P.Mich.inv. 762 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number
P.Mich.inv. 762
Processing Number
3117
Section/Side
leaf 1
Image Side
Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side
Recto
Connections
-
Material
WT
Size
21.3 x 29.4 cm.
Items
1
Lines
31
Mounted
Yes
Negative
Yes
Conservation Status
The leaves of this waxed diptych is of wood slightly hollowed out and coated with black wax on the inner sides. A large portion of the wax in the center of leaf 1 has crumbled away, probably owing to unfavorable atmospheric conditions, along the edge of the crack in the lower part of the leaf.
Palaeographic Description
The text on this diptych is written in uncial letters, in roughly parallel columns which are at times separated by vertical lines and regularly divided by horizontal strokes to indicate the transition to new items or new dates.
The two leaves were turned back to back, i. e.with the wooden surfaces touching, the edges with the two pairs of holes being at the left. When all the space on the waxed surface of the upper tablet was filled, the writer turned the diptych over vertically and not horizontally, and began to write on the other waxed surface. The result was that, when the two waxed faces subsequently were folded together, the top of one leaf was opposite the bottom of the other, and the writing on one of them would appear upside down.
Status
published
Library
Ann Arbor

Contents

Date
IIIrd century A.D.
Origin
Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Provenance
Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Acquisition
purchased by Mr. Kelsey in Egypt in March and April, 1920, from Mr. Maurice Nahman
Language
Greek
Genre
documentary
Author
unknown
Type of Text/Title of Work
accounts
Content
The diptych contains a series of accounts which for the most port deal with a series of harvest operation-reaping an threshing-carried out between Pauni 2 and Epeiph 30. In addition there three short entries, the relation of which to the foregoing is not clear. This was probably a day-book of an overseer, who kept thereon a detailed record of the daily work performed by the various laborers employed on the estates under his supervision. This record he would use as a memorandum for the calculation of the wages to be paid these workmen, and also for the compilation of a report of expenditures to be presented to his employer, the owner or lessee of the estates, cf. e. g. P. Lond. III1170 verso.
Persons
Gaion;
Julis;
Peteneus;
Charidemos;
Pnepheros;
Sisois;
Petesys;
Heras;
Petheus;
Ptolemaios;
Satabous;
Kothon;
Onesimos;
Sochotes;
Pakysis;
Isidoros;
Aunes;
Horion;
Pasion;
Achillas Poupis;
Aphrodisios;
Geographica
"The Island"
Bacchias
Translation
-

Information on Publications

Publications
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections
JHS 41 Boak AER 1921 217-9 Pl X, XI SB III, 7013 Boak AER, JHS 41, 217-9, 1921, Pl X, XI -- SB III, 7013

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography
Check Brashear, ZPE 50 p. 103-104;

Cataloging

Cataloger
TC
Year Begin
200
Year End
299

Technical Details

Record
3117
Link to this Item
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3117/762_1r.tif

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