Pap. London, British Library Pap 1805

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Collection

Inventory Number	Pap. London, British Library Pap 1805
Publication Number	P.Lond. V 1719
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 556 and
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	broken at left and bottom, fragments missing

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 left and bottom
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, byzantine cursive, hand unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	19+y
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

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	Paam, a priest, and Paulos owe the sum of five solidi to an unknown man. Paam's share of the debt is four solidi and he undertakes to repay it within the same month (Mecheir), apparently without interest. Paulos promises to repay by the month of Epeiph, five months later, at an interest rate of 12% per annum. The jewelry pledged as security includes two pendants of a gold earring, probably one acquired by Paulos' daughter Maria seven years earlier (P. Lond. V 1720). P. Lond. V 1721 belongs together with P.Lond. V 1719 and 1720 and perhaps the creditor there, whose name is missing, is the same as the Syenian here.(Farber/Porten)
Location of Composition	Dios Polis (Thebes East) Upper Egypt, 4th nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	ok translation J. J. Farber in Pap.Eleph.Eng. (1996) D26
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man Woman
Religion	Christianity
Comment on Religion	Christogramm

Text

Transcription

Translation

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1	† ὑπατείας Φλαουίου Βασι̣λεί̣ο(υ) τ̣ο(ῦ) ἐνδοξοτάτου Μεχεὶ̣ρ̣ ̣
2	τῆς τετάρτης ἰν̣δικτίονος.
3	Αὐρήλιος Πααμ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ὁ εὐλαβέστατος πρεσβύτερος τῆς ἁγίας ἐ̣κκ̣λ̣η̣σίας
4	Κάστρου -?- Παῦλος ἀ̣πὸ̣ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Κάστρου
5	-?- ̣ ̣λι̣ῳ υἱῷ Ψας ̣ ̣ Ζ̣υηνιτης ¹ l. Συηνίτῃ ἀπὸ
6	Κάστρου(?) Μεμνονί̣ων τοῦ Ἑρμωνθίτου νομοῦ χαίρειν.
7	ὁμολογοῦμεν ἔχειν καὶ χρεωστεῖν σοι εἰς̣ ἔκτισιν καὶ ἀπόδωσιν ² l. ἀπόδοσι
8	χρυσο(ῦ) δοκίμο(υ) εἰ̣ς ἀριθμὸν νομισμάτ̣ων πέντε, Πααμ μὲν
9	ὁ προγεγρ(αμμένος) πρεσβύτερος νομίσματα τέσσερ[α] ³ l. τέσσαρα εἰληφοτι ⁴l. εἰληφὼς ἐν τῷ Μεχεὶρ
10	μηνὶ τῆς τετά̣ρ̣της ἰνδικτίονος, Παῦλος δὲ νόμισμα ἓν
11	εἰληφὼς ἐν τῷ Ἐπεὶφ μηνὶ ἀρχῇ πέμπτης ἰνδικτίονος μετὰ τῆς
12	αὐτο(ῦ) φιλοτιμείας ⁵ l. [φιλ]οτιμίας τοῦτʼ ἔστι τάλαντα δ̣ισχίλεια ⁶l. δισχίλια τετρακόσια
13	καὶ εἰς μείζονά σου ἀσφάλειαν ὑπο̣τιθέμεθά σοι ἐν τα
14	̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ς̣ λόγῳ καὶ ὑποθήκῃ τὸ ὑπάρχον ἡμῖν χειροψέλλιο̣ν
15	χρυσοῦν̣ καὶ ἐνωτίου χρυσον ⁷ l. χρυσοῦ πτύ̣χι(?)α δύο καὶ ταῦτα εἶναι
16	ὑπὸ τὴν σὴν ἀκώλυτον δεσποτείαν εἶναι μέχρι ἀποδώ-
17	σεως ⁸ l. ἀποδό\|[σεως]καὶ συμπληρώσεως τα ⁹ l. τῶν προκειμένων χρεα ¹⁰ l. χρεῶν σὺν τόκοις
18	̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ κ̣α̣ὶ̣ εἰς σὴ̣ν̣ ἀ̣σφάλ̣ειαν τ̣ο(ῦ)το πεπ̣οιή-
19	μεθα τὸ γραμματεῖον -?-
19+y	-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

¹ l. Συηνίτῃ
² l. ἀπόδοσι
³ l. τέσσαρα
⁴ l. εἰληφὼς
⁵ l. [φιλ]οτιμίας
⁶ l. δισχίλια
⁷ l. χρυσοῦ
⁸ l. ἀποδό|[σεως]
⁹ l. τῶν
¹⁰ l. χρεῶν

1	† In the year after the consulship of the most honorable Flavius Basilius, on Mecheir ?,
2	in the fourth indiction,
3	the Aurelians Paam ---, most scrupulous priest of the holy church
4	of Fort --- and Paulos, from the same Fort,
5	to --- -lios son of Psas---, a Syenian from
6	Fort Memnonion of the Hermonfhite nome, greetings.
7	We acknowledge that we have and owe to you as recompense and repayment,
8	genuine gold to the number of five solidi, Paam,
9	the aforesaid elder, who has received four solidi in the month of Mecheir
10	in the fourth indiction, and Paulos, who will receive one solidus,
11	in the month of Epeiph in the beginning of the fifth indiction, with the
12	honorarium of it. This is two thousand four hundred talents.
13	And for your greater security we mortgage to you here,
14	as pledge and mortgage, the gold armlet belonging to us
15	and two pendants of a gold earring. And this is
16	under your unfettered ownership until payment
17	and satisfaction of the aforementioned debts with their interests.
18	--- and for your security we have made this
19	note ---
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Places (read out from edition)

Μεμνον (places.xml#50)

ί̣ων (places.xml#50)

Ἑρμωνθου (places.xml#5)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
32200	man	Aurelius Paam, priest of the church of the castrum	Αὐρήλιος Πααμ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣	Coptic

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Basilius		Mecheir		556 January 26 CE 556 February 24 CE	date in text, consular dating, indiction 4, Basilius cos.;

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Literature

DatasetID	310437
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	19734
Papyri.info	ddbdp/p.lond;5;1719
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310437 (= Pap. London, British Library Pap 1805), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer.