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Title Loan promise
Citations
Inv. Id O. MedinHabuCopt 2403
Support/Dimensions ostracon ;
Condition On brown ribbed pottery
Lines On recto: 21 lines in Coptic
Recto/Verso Source of description: On recto: loan document
Hands Note the doubling of initial M and N in ''Michaias'' in lines 1 and 12.
Origin Thebes
More from Thebes
Language Coptic
Date VIIth - VIIIth century A.D.
More from the period between 600 CE and 799 CE
Note (general) Number 58 in Stefanski's and Lichtheim's publication. Undated. Measurements not available. Michaias, son of Enoch, named in this document is probably identical with the man named in MH 2416 (number 60 in Stefanski's and Lichtheim's publication). Pekosh, son of Kouloje, named in this document may be the ara of Jeme named in MH 2414 (number 59), as well as Pekosh, son of Manasseh, of MH 2416 (number 60). The mosne, in line 7, is perhaps equal to one third of an artaba or four maje. For field reference, see Hoelscher OIP 21, pl. 32. All ostraca in this volume were on loan from the Egyptian government and had been returned to Egypt by the time of publication.
Note (general) Location: Oriental Institute
Note (general) Pub. status: Published: recto
Subjects Terkot; Ermont; Loan; Documentary; ostracon
Associated Names Michaias, son of Enoch; Pekosh, son of Kouloje; Moses, deacon of the Holy Church of Terkot
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

MH 2403, recto: (1) I, Michaias, (2) son of Enoch, the man of (3) Terkot, in the district of Ermont, (4) write to Pekosh, son (5) of Kouloje, saying: By the will of God, (6) I owe you one gold tremis, (7) complete, and one mosne of sesame (8) as interest on it; and I shall give it to you (9) in Paone of the fifth (year) without any (10) objection to it. I am prepared to give it (11) to you according as I have written above. I, (12) Michaias, son of Enoch, assent (13) to this sherd and everything written therein. (14) I have drawn it up as an assurance for you in whatsoever place (15) it shall be displayed by (16) any man. I, Moses, (17) the humblest deacon of the (18) Holy Church of Terkot, (19) he requested me and (20) I wrote for him, because he does not know how (21) to write, on the...