Pap. London, British Library Pap 1793 recto

Inventory Number	Pap. London, British Library Pap 1793 recto
Publication Number	P.Lond. V 1720
Current Location	London, British Library
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine / Syene () [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	purchase Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	de Rustafjaell, Robert Certainty:
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

Localization of Text on Object	recto/verso
Text-Localization, Addendum	1 line on verso parallel to fibres
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri)	parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments	type unclear monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	broken at bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Script, additional A	Coptic
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Language, additional B	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, byzantine cursive
Comments on Text Layout	One line of Greek text, evidently belonging to the text on recto, was written on the verso side of the papyrus, on the edge, parallel to the fibres.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	18+y	1
Quantity of Columns	1	1
Height of Line / Letter

Modern Title	Contract of loan of money
Ancient Archives	private archive \| Patermouthis
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary documentary \| contract
Summary of Content	Nonna had borrowed an unknown amount of money from Maria and had left a pair of earrings with her as security. She now sells them to Maria for 8 solidi in cash. The relationship between the original debt and the 8 solidi is not clear; Bell assumed that the purchase price for the earrings included, in addition to the 8 solidi, the original amount of the debt. Seven years after this transaction, Maria must have made over to her father Paulos two pendants from one of the earrings which he gave as part of a pledge for a loan of five solidi (P. Lond. V 1719.8, 15). The bottom of our document is missing but there is no reference in the preserved part to payment of the debt. (Farber/Porten)
Location of Composition	Thebais (nome of Thebes) Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok translation J. J. Farber in Pap.Eleph.Eng. (1996) D24
Multilingualism	Script = Language Monolingual
Gender	Woman
Comment on Gender	woman as contractant
Religion	Christianity
Comment on Religion	christian names

Transcription

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1	μετὰ τὴν ὑπατείαν Φλαυίου Βασιλείου
2	τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου Μεχεὶρ θ τῆς δωδεκά̣τ̣ης
3	ἰνδικτίονος.
4	Α̣ὐρηλία Νόννα θυγάτηρ Τσαβίνου
5	ὁρμωμένη ἀπὸ Κάστρου Κεραμέως
6	τοῦ Θηβαίου νομοῦ Αὐρηλίᾳ Μαρίᾳ
7	θυγατρὶ Παύλου ἀπὸ Κάστρου Μεμνονίων
8	τοῦ Ἑρμωνθίτου νομοῦ χαίρειν. ἀντὶ τοῦ
9	ἐνωτίου χρυσοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ ζυγοῦ ἑνὸς
10	ἐ̣μοῦ̣ τοῦ ὄντος παρὰ σοῦ εἰς λόγον ὑπο-
11	θηκην ¹ l. ὑπο\|θήκης ὑπὲρ φανερο(ῦ) χρ̣έους χρεωστου-
12	μενος ² l. χρεωστου\|μένου σοι παρʼ ἐμοῦ κατὰ τοῦτο ὁμολογῶ
13	τὴν τουτον ³ l. τούτου τελείαν τιμὴν αὐτόθι
14	ἀπεσχον ⁴ l. ἀπεσχηκέναι παρὰ σοῦ ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ ἅτινα
15	χρυσοῦ νομίσματα ὀκτώ. ἑκων ⁵ l. ἑκοῦσα οὖν
16	καὶ πεπεισμενος ⁶ l. πεπεισμένη ἀπηλλάχθην
17	πρὸς σὲ καὶ μηκέττι ⁷ l. μηκέτι μηδένα λόγον
18	ἔχειν πρὸς σὲ περὶ̣ το̣ύτου ἀλλʼ ἐξουσίαν
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¹ l. ὑπο|θήκης
² l. χρεωστου|μένου
³ l. τούτου
⁴ l. ἀπεσχηκέναι
⁵ l. ἑκοῦσα
⁶ l. πεπεισμένη
⁷ l. μηκέτι

1	(hand 2?) ἀπ̣οταγὴ γεναμένη Α̣ὐρηλίας Νοννα η ¹ l. Νόννας τῆς Τσαβίνου -?-

¹ l. Νόννας τῆς

1	In the year after the consulship of Flavius Basilius,
2	the most honorable, on Mecheir 9, in the twelfth
3	indiction.
4	Aurelia Nonna daughter of Tsabinos,
5	originating from Fort Kerameos
6	of the Theban nome, to Aurelia Maria
7	daughter of Paulos, from Fort Memnonion
8	of the Hermonthite nome, greetings. In return for
9	one pair of Greek style earrings of gold,
10	being mine but in your hands as a mort-
11	gage for a certain debt
12	owed to you by me, I acknowledge in accordance with this (document) that
13	I have received for it the full price there
14	from you for it, which is
15	gold, eight solidi. Willingly, therefore,
16	and convinced, I have been reconciled
17	with you and I no longer
18	have any claim against you concerning this, but authority ---
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1	Renunciation done by Aurelia Nonna daughter of Tsabinos.

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Places (read out from edition)

Θηβαίου (places.xml#172)

Μεμνονίων (places.xml#50)

Ἑρμωνθίτου (places.xml#5)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
30980	woman	Aurelia Maria, daughter of Paulus	Αὐρηλίᾳ Μαρίᾳ θυγατρὶ Παύλου	Latin

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Basilius		Mecheir	09	549 February 3 CE	date in Greek text; year incertain post consulate of Basilius, ind. 12 alternative date: 4. Febr. 564;

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DatasetID	310435
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	19735
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.lond;5;1720
Author	Andrea Hasznos, Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310435 (= Pap. London, British Library Pap 1793 recto), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos, Ruth Duttenhöfer.