P.Wisc. inv. 33

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Inventory Number

P.Wisc. inv. 33

Processing Number

5381

Section/Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto; Verso has some traces of ink

Material

Pap

Size

7.8 x 21.9 cm

Items

1

Lines

39 lines

Mounted

Yes

Negative

No

Conservation Status

A middle-brown papyrus, neatly cut off at the right-hand side, where the text runs up to the edge, at the left-hand side and the top. At the top there is a margin of 1.5 cm., at the left-hand side one of approx. 1 cm. Eight horizontal folds are still visible. The verso side, which shows traces of washed-off writing, has been reinforced in three places with small pieces of papyrus of a different color (one pieces still shows letters).

Palaeographic Description

The text, which runs parallel to the fibers and is mainly mutilated by holes in the folds, displays a fine, clearly legible hand. The ink is of a deep black color.

Status

Published

Library

Department of Special Collections; Memorial Library; Madison; Wisconsin

Contents

Date

September 11,185 A.D.

Origin

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Provenance

Unknown

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Unknown

Type of Text/Title of Work

Lease of a Slave to a Weaver

Content

This papyrus is one of many contracts in which a slave is hired out for the performance of a certain kind of work by his/her master, who receives the proceeds of the slave’s work.

Subject Headings

Slave

Hire

Performance

Work

His/her Master.

Persons

Glaukios, son of Pekysis;

Dieus;

Achilllas, son of Harpaesis;

Tesposiris;

Tapontos.

Geographica

Oxyrhynchos;

Sento.

Translation

Glaukios, son of Pekysis, his mother being Dieus, form Oxyrhynchos, living in Sento, has hired out to Achilllas, son of Harpaesis, his mother being Tesposiris, from the same town, for the duration of one year, starting on the first of the present month of Thoth, his female slave Tapontos for the performing of weaver’s activates, (while) the lessor will see to it that the female slave is not absent from him day or night, while she is fed by and obtains the other necessities from Achillas, but her master provides her clothing. The hire for the whole year is four hundred and twenty silver drachmas, which I, Achillas, shall pay to Glaukios without delay in monthly installments at the end of the month, when the lease has been ratified. The female slave Tapontos will have four days off in the month of Tybi and in Pachon also four days, eight days in total, for which nothing will be deducted from the hire. But if she should be absent for more days either because of festival day or because of illness or on account of some imperious necessity on the part of her master, then the hire for those days will be deducted. If needs her during the night to bake bread her master will summon her, without anything being deducted from the hire. The lease is valid. The 26th year of Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus Pius Armeniacus Medicus Sarmaticus Germanicus Britannicus Maximus, the 14th Thoth.

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/wisconsin.apis.5381

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PWisc I	Sijpesteijn PJ	1967	5	Plate II	Sijpesteijn PJ, PWisc I, 5, 1967, Plate II -- ZPE 91 (1992) pp. 91-94.	ZPE 91 (1992) pp. 91-94.

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

Hagedorn Dieter, Bemerkungen zu einigen Wisconsin Papyri. ZPE 1 (1967) pp. 143-160; Ziegler Renate, Bemerkungen zu verschiedenen Papyri; ZPE 91 (1992) pp. 91-94; Hagedorn Dieter, Bemerkungen zu Urkunden; ZPE 142 (2003) pp. 143-146.

Cataloging

Cataloger

MA

Year Begin

185

Year End

185

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Record

5381

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-5381/1 content_copy