Leases [175-176 AD ?]Tryphonis, daughter of HeronAPIScolumbia.apis.p336(NNC)aaa1149p.col.5.11047410474p.col;5;1-v-5Col.inv. 1,4Abstracts of leases from goverment properties in which the land was given over to cultivation of cereals and fruits; in the first lease the lessee is Tryphonis who acted through her guardian Akes of Narmouthis; in the second the lessee is SokratesWritten across the fibers; on the front P.Col. V 1 recto 522 lines of writing in 2 cols.; the hand is medium-sized, cursive, and practicedWhen the debts which led to the distraint upon the properties concerned in the second col. had not been paid, they were offered for saleThe abstracts of the leases appear in the same papyrus because the strategos had connection with the supervision of bothThe text from line 8 on was a later addition to the document and constituted a slight modification of the previous lines, making more exact statementsThese documents were not copies but abstracts from official documents as the superficial description of properties and ellipses indicateThe dating is mainly based on the likely reading of the name of the strategos HieraxIn the first lease (first col.) the properties in question, which belonged to the usiac administration, were located in the territories of several villages, while in the second the properties were in the same neighborhoodIn Greek1papyrus ; 33.1 x 21.6 cm175 CE – 176 CESokrates, son of Apion
Purchased by Columbia University from M. Nahman through H.I. Bell, in July 1923; no. 1,4 (Lot II) in Bell
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P.Col. V 1 verso 5 On the people appearing in the papyrus, cf. P.Stras. IX 846 and 891; se BL IV p. 22; photo of col. 1 in P.Col. V 1 verso 5P.Col.:5:1