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Title Brieflicher Bericht über die Beilegung einer Streitigkeit
Publications SB 20 14987
More in series SBMore in series SB, vol. 20
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Post-Concordance BL Entries ; XI 234; XIII 223
Origin Oxyrhynchos
More from Oxyrhynchos
Material Papyrus
Date VI (?)
More from the period between 501 CE and 600 CE
Commentary Zur Datierung (IV - V ?) vgl. ZPE 155, 2006, S. 211, Anm. 11.
Subjects Brief (amtlich); Leontios an Theon; Beilegung eines Streits um Gräber; christlich; Gebet
Images http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2129...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 38527 [source]

Publications SB 20 14987 (Rupprecht, Hans-Albert / Hengstl, Joachim; 1997) = ZPE 75 (1988), p. 268- (Keenan, James G. / ; 1988)
Inv. no. Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 3999
Date AD 500 - 599?
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa)[found & written]
People mentioned people

Catalog Record: michigan.apis.2129 [xml]

Title Christian letter
Author Leontios
Summary Letter from Leontios to Theon, curialis, dealing with matters concerning the burial of corpses.
Citations Keenan JG, ZPE 75, 267-71, 1988 -- SB XX 14987 -- BL XI, 234 (l. 8)
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 3999
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 12 x 25 cm.
Condition Medium-brown papyrus rather regularly cut on all sides.
Lines 1-27
Recto/Verso Source of description: Recto + Verso
Hands Margins are small at top (0.8 cm.) and (until line 19) at the left (0.5 cm., discounting the vertical strip whose partial remains appear opposite lines 8-13. The prayer (lines 20-24) below the mu of medenos, the first word in l. 19 (therefore ca. 3.0 cm. from the papyrus' left edge; cf. similarly P. Ross. - Georg. III 9.21-24). Righthand margin is virtually non-existent. At line ends (cf. 5, 7, 11, 12, 24) sigmas are sometimes finished off as filler strokes brought out to the very right edge of the papyrus. The bottom margin (there is seemingly no more writing after line 25 on the front) is also, where it can be measured, small, 0.3-0.5 cm. In antiquity, on completion of the front-side text, written along the papyrus' fibers, the papyrus was apparently folded inward, lengthwise in thirds, from right to left. One indication of this is that the righthand third is considerably narrower than the middle and lefthand thirds. The result was a long (25 cm.), narrow (4 cm.) strip. The strip was then turned over and sideways, and inscribed, again along the fibers, again along the fibers, on the back of the lefthand third of the front-side text-another indication that the original folding went from right to left. The long, narrow strip was then itself folded in two, slightly off center, resulting in a packet ca. 4.4 cm. x 13.7 cm. On the packet's inside was preserved (rather well) the text of P. Mich. inv. 3999.Ironically, yet quite naturally, it is along the creases that created the protective packet that the principal losses to the text have occurred. The two lines of writing on the outside of the packet are badly abraded. ;The hand, which is apparently the same throughout, is very hard to place, since there appears to be no decisive parallels in any of the standard picture books. This is clearly not a professional notarial cursive. It is a fairly thick, careful hand, not at all inelegant; it lacks the extreme floridness and rightward slant typical of some later Byzantine hands. Diaeresis is used four times, and orthographical are usually (not invariably) simple itacisms (especially iota for epsilon-iota). An attempt at stylistic flair, the chiasmusbeginning at line 8, results in an anacoluthon, with nominatives taking over for expected accusatives at the end of line 11. These nominatives may also, perhaps, be viewed as survivors from the nominatives of the arbitrator's original pronouncement: "Let NN have . . ."
Origin Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt
More from Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt
Language Greek
Date VIth century A.D. (?)
More from the period between 500 CE and 599 CE
Note (general) Location: Ann Arbor
Note (general) Pub. status: Recto + Verso
Note (related) -
Subjects -; Documentary; Papyrus
Associated Names Theon, curialis, city father; Leontios; John; Eusebios; Didymos
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Citations

DDbDP transcription: sb.20.14987 [xml]

VI spc Oxyrhynchos

r
τῷ εὐλογο[υ]μένῳ καὶ ἀληθῶς ποθει-
νοτάτῳ υἱ[ῷ] Θέωνι πολιτευο̣μένῳ
πατρὶ πόλεως Λεόντιος ἐν Κ(υρί)ῳ χαίρειν.
Καθὼς̣ ἀπέστιλας(*) Ἰωάννην καὶ Εὐσέ-
5βιον καὶ Δίδυμον ἐπὶ τῷ αὐτοὺς
ἐπʼ ἐμοῦ κριθῆναι, νῦν εὖ ἀκούσας
τῆς ὑποθέσεως αὐτῶν, οὕτως
οὖν ὥρισα ὥστε Δίδυμον ἔχ̣ε̣ι̣[ν]
ὅλον τὸ μέ̣γα μνημῖον(*) παρ̣[ὰ]
10τὰ σώματα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ μικρὸν
μνημῖον̣(*) ἔχειν αὐτὸ οἱ τρῖς(*)
Ἰωάννης καὶ Εὐσέβιος καὶ Δίδυμος
ἐκ τρίτ[ου μ]έ̣[ρ]ο̣υς τοῦ ἑνός .
καὶ θ̣(εο)ῦ̣ π[ροενοή]θησαν οἱ τρῖς(*)
15Ἰωάνν̣[ης κα]ὶ Εὐσέβιος̣ καὶ Δίδυ-
μος ⁦ vac. ? ⁩ κ̣[αὶ ἀπ]ῆλθαν ἀπʼ ἐ̣μοῦ
πιθ̣ό̣μεν[οι](*) καὶ ηὔχοντο{ν} ἐπʼ ἀ<λ>-
λήλων ἐπ̣ὶ̣ ταύτῃ τῇ σήμ̣ερ[ον,]
μηδενὸς αὐτῶν λυπουμέ̣νου.
20ἡ θεῖα πρόνοια διαφυ-
λάξει σε ἐπὶ μήκιστον
χρόνον ὑγιαίνοντα
καὶ εὐθυμοῦντα ἐν
τῷ φόβῳ τοῦ θεοῦ
25[  ̣]   ̣  ̣ θ ⁦ vac. ? ⁩   ̣τ̣ατ̣α  ̣[  ̣]  ̣. v
ἐντεῖλαι Θεοδ̣ώ̣ρῳ α  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣τουρ  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣[  ̣]  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣υτου μετρίου   ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣
  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣το ἔργον α̣ὐ̣το̣ῦ̣   ̣  ̣ι̣  ̣ι̣ο̣ν̣   ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣[  ̣]ο̣υ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣

Apparatus


^ r.4. l. ἀπέστειλας
^ r.9. l. μνημεῖον
^ r.11. l. μνημεῖον
^ r.11. l. τρεῖς
^ r.14. l. τρεῖς
^ r.17. l. πειθ̣ό̣μεν[οι]

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APIS Translation (English)

(Lines 1-24): " To the blessed and truly dearest son, Theon, curialis, city father, from Leontion, greetings in the Lord.;Inasmuch as you sent John and Eusebios and Didymos for decision in my presence, now, upon having given their argument a fair hearing, I have decided as follows: that Didymos have all the great tomb for his corpses, and, as for the small tomb, that the three, John and Eusebios and Didymos, have it, each a third share of the one tomb. And the three, John and Eusebios and Didymos, took thought of God and they left me compliantly and prayed for one another this very day, no one of them showing any signs of annoyance.; May the divine foresight pro-; tect you for a very long; time, in health; and good spirits, in; the fear of God."