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Title Redemption of a deposit
Citations
Inv. Id O. MedinHabuCopt 2415
Support/Dimensions ostracon ;
Condition On brown ribbed pottery with traces of black pitch coating inside
Lines On recto: 18 lines in Coptic
Recto/Verso Source of description: On recto: loan document
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 70 in Stefanski's and Lichtheim's publication. Undated. Measurements not available. The unknown word in line 9, ''aser,'' perhaps means ''coverlet.'' 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 Petemout; Jeme; Receipt; Deposit; Documentary; ostracon
Associated Names Pia, daughter of Pelatos; Pegosh, son of Manasseh; Jeremiah, son of Samuel; Daniel
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

MH 2415, recto: (2) I, Pia, (3) daughter of Pelatos, (4) the woman of Petemout, (5) write to Pegosh, son of (6) Manasseh, the man of Jeme, saying: (7) Seeing that I deposited securities (8) with you, namely twenty-two (9) articles of --- and fifteen articles (10) of bronze utensils, behold now (11) you have given them (back) to me. I have no further business (12) with you, nor has any child of mine. I, Pia, (13) daughter of Pelatos, assent to everything (14) written on this sherd. I, (15) Jeremiah, son of Samuel, [wrote (16) this sherd] on the eighteenth (17) of Paone, under (18) Daniel.