P.Mich.inv. 948 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 948

Processing Number

3178

Section/Side

Recto, text a

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto; Verso is P.Mich. V, 241

Connections

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

Material

Pap

Size

14.2 x 29 cm

Items

1

Lines

Text a - 16

Mounted

Yes

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

worn at the folds and at the top and bottom, and somewhat fragile

Palaeographic Description

1st hand: a large, rather sprawling hand; 2nd hand: slow-writer

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

13 A.D.

Origin

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Provenance

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition

June 1922: acquired from Nahman through British Museum

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Orsenouphis (alias) Psosneus, son of Kalales

Type of Text/Title of Work

Subscription of a Contract of Apprenticeship

Content

Subscription to an agreement by Orsenouphis to teach the slave girl Helene, who belongs to Herakleon, the art of weaving during an apprenticeship of two and one-half years; the space left blank above the subscription was later used for memoranda by a scribe of the grapheion (P.Mich. V, 346b-c)

Subject Headings

Apprenticeship

Clothing

Literacy--Egypt--Tebtunis (Extinct city)

Industry

Notary

Profession

Slave

Woman

Persons

Orsenouphis (alias) Psosneus, son of Kalales <or: Orsenouphis son of Psosneus (alias) Kalales>, gerdios;

Helene, paidiske of Herakleon;

Herakleon son of Eirenaios;

Augustus, Emperor;

Herodes son of Herodes (see also P.Mich. II, 121, recto, col. III, abstract 5; V, 252; 257; 293; P.S.I. VIII, 905; 907; X, 1130; add perhaps P.Mich. V, 348)

Translation

I, Orsenouphis (also called) Psosneus, son of Kalales, a weaver, acknowledge that I am under obligation to teach Helene, the slave of Herakleon, son of Eirenaios, the weaver's trade as I myself know it, for two years and six months dating from Pharmouthi of the present forty-second year of Caesar, Helene being fed and clothed during the aforesaid time. I shall give to Helene a tunic worth eight silver drachmai. And if I shall not teach her, or she shall be considered not to know what she has been taught, you will perforce have her taught at my own expense. Herodes, son of Herodes, wrote for him at his request because he is illiterate.

(2nd hand) I, Herakleon, son of Eirenaios, have apprenticed the aforesaid slave girl as aforesaid.

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Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich V	Husselman EM	1944	346, text a	Pl. VI	Husselman EM, PMich V, 346, text a, 1944, Pl. VI -- BL VII, 111 (l. 7,10,13). - L. 2-3: read Herakle|on<os> tou Eirenaiou ... technen, instead of Herakle|on<os> Eirenaiou ... teknen. (PH)	BL VII, 111 (l. 7,10,13). - L. 2-3: read Herakle|on<os> tou Eirenaiou ... technen, instead of Herakle|on<os> Eirenaiou ... teknen. (PH)

Availability/System Requirements

Institution

sc

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

13

Year End

13

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

5015 x 7216

File Size

2 MB

Record

3178

Link to this Item

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