P.Mich.inv. 83 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number: P.Mich.inv. 83
Processing Number: 3137
Section/Side: Recto
Image Side: Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side: Recto; Verso is blank
Connections: Archive of Pausiris, son of Ammonios, the weaver (see Life in a Multi-cultural Society, 1992, p. 181-205)
Material: Pap
Size: 15 x 37 cm
Items: 2
Lines: 33
Mounted: Yes
Negative: No
Conservation Status: Damaged along the folds
Palaeographic Description: The first hand is a rather large, upright cursive; the second is sloping with the letters at time crowded closely together. (Boak)
Status: published
Library: Ann Arbor

Date: March 11, 61 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: Thermouthion, daughter of Achilleus
Type of Text/Title of Work: Receipt for Payment of Money
Content: Acknowledgment of the receipt of 200 drachmai paid to Thermouthion by her former husband Dioskous, in repayment of a loan she had made to him a year before (see P.Mich. III, 191-192). This loan had more or less the function of a dowry in a (short-lived) marriage which was otherwise without written contract
Subject Headings: Debtor and creditor--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Divorce--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Dowry--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Family--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome; Home ownership--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Loans--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Notaries--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Sales--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Guardian and ward--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Receipts Acknowledgments--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Contracts--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Dwellings--Prices--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Drachma.; Actions and defenses--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Inheritance and succession--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.; Fines (Penalties)--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
Persons: Nero, emperor;; Thermouthion daughter of Achilleus and Ploutarche, former wife of Dioskous (see Life in a Multi-cultural Society, 1992, p. 181-205);; Ploutarche (daughter of Harpaesis, wife of Achilleus, then of Diogenes), mother of Thermouthion (see Life in a Multi-cultural Society, 1992, p. 181-205);; Diogenes son of Pasion, husband of Ploutarche, guardian of Thermouthion (see Life in a Multi-cultural Society, 1992, p. 181-205);; Dioskous son of Pausiris, former husband of Thermouthion (see Life in a Multi-cultural Society, 1992, p. 181-205);; Epimachos, agoranomos
Geographica: Oxyrhynchon polis, Thebais; laura Hippodromou
Translation: The seventh year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Phamenoth 15, dies Augusta, in the city of Oxyrhynchus in the Thebaid. Thermouthion, daughter of Achilleus, a resident of the city of Oxyrhynchus, acting under the guardianship of Diogenes, son of Pasion, husband of her mother Ploutarche, acknowledges in the street to her former husband Dioskous, son of Pausiris, a resident of the same city, that she has received from him a capital sum of two hundred drachmai in silver of Augustan and Ptolemaic coinage, which Dioskous has acknowledged that he received from Thermouthion from the price of a part of a house in the Quarter of the Hippodrome which the same Thermouthion sold with Dioskous as guardian in accordance with a contract made by the same Dioskous and Thermouthion with one another through the record office in the city of Oxyrhynchus in the month Pharmouthi of the sixth year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator concerning the same two hundred drachmai; and neither Thermouthion nor another on her behalf makes or shall make any accusation or shall proceed against Dioskous or his heirs about these things or about anything at all up to the present day; or else, apart from the claim which shall be made being invalid, Thermouthion or whoever shall bring suit on her behalf (shall pay) to Dioskous or his heirs in the case of each proces both the cost and as a fine one hundred drachmai in silver and an equal amount to the public treasury, none the less the contract remains valid. The seventh year of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Phamenoth 15, dies Augusta. Drawn up through Epimachos, agoranomos.
Papyri.info Link: https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3137

Information on Publications

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

PMich III Boak AER 1936 194 Boak AER, PMich III, 194, 1936 -- BL X, 123 (l. 17). - L. 11: read has ho Dioskous, instead of has Dioskous. (PH) BL X, 123 (l. 17). - L. 11: read has ho Dioskous, instead of has Dioskous. (PH)

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography: P. van Minnen, ZPE 96 (1993) p. 119; 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. 11)

Availability/System Requirements

Scanner Initials: CT
Date Scanned: 7/17/1996
Institution: sr

Cataloging

Cataloger: PH
Year Begin: 61
Year End: 61

Technical Details

Collection: Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)
Image Size: 1873 x 2953
File Size: 736 KB
Record: 3137
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3137/83_f.tif

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Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich III	Boak AER	1936	194	Boak AER, PMich III, 194, 1936 -- BL X, 123 (l. 17). - L. 11: read has ho Dioskous, instead of has Dioskous. (PH)	BL X, 123 (l. 17). - L. 11: read has ho Dioskous, instead of has Dioskous. (PH)