OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

P.Col.VII 182-184; P.Mert. I 37; P.NYU 24 - all belonging to the Karanis archive and having to do with Aurelia Tetoueis

Size:

27 x 8.5 cm.

Lines:

21

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

Late 374 A.D.

Origin:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Aurelia Tetoueis

Title / Type of text:

Loan of wheat

Content:

Contract for a loan of wheat from Aurelia Cottine to Aurelia Tetoueis.

Subjects:

Loan Contract Wheat, Deed Illiteracy

Named people:

Aurelia Tetoueis, daughter of Hatres and Tapaeis Aurelia Cottine, daughter of Ammon Aurelius Asammon, son of Harpokrammon Paulus Gratianus, emperor and consul Flavius Equitius, consul

Named places:

Karanis Phremei, quarter in Karanis

English translation:

In the third year of the consulship of our sovereigns, the eternal Augustus Gratianus and the most illustrious Flavius Equitius, [month], 21st. Aurelia Tetoueis, daughter of Hatres, her mother being Tapaeis, from the village of Karanis, acknowledges to Aurelia Cottine, [daughter of Ammon, from the qua]rter Phremei, that she, the consenting party, has received from her, and has had measur[ed a loan in kind] of [forty] and a half [artabas] of pure wheat, with an increase of 50 per cent (sc. on repayment), total forty and a half artabas. These she shall repay, by the four-choinix measure, to Cottine, without fail, in the month Pauni of the fourth indiction at the city: in case of claims arising Cottine to have the right of execution on the consenting party, Tetoueis, and on all her property as though by legal decision; and in reply to the formal question she consented. (2. hand) I, Aurelia Tetoueis, have received the forty and a half artabas of pure wheat, with increase of fifty per cent, and I will repay them as outlined above. I, Aurelius Asammon, son of Harpokrammon, have written on her behalf, she being illiterate. (1. hand) (Drawn up) by me, Paulus.

Provenance:

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased 1923 through British Museum, with M. Nahman as the dealer. Cf. the reports and the inventory list by H. I. Bell

Acquisition year:

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Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 38
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Wegener EP, JEA 23 (1937) p.211 (ll.21-22)
• Youtie HC, TAPA 83, 1952, 117
  SB: VI 9311
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Lewis N, Studi Calderini-Paribeni 2 (1957) p.322 (l.1,6) Youtie HC, Scriptiunculae I (1973) 255 (l.6) Bagnall R-Worp KA, Chronological systems of Byzantine Egypt (1978), p. 113 (date) Bagnall R-Worp KA, BASP 17 (1980) p. 110 (l.1,2) Diethart JM-Worp KA, Byz.Not. (1986) p.46 (l.21)

Further Literature

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