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Catalog Record: michigan.apis.6509 [xml]

Title Cession of Residential property
Author Unknown
Summary A woman sells her house and describes its structures and the properties of its neighborhood.
Citations Todd M. Hickey, Joseph G. Manning, A Roman-Period Cession of Presidential Property from Soknopaiou Nesos: in F. Hoffmann - H.J Thissen, Res Severa verum Gaudium. Festschrift fuer Karl-Theodor Zauzic zum 65. Geburtstag am 8. Juni 2004, 13-14, 2004, Pl. XVII
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 6174
Support/Dimensions 2 papyri ; 1.9 x 2.5; 4.3 x 4.3 cm
Lines A: 6 Lines;B: 12 Lines
Recto/Verso Source of description: A; B
Hands These fragments contain the remains of five lines of demotic text as well as eight lines of Greek from the hopographie (abstract) for a transfer of house property. The texts are written with the fibers, and the hand of the demotic text is very close or identical to the one in 6168. There are several other indications that 6168 and 6174a+b were once part of the same text
Origin Herakleides division; Arsinoite nome; provenance of Egypt
More from Herakleides division; Arsinoite nome; provenance of Egypt
Language Demotic; Greek
Date July 4, 29 A.D.
More from the period between 29 CE and 30 CE
Note (general) Location: Cairo
Note (general) Pub. status: Recto; Verso is blank?
Note (related) +P.Mich.Inv. 6168; 6174c
Subjects Soknopaios; Documentary; Papyrus
Associated Names Herieus; HarpaȬsis; Tesenouphis, son of Hȳros
Images Recto medium
Images Recto large
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

. . . the daughter of Herieus, her mother being . . . of the two-storied house and courtyard . . . of which the neighbors - of the entire house and courtyard ��� are: on the south . . . of HarpaȬsis . . . on the west, the house of Tesenouphis, son of Hȳros, and his brothers . . . of Soknopaios the great god, which is separated from the property by an alley/ street, and I have received [. . . for all] time, and I shall fulfill the other provisions as written above [. . . PN, son of PN, wrote for her because] she is illiterate . . .