Agreement concerning Inherited Property
Theodorus
APIS
petra.apis.2
(JoPe)2
p.petra.1.2
0256;1;2
p.petra;1;2
78720
78720
Petra inv. 4
Agreement concerning inherited property, including different kinds of land; toponyms mentioned include the cities of Gaza, Eleutheropolis, and possibly Bero[saba], as well as less well-known and unidentified villages such as Domaeitha, Chapharnaas[ and perhaps Sykom[azon].
Consists of many fragments, with writing transversa charta; top margin (3 cm) and parts of left margin (3.5 cm) extant
Written in Colonia Gaza, this is only document from the Petra papyri that does not derive from the Petra area
Belongs to Theodorus archive
Lines 1-38 reproduced in Plates X-XI
Image tile 0-0 = lines 1-20; tile 0-1 = 19-38
Field no. XXVII
Greek
19 x ca. 850 cm
538 A.D., May 10
Gaza (Palaestina Prima)
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.
English
Greek
papyri
contract
legal document
land
(Lines 1-9) (chi) (rho) In the twelfth year of the reign of [our] Lord [Flavius] Justinianus, the Eternal and [Emperor], in the consulship of [the most glorious] and most excellent Flavius Ioannes, on the sixth before the Ides of May, in Colonia Gaza, in the five hundred ninety-eighth year of the city, on the fifteenth of the month Artemisios, in the first indiction year. (Lines 9-23) According to these written agreements it has been mutually acknowledged without any treachery, [violence, deceit] or compulsion, on the one hand [by the most honorable Dorotheos, son of Diphilos, from . . .] but now residing in the [illustrious city of the] Gazaeans[and the most admirable from the office] of the most eminent prefects of the sacred Praetorium Flavius Dusarios, son of Valens of blessed memory, and on the other hand by the most admirable Theodoros, son of Obodianos, coming from the city of the Petraeans but now residing in this illustrious city of the [Gazaeans] . . . (Lines 27-34) . . . from personal [decision, swearing] by Almighty God and by the piety and victory and life of our all-[conquering] Lord Flavius Justinianus, the Eternal and [Emperor] Augustus and . . .
P.Petra I 2
P.Petra:1:2