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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 76
- Processing Number
- 3115
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- Duplicate of P.Mich. III, 191. - Archive of Pausiris, son of Ammonios, the weaver (see Life in a Multi-cultural Society, 1992, p. 181-205)
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 14.5 x 36.5 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 32
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- Slightly damaged along the folds
- Palaeographic Description
- 1st hand semi-calligraphic hand; 3rd hand: a large, angular, commercial hand (as in P.Mich. III, 191). (Schuman)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- 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. This copy of the 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.
- Family--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Home ownership--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Loans, Personal--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Husband and wife--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Notaries--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Debt cancellation--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Guardian and ward|Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Inheritance and succession--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Divorce--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Drachma.
- Contracts--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Sales--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Dwellings--Prices--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Interest--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Actions and defenses--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Receipts (Acknowledgments)--Egypt--Oxyrhyncite 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.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3115
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich III Schuman VB 1936 192 Schuman VB, PMich III, 192, 1936 -- BL III, 110 (l. 32; see also BL VIII, 212) BL III, 110 (l. 32; 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
- Image Size
- 2171 x 2901
- File Size
- 299 KB
- Record
- 3115
- Link to this Item
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