P.Mich.inv. 75 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number: P.Mich.inv. 75
Processing Number: 3109
Section/Side: Recto
Image Side: Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side: Recto; Verso is blank
Connections: Duplicate of P.Mich. III, 192. - Archive of Pausiris, son of Ammonios, the weaver (see Life in a Multi-cultural Society, 1992, p. 181-205)
Material: Pap
Size: 15.4 x 36.3 cm
Items: 1
Lines: 32
Mounted: Yes
Negative: Yes
Conservation Status: Damaged along the folds
Palaeographic Description: The 1st hand shows a marked inclination to avoid sharp angles in letter-forms and un numerous instances the perpendicular stroke of beta and phi is extended to the first and second lines below that in which the letter occurs. The 3rd hand is a large, angular, commercial hand (as in P.Mich. III, 192). (Schuman)
Status: published
Library: Ann Arbor

Date: April 18, 60 A.D.
Origin: Oxyrhynchon polis, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt
Provenance: Oxyrhynchon polis, 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: Dioskous, son of Pausiris, and his wife Thermouthion, daughter of Achilleus
Type of Text/Title of Work: Loan of Money
Content: Contract of loan of 200 drachmai by Thermouthion to her husband Dioskous, more or less replacing the dowry in a marriage without written contract; the text further precises that the money came from part of a house which she had inherited from her father and had sold recently (if not the same day), and that Thermouthion had given another 140 drachmai, also coming from the sale of part of a house, to her mother, as repayment to a (similar) loan from her mother to her father. The other copy of this contract of loan was cancelled when the loan was repaid one year later, after the divorce of Thermouthion and Dioskous. (See also P.Mich. III, 194)
Subject Headings: Debtor and creditor--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Debt cancellation--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Drachma.; Loans, Personal--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Marriage--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Notaries--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Family--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Guardian and ward|Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Inheritance and succession--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Receipts Acknowledgments--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Husband and wife--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Dowry--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Home ownership--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Sales--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Contracts--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Actions and defenses--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Interest--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
Persons: Nero, emperor;; Dioskous son of Pausiris, husband of Thermouthion (see Life in a Multi-cultural Society, 1992, p. 181-205);; Thermouthion daughter of Achilleus and Ploutarche, wife of Dioskous (see Life in a Multi-cultural Society, 1992, p. 181-205);; Diogenes son of Pasion, (second) husband of Ploutarche, guardian of Thermouthion (see Life in a Multi-cultural Society, 1992, p. 181-205);; Didymos son of Didymos;; Ploutarche daughter of Harpaesis, wife of Achilleus, then of Diogenes, mother of Thermouthion (see Life in a Multi-cultural Society, 1992, p. 181-205);; Achilleus son of Pastoys, deceased father of Thermouthion (see Life in a Multi-cultural Society, 1992, p. 181-205);; Andromachos, agoranomos;; Chairemon, agoranomos;; Sotades, agoranomos
Geographica: Oxyrhynchon polis, Thebais; laura Hippodromou
Translation: Year 6 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Pharmouthi (2nd hand) 23, (1st hand) in the city of Oxyrhynchus of the Thebaid.; Dioskous, son of Pausiris, and his wife Thermouthion, daughter of Achilleus, acting with her guardian Diogenes, son of Pasion and husband of her mother Ploutarche, all residents of the city of Oxyrhynchus, make acknowledgment in the street; Thermouthion, that she has not given to her aforesaid husband Dioskous more than the sum of 200 drachmai of imperial and Ptolemaic silver coinage out of the price for which she, acting with her guardian, the same Dioskous, sold to Didymos, son of Didymos, her portion of a house inherited from her father in the Hippodrome Quarter, because she has paid the remainder of the price to her mother Ploutarche, daughter of Harpaesis, toward the amount owed to her by Achilleus, son of Pastous, the designated father of Thermouthion and the former, and now deceased, husband of Ploutarche, according to a receipt that she (Ploutarche) has given to her; and Dioskous, that he has now received from Thermouthion the aforesaid 200 drachmai of silver and that he must repay it to her without interest within sixty days from the day that it is demanded of him or she has the right of execution regarding this amount both upon him and upon all his property as if in accordance with a court decision. This agreement is binding.; (3rd hand) Year 6 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Pharmouthi 23. Registered through Andromachos, associate of Chairemon and Sotades, agoranomoi.
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Information on Publications

Publications: Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections

PMich III Schuman VB 1936 191 Schuman VB, PMich III, 191, 1936 -- BL III, 110 (l. 32 of the edited text; see also BL VIII, 212) BL III, 110 (l. 32 of the edited text; see also BL VIII, 212)

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography: U. Wilcken, Archiv 12 (1937) p. 230; T. Gagos - L. Koenen - B.E. McNellen, Life in a Multi-cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond (Chicago, 1992) p. 181-205, in part. p. 187-189; 202 (No. 9)

Availability/System Requirements

Time to Scan: 24
Scanner Initials: CT
Date Scanned: 6/20/1996
Institution: sr

Cataloging

Cataloger: PH
Year Begin: 60
Year End: 60

Technical Details

Collection: Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)
Image Size: 6625 x 5383
File Size: 5 MB
Record: 3109
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3109/75r.tif-2

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Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich III	Schuman VB	1936	191	Schuman VB, PMich III, 191, 1936 -- BL III, 110 (l. 32 of the edited text; see also BL VIII, 212)	BL III, 110 (l. 32 of the edited text; see also BL VIII, 212)