conservation Status

broken and worn away at the top, left and bottom; many holes and rents in the body of the sheet, some of which may have been present before the papyrus was used

Palaeographic Description

In the handwriting of Kronion, son of Apion (Boak)

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

(After) September 17, 46 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

Kronion son of Apion

Type of Text/Title of Work

Accounts of Expenditures

Content

Accounts of expenditures made by Kronion and his colleague Eutychas, the officials of the record-office (grapheion) of Tebtynis, during part of the month of Sebastos of the 7th year of the Emperor Claudius (Sept. 6-17, 46 A.D.); all these expenses were apparently incidental to the preparation of the records for the last third of the preceding 6th year and are duplicated in P.Mich. II, 123, Verso, col. IX

Subject Headings

Accounts--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

Cities and towns--Registers--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

Food--Prices--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

Priests--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

Scribes--Fees--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

Home economics--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

Writing--Materials and instruments--Costs--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

Drachma.

Persons

Lysas (monographos) (see also P.Mich. II, 123, Verso, col. IX, l. 9);

Patynis (see also P.Mich. II, 123, Verso, col. IX, l. 27);

[Onnophris] (pteraphoros) (see P.Mich. II, p. 224);

(unnamed) nyktographoi

Geographica

Aigyptia

Translation

For expense for writing up the records of the third four-month period (of the 6th year):

On the 9th of the month of Sebastos. For Lysas who writes (them):

for the price of 1 bread: [1 obol].

On the 12th. For us with him, for 4 [breads]: 4 obols.

For a beet and [oil]: 1 1/2 obol.

[- - -].

On the 14th. For the price of [4] breads: 4 [obols].

For the price of a cabbage [and oi]l: 1 obol.

On the 15th. For the price of [4] breads: 4 obols.

For vegetables: a drachme.

On the 16th. For the price of [6] breads: 6 obols.

On the 17th. For the price of breads: 5 obols.

On the 18th. For the price of 5 breads: 5 obols.

For the price of a cabbage and endives: 4 obols.

For the price of oil: 1 obol.

On the 19th. For the price of 6 breads: 6 obols.

For both of us, for entertaining Patynis: 22 obols.

For [Onnophris], who writes the Egyptian (Demotic) contracts: 7 obols.

On the 20th. For the price of the oil for the night [scribes: 4 obols].

For the price (of a scrap) from an unwritten roll: 4 obols.

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3063

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich II	Boak AER	1933	128, col. I (a)	Boak AER, PMich II, 128, col. I (a), 1933 -- BL IX, 159 (l. 2); BL XI, 130 (l. 25);	BL IX, 159 (l. 2); BL XI, 130 (l. 25);

Availability/System Requirements

Institution

sc

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

46

Year End

46

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

4491 x 3480

File Size

2 MB

Record

3059

Link to this Item

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