P.Mich.inv. 725 / Verso

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 725

Processing Number

3094

Section/Side

Recto + Verso

Image Side

Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto + Verso

Connections

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

Material

Pap

Size

27 x 24.5 cm

Items

1

Lines

Recto, col. I - 37 (l. 20-34 run under col. II on the right); col. II - 12 + 3;

Verso - 21

Mounted

No

Negative

No

Conservation Status

Papyrus of a deep brown color, having many small breaks, mainly on the right side; the upper right corner is missing

Palaeographic Description

Col. I: the writing is a practiced, although rather carelessly formed, cursive; col. II written with a much thicker pen, but perhaps by the same hand (Boak)

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

April 25, 48 A.D. (or shortly after)

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

Unknown scribe (Kronion son of Apion?)

Type of Text/Title of Work

Forms for Grapheion Reports

Content

Draft and formulae for a special report to be drawn up by an official of the record office (grapheion) of Tebtynis; this report was to cover a period of 3 years and 8 months, but was to register only four types of contracts affecting titles to property (cessions, mortgages on landed property, sales, and mortgages); the entries are often reduced to specimens, and the genuine personal names are perhaps fictitious

Subject Headings

Archives--Egypt.

Land titles--Registration and transfer--Egypt.

Mortgages--Egypt.

Sales--Egypt.

Scribes--Fees--Egypt.

Drachma.

Kerkesoucha Orous (Extinct city)

Contracts--Egypt.

Real property--Egypt.

Tebtunis (Extinct city)

Persons

Claudius, Emperor;

Kronion son of Herodes;

Orseus son of - - -;

Apollonios son of Apollonios

Geographica

Tebtynis; Kerkesoucha Orous, Polemonos meris

Translation

(Recto, col. I)

[- - -] of the record office of the villages of Tebtynis and Kerkesoucha Orous in the division of Polemon. (These) are the cessions and mortgages and sales and contracts of security prepared by me from the month Sebastos of the 6th year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator to the month Pharmouthi of the present 9th year, of which a detailed list follows:

Year 6, month Sebaste, the Nth day(?).

Agreement by A son of B with <C son of D(?)> to cede an allotment of x arourai at such-and-such a village.

Mortgage by A son of B with C son of D of an allotment of x arourai at such-and-such a village in consideration of x silver drachmai.

Sale by A son of B with C son of D of a house and courtyard and some other possessions(?).

Agreement by A son of B to sell to C son of D . . .

. . . the 3rd year of Claudius, Phamenoth 6.

A loan by Kronion, son of Herodes, to . . . of 160 drachmai.

I, the aforesaid A son of B, swear by Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator that I in sound health and in accordance with the truth have recorded the cessions and mortgages and sales and contracts of security drawn up by me from the month Sebastos of the 6th year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, to the 30th of Pharmouthi of the present 9th year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, and have falsified nothing. If I swear truly may it be with me, but if falsely may the opposite happen.

(After a space:)

On the 13th. Cession of a catoecic allotment of 3 arourai near Tebtynis by Orseus . . . 'to A son of B' to Apollonios son of Apollonios.

On the 14th. Mortgage.

(Recto, col. II)

Cession of a catoecic allotment of x arourai at such-and-such a village by A son of B to C son of D.

<Sale> of a half-share of a house and courtyard and all the appurtenances in such-and-such a village by A son of B and C son of D.

Mortgage of a house or something else and the appurtenances in such-and-such a village by A son of B to C son of D in consideration of x silver drachmai.

Mortgage of a catoecic allotment of so many arourai at such-and-such a village by A son of B to c son of D in consideration of x silver drachmai.

(At the bottom, 3 more lines, too uncertain to be translated).

(Verso: text too fragmentary to be translated).

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3094

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich II	Boak AER	1933	122	Boak AER, PMich II, 122, 1933 -- BL III, 107 (Col. I, l. 28); BL VIII, 108 (Col. I, l. 7-8, 20-22, 24-26, 28, 32, 35; col. II, l. 5, 8, 11)	BL III, 107 (Col. I, l. 28); BL VIII, 108 (Col. I, l. 7-8, 20-22, 24-26, 28, 32, 35; col. II, l. 5, 8, 11)

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

H.C. Youtie, ZPE 21 (1976) p. 204-206.

Availability/System Requirements

Institution

sc

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

48

Year End

48

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

3480 x 4608

File Size

2 MB

Record

3094

Link to this Item

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