OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

22.6 x 10.9 cm.

Lines:

28

Publication side:

Recto; the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The document has been cancelled by cross-strokes.

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

September 28 - October 27, 156 A.D.

Origin:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Tabous, daughter of Pappion

Title / Type of text:

Loan of money with antichresis

Content:

The document is a contract between two women,Tabous and Aretiaina, for the loan of 176 drachmas, to be repaid with interest the following year. Cancellation of the document by the usual cross-strokes indicates that the money was duly returned.

Subjects:

Contract Loan (antichretic) Debt Interest Woman

Named people:

Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, emperor Tabous, daughter of Pappion Pappion, son of Maron Ammonius, son of Achillas and husband of Tabous Aretiaina, daughter of Areios Heraclas, son of Cronion

Named places:

Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome

English translation:

The twentieth year of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius, in the month Phaophi ... at Tebtynis in the division of Polemon of the Arsinoite nome. Tabous, daughter of Pappion, son of Maron, citizen, aged about 25 years, having a scar on her forehead, with her guardian, her husband Ammonius son of Achillas, aged about 30 years, having a scar on his left (hand?), acknowledges to Aretiaina,daughter of Areios, aged about 30 years, with no distinguishing mark, with her guardian, her maternal cousin Heraclas son of Cronion, aged about 32 years, having no distinguishing mark, that she has received from her, Aretiaina, a loan of the capital sum of 176 silver drachmas bearing interest at the rate of one drachma per mina, repayment of which shall be made by us to Aretiaina in the month Thoth of the coming twenty-first year without fail. But if she does not pay, Aretiaina shall be permitted to sow and gather for her own use the crops from (the time of delivery?) upon ...arura(s) of private land ... and Aretiaina shall have the right of execution upon Tabous and all her property as if in accordance with legal decision. (Second hand) I, Tabous, daughter of Pappion, with my guardian, my husband Ammonius, have received from Aretiaina a loan of 176 silver drachmas, which I will repay in the month Thoth of the twenty-first year as aforesaid.Signature of P ... on behalf of Tabous and the other persons. (Third hand) Docket of the record office at Tebtynis.

Provenance:

Probably Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from M. Nahman, Cairo, Feb 18, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eliassen M de Kat, SO 51, 1976, 150-154
  SB: XIV 12017

Further Literature

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