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Pap. London, British Library Pap 1794

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. London, British Library Pap 1794
Publication Number P.Lond. V 1721
Current Location London, British Library
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) de Rustafjaell, Robert
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 542 and 543
Criteria for Dating ? Archive of Patermouth. ???
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at top and bottom

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) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at top and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, byzantine cursive
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+12+y
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Acknowledgement of debt
Ancient Archives private archive | Patermouthis
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | contract
Summary of Content NN records a half-solidus increase in his pre-existing debt to NN and indicates his readiness to pay it by Payni Since he describes it as interest, perhaps it is in lieu of an interest payment which he missed. The document belongs together with P. Lond. V 1719 and P. Lond. V 1720 and perhaps the creditor here is the same as the Syenian in the former one. (Farber/Porten)
Location of Composition Thebes Upper Egypt, 4th nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Comments on Text ok translation J. J. Farber in Pap.Eleph.Eng. (1996) D27
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
R
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1 -?- ὁμολογῶ
x+2ἔχειν καὶ̣ χρεωστεῖν σ̣ο̣ι̣ εἰς ἔκ-
x+3τισιν̣ κ̣αὶ ἀπόδωσιν 1 l. ἀπόδοσιν χρυσοῦ
x+4δ̣οκ̣ίμο̣υ κεφαλαίου ε̣ἰ̣ς ἀρι-
x+5θμὸν νομισματίου ἡμίσου̣ς
x+6γίνεται χ χρυσοῦ νομισματίου (ἥμισυ), ὑπερ 2l. ὅπερ ἑτο̣ίμως ἔ̣χ̣ω
x+7παρασχεῖν σοι ὑπὲρ φιλοτ̣ιμί-
x+8α̣ς τοῦ χρεωστουμενος 3 l. χρεωστουμένου σοι
x+9παρʼ ἐμοῦ χρέως 4 l. χρέους ἐν τῷ μηνὶ
x+10Π̣α̣ῧνι τῆς παρούσης ἕκτης
x+11νδικτίωνος ἀναμφιλό-
x+12γως κ̣αὶ πρὸς σὴν ἀσφά̣λ̣ειαν
x+12+y - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

1 l. ἀπόδοσιν
2 l. ὅπερ
3 l. χρεωστουμένου
4 l. χρέους
R
x- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x+1I acknowledge that
x+2I have and owe to you for
x+3recompense and repayment of
x+4genuine gold in capital to the num-
x+5ber of half a solidus,
x+6= gold 1/2 solidus, which I am ready
x+7to provide to you, as interest
x+8on the debt owed to you
x+9by me, in the month
x+10of Payni in the present sixth
x+11indiction, without dis-
x+12pute. And for your security ---
x+12+y - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
BLpapyrus_1794_R_001
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8060 not applicable (No persons mentioned in the [preserved] text) (No persons mentỈoned Ỉn the [preserved] text) (none)

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
542 CE 543 CE date incertain: alternative date: 557-558?;

 

Pictures

BLpapyrus_1794_R_001
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Literature

 

DatasetID 310436
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 19736
Papyri.info ddbdp/p.lond;5;1721
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 310436 (= Pap. London, British Library Pap 1794), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.