Pap. London, British Library Pap 1788

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Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. London, British Library Pap 1788
Publication Number	P.Lond. V 1736
Current Location	London, British Library
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	purchase Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	R. de Rustafjaell Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Aswan / Syene
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1907 and
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Harold I. Bell Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Dating	between 611 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at top

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (recto) and perpendicular (verso)
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	broken at top
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Flavius Dius, son of Basilides (identified by hand)
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+34	1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Loan contract
Ancient Archives	private archive \| Patermouthis
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Flavius Dios, son of Basilides
Text Types	documentary documentary \| contract
Summary of Content	Patermouthis and Kako borrow from the boatman Ioannes four solidi repayable on demand at 8\|% per annum interest (1/3 solidus per year) and pledge all their property as guarantee of payment.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok Hand 1 or contract and hand of the hypographe not correct?? translation J. J. Farber in Pap.Eleph.Eng. (1996) D51
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	woman as wife in contract
Religion	Christianity
Comment on Religion	Christogramm

Text

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x+1	†̣ β̣α̣σ̣ι̣λ̣είας τοῦ θειοτ̣ά̣[τ(ου)] καὶ γαληνοτάτου καὶ θεοστεφοῦς
x+2	ἡμῶν δεσπότου Φλαυίου Ἡρα̣κλείου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐ̣γούστου
x+3	Αὐτοκράτ̣ο̣ρ̣ος ἔτους πρώτ̣ου vac. ? Φαμενὼθ α ἰνδικτίονος ιδ.
x+4	Φλαύιος Πατερμούθις Μηνᾶ στρατιώτης ἀριθμοῦ Ἑλεφαντίνης ναύτης
x+5	ἀπὸ Συ̣ή̣ν̣η̣ς καὶ ἡ τούτου σύμβιος̣ Αὐ̣ρ̣ηλία Κακὸ
x+6	θυγάτηρ Ἰακώβου † Αὐρη̣λίῳ Ἰωάννῃ
x+7	Πιτύρω̣ν̣ος ναύτῃ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς Συήνης χαίρειν.
x+8	ὁμολογοῦμεν ἐξ ἀληλεγγύης ¹ l. ἀλληλεγγύης διὰ τ̣α̣ύ̣-
x+9	τῆς μου ² l. ἡμῶν τῆς ἐγγράφου ἀσφαλείας ἐσχηκέναι καὶ
x+10	δεδανεῖσθαι παρὰ σοῦ σήμερον εἰς ἀναγκαίαν̣ ἡμ̣ῶν (?)
x+11	χρείαν χρ̣υσοῦ νομ̣ίσμ̣α̣τα τέσσερα ³ l. τέσσαρα ζυγῷ Συήνης,
x+12	γίνεται χρυσοῦ νομίσματα δ ζ̣υγῷ Συήνης, ἅπερ ἑτοίμως ἔχομεν
x+13	παρασχεῖν σοι ὁπόταν βουληθείης τοῦτʼ ἔστιν
x+14	κα̣θʼ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν χρυσ̣οῦ τριμήσιον
x+15	ἓν ζυγ̣ῷ̣ Συή̣ν̣ης ἀπὸ τῆς προγεγραμμένης ἡμέρας ἰδίῳ
x+16	ἡμῶν κ̣ι̣ν̣δ̣ύνῳ καὶ π̣ό̣ρῳ τῆς ἡμῶν̣ ὑ̣π̣ο̣στά-
x+17	σεω̣ς̣ ἰδίκ̣ω̣ς καὶ γενίκως νόμῳ ἐνεχύρου
x+18	χωρὶς τινὸς ἀντιλογίας καὶ εἰς ἀσφάλειαν σὴν̣ πεποι-
x+19	ήμεθα ο̣ὖ̣ν̣ τ̣ὴν ἀ̣λληλέγγυον ἀσφάλειαν κυρίαν καὶ β̣εβαίαν ἁπα̣ν̣ταχοῦ προφ̣ερομένην
x+20	μεθʼ ὑ̣π̣ογ̣ρ̣αφῆς τοῦ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ὑ̣π̣ο̣γράφοντος καὶ ἐπερωτηθέντες ὡμολογή-
x+21	σαμ̣εν̣ κ̣αὶ ἀπ̣ε̣λ̣ύσ(αμεν). Φλαύιος Παθερμούθις Μηνᾶ
x+22	στρατιώτης ἀριθ(μοῦ) ἐ̣ν̣ τῇ Ἐλεφαντίνῃ καὶ ἡ τούτου σύμβιος
x+23	Αὐρηλία̣ Κα̣κοὺ(?) θυγάτηρ Ἰακὼβ οἱ προ-
x+24	γεγραμμένοι στοιχεῖ ἡμῖν ἡ ἀσφάλεια
x+25	τῶν τε̣σσάρων νομισματίων ζυγῷ Συήνης
x+26	ὡς̣ πρόκειται. ☧ Φλαύιος Δῖος̣ Βασιλείδου ἀπὸ
x+27	ἀκτουαρίων ἀριθμοῦ Συήνης ἀξιωθεὶς ἔγραψα
x+28	ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν̣ γράμμα̣τ̣α̣ μὴ εἰδότων. †
x+29	† Σ̣τ̣ρ̣α̣ ̣ψ̣ος̣ διάκονος μαρτυρῶ.
x+30	† Φλαύιος Ἰωάννης Κ̣α̣εῖ̣τ̣ος στρατιώτης ἀριθμοῦ
x+31	Συή̣νης μαρτυρῶ. † Φ̣λ̣αύιος Βικτ̣ο̣ρος̣ ⁴ l. Βίκτωρ
x+32	Ἰω̣άννου̣ σ̣τ̣ρ̣(ατιώτης) ἀ̣[ρ]ιθμοῦ Συήνη ς
x+33	μαρτ̣υρῶ̣. †
x+34	(hand 1?) †̣ δ̣ιʼ -?-

¹ l. ἀλληλεγγύης
² l. ἡμῶν
³ l. τέσσαρα
⁴ l. Βίκτωρ

35	(hand 5?) † ἀσφάλεια(?) Πατερμουθίο̣υ̣ Μηνᾶ καὶ Κακοὺ γ̣α̣μ̣ετῆς α̣ὐ̣τ̣οῦ ̣ ̣ ̣ vac. ? †̣ νομισμάτων δ ζ̣υγῷ Συήν̣ης.

x	--- [In the name of --- ] --- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1	In the first year of the reign of our most divine and most serene
x+2	and crowned-by-god master Flavius Heraclius the eternal Augustus,
x+3	Emperor, on Phamenoth 1, in the 14th indiction.
x+4	Flavius Patermouthis son of Menas, soldier of the regiment of Elephantine, boatman
x+5	from Syene, and his wife, Aurelia Kako
x+6	daughter of Iakobos, † to Aurelius Ioannes
x+7	son of Pituron, boatman from the same Syene, greetings. .
x+8	We acknowledge, by mutual surety, by this, my
x+9	written security, that we have gotten and
x+10	have borrowed from you today for our essential
x+11	needs, gold, four solidi in the weight of Syene,
x+12	i. e., gold, 4 solidi, in the weight of Syene. These we are ready
x+13	to provide to you whenever you may wish — that is,
x+14	each year a tremissis
x+15	in the weight of Syene, from the aforesaid day at our own
x+16	risk and by means of our proper-
x+17	ty, wholly and singly, as pledge,
x+18	without any argument. And for your security we have had
x+19	made the mutually-guaranteed security, which is valid and warranted wherever brought forward,
x+20	with the signature of the one signing on our behalf. And having been questioned,
x+21	we have expressed acknowledgement and executed (the document). Flavius Patermouthis son of Menas,
x+22	soldier of the regiment in Elephantine and his wife
x+23	Aurelia Kako daughter of Iakob, the
x+24	aforesaid. The security
x+25	for four solidi in the weight of Syene is satisfactory to us
x+26	as aforementioned. ☧ Flavius Dios son of Basileides, former
x+27	actuarius of the regiment of Syene, having been asked, wrote
x+28	on their behalf since they are not literate. †
x+29	(2nd hand) † I, Stra(.)psos, deacon, bear witness.
x+30	(3rd hand) † I, Flavius Ioannes son of Kaeis, soldier of the regiment
x+31	of Syene, bear witness .† (4th hand) I, Flavius Victor
x+32	son of Joannes, soldier of the regiment of Syene,
x+33	bear witness [†].
x+34	(lst hand) † Written by [me, Flavius Dios son of Basileides, former actuarius].

x+35

(5th hand) [† Security] of Patermouthios son of Menas and Kako his wife --- † 4 solidi, weight of Syene.

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
30520	man	Aurelius / Flavius Patermouthis, son of Menas (alias Benne) and the mother Tsia	Αὐρηλίῳ Πατερμουθίῳ Μηνᾶτος…… (), ⲡⲁⲧⲉⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ	pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Heraclius	01	Phamenoth	01	611 February 25 CE	date in text;

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Literature

DatasetID	310330
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	19749
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.lond;5;1736
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310330 (= Pap. London, British Library Pap 1788), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.