Pap. London, British Library Pap 1799

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. London, British Library Pap 1799
Publication Number	P.Münch. I 3 (= P.Lond. V 1725 + P.Münch. 3)
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
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Harold I. Bell Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	papyrus
Dating	between 580 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	the upper half of the document is kept in the British Library, London, the lower half in the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek München. small pieces broken out

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	two fragments joined from different collections
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, byzantine cursive, scribe Marcus, son of Apa Dios
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	36 (15+21)	1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Text Content

Modern Title	Contract of loan of money - Acknowledgement of debt
Ancient Archives	private archive \| Patermouthis
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Marcus (Flavius), son of Apa Dios
Text Types	documentary documentary \| contract documentary \| dept instrument
Summary of Content	Contract of loan. Aurelius Iakob, son of Konstantios and Maria, acknowledge to Aurelia Maria, daughter of Allamon and Tapia, to have received three solidi of gold as marriage gift, which he will give back on demand.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok translation J. J. Farber in Pap.Eleph.Eng. (1996) D33 image of Munich fragment
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Comment on Gender	woman as contractant
Religion	Christianity
Comment on Religion	Christogramm

Text

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Translation

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1	† βασιλείας καὶ ὑπατείας τοῦ̣ θειοτάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου
2	καὶ μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλα̣υ̣ί̣ο̣υ Τιβερίου Νέου Κων-
3	σταντίνου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγο̣ύ̣σ̣του Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους
4	δευτέρου Φαμενὼθ δεκά̣τ̣ῃ τῆς τρισκαιδεκάτης ¹ l. τρεισκαιδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος
5	ἐν Συή̣ν̣ῃ̣ /
6	Αὐρήλιος Ἰακὼ̣β ἐκ π̣α̣τ̣ρὸς Κωσταντίου ἐκ μητρὸς
7	Μαρίας ναύτης ἀ̣π̣ὸ̣ Σ̣υήνης vac. ? Αὐρηλίᾳ Μάριαμ
8	θυγατρὶ Ἀλ̣λ̣αμονος(?) μητρὸ̣ς̣ Ταπ̣ίας ὁρμωμένῃ
9	ἀπὸ̣ τῆς αὐτ̣ῆς Συήνης τῇ(?) μ̣ου σὺν θεῷ συμβίῳ
10	χαίρειν. ὁμολογῶ ἐγὼ ὁ προγεγραμμένος Ἰακὼβ διὰ
11	ταύτης μου τῆς ἐγγράφου ἀσφαλείας ἔχειν
12	καὶ χρεωστεῖν σοι ὑπὲρ τοῦ̣ συμπεφωνημένου
13	γαμικοῦ σου ἕδνου χρυσο̣ῦ̣ δ̣ο̣κίμου νομισ-
14	μά̣τια τρία ζυγῷ Συήνης̣ γίνονται χρυσοῦ νομίσματια γ ζυγῷ Συήν̣η̣ς̣ ἅπερ
15	τὰ̣ προκείμενα χρυσο̣ῦ̣ νομισμάτια τρεία ² l. τρία ζυγῷ
16	Συήνης ἑτοί̣μ̣ως ἔχω παρασχεῖν σοι̣ ὁπόταν
17	βουληθείης ἀνυπερθέτως ἀτοκεὶ ³ l. ἀτοκὶ ἰδίῳ μου
18	κινδύνῳ καὶ πόρῳ τῆς ἐμῆς ὑποστάσεως
19	τῆς καὶ ὑποκε̣ι̣μένης σοι καὶ̣ ἐνεχομένης
20	ἄχρι ἀποδόσεως κ̣α̣ὶ̣ συνπληρώσεως τοῦ προδεδη-
21	λουμένου ⁴l. προδεδη\|λωμένου χρέους ἄ̣ν̣ε̣υ̣ πάσης ὑπερθέσεώς τε καὶ
22	εὑρεσιλογίας. καὶ εἰς σὴν ἀσφάλειαν πεποίημαι
23	τὸ ἀσφαλὲς κύριον καὶ βέβαιον ἁπανταχοῦ προφερό-
24	μενον μεθʼ ὑπογραφῆς τοῦ ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ ὑπογρά-
25	φοντος καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς ὡμολόγησα καὶ ἀπέλυσα †.
26	† Αὐρήλιος Ἰακὼβ υἱὸς Κωσταντίου ναύταις ⁵ l. ναύτης
27	ἀπὸ Συήνης ὁ προκείμενος ἐθέμην τω ⁶ l. τὸ ἀσφαλὲς
28	τα̣ ⁷ l. τῶν τοῦ χρυσοῦ νομισματια ⁸ l. νομισματίων τρις ⁹ l. τριῶν ζυγῷ Συήνης
29	καὶ στοιχεῖ μοι πάντα ὡς πρόκειται. Φλαύιος Ἰωάν-
30	νης Παείωνος ὀρδινάριος ἀριθμοῦ Συήνης
31	ἀξιωθὶς ¹⁰ l. ἀξιωθεὶς ἔγραψα ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ γράμματα
32	μὴ εἰδότος. † Φλαύιος Ἀβραὰμ Μουσ̣α̣ί̣ου μαρτυρῶ †.
33	† Φλαύιος Ππνοῦθις ¹¹ l. Π<α>πνοῦθις Πέτρου στρατιώτης ἀριθμοῦ
34	Συήνης μαρτυρῶ †. Φλαύιος Ἁ̣τρῆ̣ς Βίκτωρ στρατιώτης
35	ἀριθμοῦ Συήνης μαρτυρῶ.
36	† διʼ ἐμοῦ Μάρκου Ἄπα Δίου ἐσωματ̣ί̣σ̣θη.

¹ l. τρεισκαιδεκάτης
² l. τρία
³ l. ἀτοκὶ
⁴ l. προδεδη|λωμένου
⁵ l. ναύτης
⁶ l. τὸ
⁷ l. τῶν
⁸ l. νομισματίων
⁹ l. τριῶν
¹⁰ l. ἀξιωθεὶς
¹¹ l. Π<α>πνοῦθις

37	† γραμματεῖον γενόμενον παρὰ Ἰακώβου Κωσταντίου ναυ̣της ¹ l. [να]ύτου ἀπὸ Συήνης εἰς χρυσοῦ νομισμάτια γ ζυγῷ Συήνης.

¹ l. [να]ύτου

1	† In the reign and consulship of our most divine master
2	and greatest benefactor Flavius Tiberius Minor Constantine,
3	the eternal Augustus, Emperor, in the second year,
4	on Phamenoth tenth, in the thirteenth indiction,
5	in Syene.
6	Aurelius Iakob, whose father is Kostantios and whose mother is
7	Maria, a boatman of Syene, (space) to Aurelia Mariam
8	daughter of Allamon?, her mother being Tapia, originating
9	from the same Syene, my spouse under God,
10	greetings. I, the aforesaid Iakob, acknowledge through
11	this my written security, that I have
12	and owe to you for the agreed upon
13	marriage gift of yours genuine gold,
14	three solidi, in the weight of Syene, i.e., gold, 3 solidi in the weight of Syene, which
15	aforementioned gold solidi, three in the weight

16	of Syene, I am ready to provide to you whenever
17	you may wish, without delay, free of interest, at my own
18	risk and by means of my assets,
19	which are both mortgaged to you and encumbered,
20	until repayment and satisfaction of the abovecited
21	debt, without any postponement or
22	sophistry. And for your security I have had made
23	(this) security, which is valid and warranted wherever brought forward,
24	with the signature of the one signing on my behalf.
25	And having been questioned, I have expressed acknowledgment and executed (the note) †.
26	(2nd hand) † I, Aurelius Iakob son of Kostantios, boatman
27	from Syene, the aforementioned, have had the security drawn up
28	for gold, three solidi in the weight of Syene,
29	and everything is satisfactory to me as aforementioned. I, Fl. Ioannes
30	son of Paeion, ordinarius of the regiment of Syene,
31	having been asked, wrote on his behalf since he
32	is not literate. (3rd hand) † I, Fl. Abraam son of Mousaios, bear witness †.
33	(4th hand) † I, Fl. Papnouthis son of Petros, soldier of the regiment
34	of Syene, bear witness †. (5th hand) I, Fl. Hatres son of Victor, soldier
35	of the regiment of Syene, bear witness.
36	(1st hand?) † The body (of the deed) was written by me, Markos son of Apa Dios.

37	(1st hand?) A note done by Iakob son of Kostantios, boatman from Syene, for gold, 3 solidi in the weight of Syene.

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Places (read out from edition)

Συή̣ν̣ῃ̣ (places.xml#8)

Σ̣ήνης (places.xml#8)

Συήνης (places.xml#8)

Συήνη (places.xml#8)

ς̣ (places.xml#8)

Συήν̣η̣ς̣ (places.xml#8)

Συ (places.xml#8)

ήνης (places.xml#8)

Συήης (places.xml#8)

Συήνης (places.xml#8)

Συήης (places.xml#8)

Συήνης (places.xml#8)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
31190	woman	Aurelia Maria, daughter of Allamon and Tapia	Αὐρηλίᾳ Μάριαμ θυγατρὶ Ἀλ̣λ̣αμονος(?) μητρὸ̣ς̣ Ταπ̣ίας	Hebrew, Ancient

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
		Phamenoth	10	580 March 6 CE	date in text, consular dating;

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Literature

DatasetID	310339
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	15312
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.muench;1;3
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310339 (= Pap. London, British Library Pap 1799), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.