Forms for Grapheion ReportsUnknown scribe (Kronion son of Apion?)APISmichigan.apis.3094(MiU)3094p.mich.2.1220163;2;122p.mich;2;1221196611966P.Mich.inv. 725Draft and formulae for a special report to be drawn up by an official of the record office (grapheion) of Tebtynis; this report was to cover a period of 3 years and 8 months, but was to register only four types of contracts affecting titles to property (cessions, mortgages on landed property, sales, and mortgages); the entries are often reduced to specimens, and the genuine personal names are perhaps fictitiousLocation: Ann ArborPub. status: Recto + VersoArchive of Kronion son of Apion, nomographos of the grapheion of TebtynisGreek1 papyrus ; 27 x 24.5 cmPapyrus of a deep brown color, having many small breaks, mainly on the right side; the upper right corner is missingRecto, col. I - 37 (l. 20-34 run under col. II on the right); col. II - 12 + 3;;Verso - 21Source of description: Recto + Verso
Col. I: the writing is a practiced, although rather carelessly formed, cursive; col. II written with a much thicker pen, but perhaps by the same hand (Boak)
April 25, 48 A.D. (or shortly after)Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptClaudius, EmperorKronion son of HerodesApollonios son of Apollonios
Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekTebtynis; Kerkesoucha Orous, Polemonos merisArchives--Egypt.Land titles--Registration and transfer--Egypt.Mortgages--Egypt.Sales--Egypt.Scribes--Fees--Egypt.Drachma.Kerkesoucha Orous (Extinct city)Contracts--Egypt.Real property--Egypt.Tebtunis (Extinct city)DocumentaryPapyrus
(Recto, col. I);;[- - -] of the record office of the villages of Tebtynis and Kerkesoucha Orous in the division of Polemon. (These) are the cessions and mortgages and sales and contracts of security prepared by me from the month Sebastos of the 6th year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator to the month Pharmouthi of the present 9th year, of which a detailed list follows:;Year 6, month Sebaste, the Nth day(?).;Agreement by A son of B with <C son of D(?)> to cede an allotment of x arourai at such-and-such a village.;Mortgage by A son of B with C son of D of an allotment of x arourai at such-and-such a village in consideration of x silver drachmai.;Sale by A son of B with C son of D of a house and courtyard and some other possessions(?).;Agreement by A son of B to sell to C son of D . . .;. . . the 3rd year of Claudius, Phamenoth 6.;A loan by Kronion, son of Herodes, to . . . of 160 drachmai.;I, the aforesaid A son of B, swear by Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator that I in sound health and in accordance with the truth have recorded the cessions and mortgages and sales and contracts of security drawn up by me from the month Sebastos of the 6th year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, to the 30th of Pharmouthi of the present 9th year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, and have falsified nothing. If I swear truly may it be with me, but if falsely may the opposite happen.;(After a space:);On the 13th. Cession of a catoecic allotment of 3 arourai near Tebtynis by Orseus . . . 'to A son of B' to Apollonios son of Apollonios.;On the 14th. Mortgage.;;(Recto, col. II);Cession of a catoecic allotment of x arourai at such-and-such a village by A son of B to C son of D.;<Sale> of a half-share of a house and courtyard and all the appurtenances in such-and-such a village by A son of B and C son of D.;Mortgage of a house or something else and the appurtenances in such-and-such a village by A son of B to C son of D in consideration of x silver drachmai.;Mortgage of a catoecic allotment of so many arourai at such-and-such a village by A son of B to c son of D in consideration of x silver drachmai.;;(At the bottom, 3 more lines, too uncertain to be translated).;;(Verso: text too fragmentary to be translated).
Boak AER, PMich II, 122, 1933 -- BL III, 107 (Col. I, l. 28); BL VIII, 108 (Col. I, l. 7-8, 20-22, 24-26, 28, 32, 35; col. II, l. 5, 8, 11)P.Mich.:2:122