Pap. London, British Library Pap 1794

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

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

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

Modern Title	Acknowledgement of debt
Ancient Archives	private archive \| Patermouthis
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
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

Transcription

Translation

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

¹ l. ἀπόδοσιν
² l. ὅπερ
³ l. χρεωστουμένου
⁴ l. χρέους

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

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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)

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

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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.