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Papyrus 3114

Record Id:

040-003724708

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100111639955.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147471856.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 3114

Title:

Documents from the Archive of Aurelius Phoebammon son of Triadelphus (P.Michael. 47, 49, 57, 59; TM 21423, 37344, 37351, 37352, 37354)

Scope & Content:

A (P.Michael. 49, TM 37344): Fragment of a receipt of rent; the parties are the church of Antaiopolis, represented by Psaios (lessor), and Aurelius Phoebammon son of Triadelphus (lessee); the summary is on the back. Dated in 548.

B (P.Michael. 59, TM 37354): Conclusion of a lease of land, the lessor being Aurelius Phoebammon son of Triadelphus, and the lessees a certain Musaeus and Psaios son of Victor. Dated between 563 and 572. With subscriptions of the lessees written by someone else, of a witness and of the notary Cyrus, and with endorsement on the back.

C: Recto (P.Michael. 57 ro., TM 37351): Conclusion of a contract of sale from the mid 6th-mid 7th century; with subscription of the witnesses (Paulus, bother of Phoebammon, son of Triadelphus), and of the vendors. Unpublished.

Verso (P.Michael. 57 vo., TM 37352): Conclusion of a contract of uncertain nature of the first half of the 7th century; with subscription of the notary Andreas.

D (P.Michael. 47, TM 21423): Fragment of a contract for the lease of land; the lessee is Daueit, son of Syrion, and the lessor Aurelius Phoebammon, son of Triadelphus. Dated between 1 May and 14 November 570.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-003724708

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 3114 : Documents from the Archive of Aurelius Phoebammon son of Triadelphus (P.Michael. 47, 49, 57, 59; TM 21423, 37344, 37351, 37352, 37354)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[2052]/040-003724708

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Four papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.

A: Medium-brown papyrus fragment, damaged by abrasion in places, broken off at the top and bottom, complete on the sides; written on both sides; on the front, there are 8 lines written along the fibres, with side margins minimal; on the back, there is one line running along the fibres.

B: Dark-brown papyrus fragment, made of two pieces, of which the right-hand piece (35 mm wide) displays horizontal fibres, the left-hand one vertical fibres (front); broken off at the top and left, complete on the right and at the bottom; with writing on both sides; on the front, there are 13 lines written across the fibres (the ends run along the fibres on the right sheet), with lower and right margins minimal; on the back, there are two lines written across the fibres.

C: Medium-brown papyrus fragment, broken off at the top and left; written on both sides; on the front, there are 7 lines running across the fibres and lacking the beginnings; right and lower margins minimal; on the back, there are 3 lines written along the fibres, with ample lower margin.

D: Medium-to-dark-brown papyrus fragment with several detached pieces at the bottom; broken off on the left, severely damaged along the folds; 14 lines lacking the beginnings, and traces of 4 other lines at the bottom. The back is blank.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0550

End Date:

0650

Date Range:

mid 6th century-mid 7th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: A: 80 x 130 mm; B: 149 x 88 mm; C: 111 x 136 mm; D: 184 x 70 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 460 x 330 mm.

Script: A: Squarish and large hand, more cursive in places; B: Rapid, sloping cursive hand; two different hands for the subscriptions in lines 7-11; C: Rapid cursive hands, mostly sloping; D: Competent, small, sloping cursive hand.

Custodial History:

Origin: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt.

Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt.

Acquired with other Michaelides material, including Papyri 3100-3131, in April 1979 and transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books in May 1979. Formerly part of the private collection of Georges Anastase Michaelides (b. 1900, d. 1973), antiquities dealer in Cairo, sold by his heirs after his death, under the inventory number 1408.

Former External References:

P.Michael. 47
P.Michael. 49
P.Michael. 57
P.Michael. 59

Publications:

David S. Crawford, Papyri Michaelidae: being a catalogue of the Greek and Latin papyri, tablets and ostraca in the library of Mr. G.A. Michaïlidis of Cairo (Aberdeen: The Aberdeen University Press, for the Egypt Exploration Society 1955), pp. 114-15, no. 49.

Jean-Luc Fournet, ‘Sur les premiers documents juridiques coptes (2): Les archives de Phoibammônet de Kollouthos’, in Seizièmes journées d’études coptes, Jun 2013, Genève, Suisse. Études coptes XIV (Paris: de Boccard 2016), pp. 115-41 (p. 131 no. 30).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 130.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 211.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 122.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009), p. 119.

James G. Keenan, ‘Aurelius Phoibammon, son of Triadelphus: a Byzantine Egyptian land entrepreneur’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 17 (1980), 145-54 (passim).

Roger S. Bagnall, Klaas A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt, 2nd ed. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004), p. 95, n. 28.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Aurelius Phoebammon, 6th century

Places:

Kôm Ishgau, Egypt; the site of Aphrodito

Related Material:

The papyri belong to the ‘Archive of Phoibammon son of Triadelphos’ (TM Arch ID 193).