P.Wisc. inv. 8 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Wisc. inv. 8

Processing Number

5380

Section/Side

Recto

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto; Verso has some traces of ink

Material

Pap

Size

10.5 x 21.6 cm

Items

1

Lines

32 lines

Mounted

Yes

Negative

No

Conservation Status

A middle-brown papyrus, only cut off fairly straight at the top. A margin of 2 cm. is preserved at the top and one of 1 cm. at the left-hand side. The papyrus is badly mutilated. Four vertical folds are still noticeable.

Palaeographic Description

The handwriting, bespeaking a skilled hand, is clearly brought out by the dark letters and runs parallel to the fibers. The lines tend to slope downwards to the right. There are ink traces visible on the verso side.

Status

Published

Library

Department of Special Collections; Memorial Library; Madison; Wisconsin

Contents

Date

August/September 53 A.D.

Origin

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Provenance

Unknown

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Unknown

Type of Text/Title of Work

Apprenticeship to a Weaver

Content

Although Pausiris was a master of the weaver’s trade so that he could take apprentices, he apprenticed his own sons to other weavers. This procedure might be occasioned by a law prohibiting a father to take his own son as apprentice. This phenomenon might just as well point to a vast specialization in the trade or might be explained on psychological grounds.

Subject Headings

Master of the Weaver’s trade

Sons

Apprentices

Law Prohibition.

Persons

Pausiris, son of Ammonios;

Apollonios, son of Apollonios;

Dioskus;

Apollonios.

Translation

Pausiris, son of Ammonios and Apollonios, son of Apollonios, weaver, have agreed between them that Pausiris has bound his son Dioskus, who is still under age, apprentice to Apollonios in order to learn the whole weaver’s trade, as he also knows it himself, for the period of one year from the present day, whilst he shall perform and do everything which he is told to do. Apollonios has received for the boy, who is clothed and dressed by the weaver for the duration of the whole period, fourteen drachmas for clothing and Pausiris shall give him five silver drachmas a month for his food. And the said Pausiris, the father,, must not take the boy away from the master within the period. If he does not perform all the tasks, he must pay the master one silver drachma for each day that he does not do his duty or he shall send him to stay on the equal number of days and the penalty for taking the boy away within the period agreed on is a hundred drachmas and an equal sum to the treasury. Should the master fail to instruct the boy, he shall pay the same fine. The indenture is valid. The thirteenth year of Tiberius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, [ . (.)] Thoth [ . . . . . .

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/wisconsin.apis.5380

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PWisc I	Sijpesteijn PJ	1967	4	Plate II	Sijpesteijn PJ, PWisc I, 4, 1967, Plate II

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Cataloger

MA

Year Begin

53

Year End

53

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

3873 x 5291

File Size

3 MB

Record

5380

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-5380/w8r.tif content_copy

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Manifest

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:5380:W8R.TIF content_copy