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Title Sowing contract
Citations
Inv. Id O. MedinHabuCopt 282
Support/Dimensions ostracon ;
Condition On red pottery with a reddish slip
Lines On recto: 12 lines in Coptic
Recto/Verso Source of description: On recto: contract
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 81 in Stefanski's and Lichtheim's publication. Undated. Measurements not available. Lichtheim thinks the intended word in line 5 is ''hetairia.'' The phrase ''for you'' in line 8 is expected, but difficult to read. 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 Jeme; Sowing; Contract; Documentary; ostracon
Associated Names son of Joseph; Isaac, son of Zechariah
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

MH 282, recto: (1) With God. (2) The Council of the Monastery... (3) on the mountain of Jeme [write to]... (4) son of Joseph, the men of... (5) to you for the joint working(?) of the earth... (6) and you shall sow it in the sowing... (7) and you shall sow it for half of the... (8) which God will bring forth, half for you, (9) half for the holy topos... (10) For your assurance, then, I have drawn up this... (11) Written on the fourth of Mesore, third indiction. I... (12) I, Isaac,son of Zechariah, they...