Sale of Part of a HouseAurelia Maria, daughter of PapnytisAPISmichigan.apis.3015(MiU)3015p.mich.13.6630163;13;663p.mich;13;6633732537325P.Mich.inv. 6903Sale of parts of a house, including two rooms, by Aurelia Maria, daughter of Papnytis, acting apparently without any male guardian, to several persons, including probably Onnophrios and StratekeiaErroneously published as inv. 6904 in the ed.pr.Location: Ann ArborPub. status: Recto (written across the fibres); Verso is blank+ P.Mich. inv. 6919; 6921 - Archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito.Greekmany fragments papyri ; 90 x 24.5 cm (as published)Broken off on the left side and at the top; broken also along nearly every horizontal fold. P.Mich. inv. 6919 and 6921 group a few fragments belonging to the upper part of this roll, but these cannot be connected into a continuous text.51 as publishedSource of description: Recto
Recto written across the fibres
VIth century A.D.probably Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome, province of the Lower Thebais, Thebais, EgyptChristophoros son of ApollosOnnophrios (Onnophris)Stratekeia (Strategia)Patelaonos(?) (former owner)Aurelia Maria daughter of PapnytisAurelius Kallinikos son of PetrosEnoch son of Menas, anagnostesTheodosios, tabellion
Aphrodite (Aphrodito), Antaiopolite nome, province of the Lower Thebais, Thebais, Egypt
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekHouse OwnershipLiteracy--Egypt--Aphrodito (Extinct city)NotaryPriest (Christian)SaleWomanDocumentaryPapyrus
(at least 25 incomplete lines);[- - -] and inhabit and control and manage them [and lease and sublease them] and convey them to your [own] heirs and assigns and [successors], and use and enjoy them [as you wish] with the rights of ownership and without hindrance [or let]. And you shall be free from opposition present or future from any of those who are [heirs] or co-heirs [after me], or of [my relations by birth or my connections]; and I shall defend you at my own [expense and costs] from whoever shall [in future] take proceedings against you [concerning this] and I shall confirm your possession with every confirmation at all times and [on every occasion], compulsory, against everyone who shall attack or take proceedings against you; and if I am negligent in the confirmation, I shall pay [three times] the price together with costs [and damages] in order that (this deed of sale) may be valid and inviolable wherever it is produced; which deed , written in one copy, I have of my own free will and consent [executed] at the Public Registry without any violence, deceit or compulsion or any fraud, without any [intimidation or guile], and [for] your security I have given [you] this copy completed according to the laws [with the subscription] of him who subscribes for me, followed in order by those of the customary witnesses who have at my [summons] born witness to it; and for all that is herein written and for the guarantee of confirmation of this sale and for its freedom of encumbrances all [my possessions] present and future, movable, [immovable] and live-stock, generally and severally, in every class and [kind] are submitted to you as a [pledge] and with the force of a mortgage as though by decree of court. And being asked the formal question [concerning all that is herein written I agreed that the things were so, and so to give, [do] and keep.;(2nd hand) (Cross) I, [the afore-said], Aurelia Maria, daughter of Papnytis, [have executed] this deed of sale, and have received the afore-said full [price] in two nomismatia, and shall confirm your possession with every confirmation [against everyone], always, and I agree with all that is herein written; and I have sworn [the divine] oath as aforementioned. (Cross) I, Aurelius Kallinikos, son of Petros, have written it at her request [- - -].;(3rd hand) [- - -], son of Ioannes, D.V. presbyter, I bear witness to this deed of sale, having heard declarations from the [person executing it and I bear witness] also to the payment of the two gold nomismata of the price. (Cross);(4th hand) [- - -], D.V. presbyter, I bear witness to this deed of sale, having heard declarations from the person executing it and I bear witness [also to the payment] of the two gold nomismata of the price. (Cross);(5th hand) I, Aurelius . . ., [son of - - -], bear witness to this deed of sale, having heard declarations from the person executing it and I bear witness [also to the payment] of the two gold nomismata of the price.;(6th hand) I, Aurelius [- - -, bear witness] to this deed of sale, having heard declarations from the person executing it and I bear witness [also to the payment] of the two gold nomismata of the price. (Cross);(7th hand) (Cross). I, Eunoch, son of Menas, reader, [bear witness to this] deed of sale, having heard declarations from the person executing it and I bear witness also to the payment of the two [gold] nomismata of the price. (Cross);(8th hand) Written by me Theodosios, D.V. tabellio. (3 crosses). (Tachygraphy)
Sijpesteijn PJ, PMich XIII, 663, 1977, Pl. XIV-XV -- Several new fragments from the upper part of the roll were found under inv. 6919 and 6921; they do not permit to restitute a connected text, but show that Onnophris and Strategia were probably (some of?) the buyers, and that they had the same father, whose name might be Papeous. (PH); BL XI, 133 (identification of persons)P.Mich.:13:663