Oxyrhynchus Papyri

THE

OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI PART XIV GRENFELL AND HUNT

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OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI PART XIV EDITED IVITH TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES BY

BERNARD

P.

GRENFELL,

D.Litt.

PROFESSOR OF PAPYROLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, AND FELLOW OF QUEEN's COLLEGE FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY

AND

ARTHUR

S.

HUNT,

D.Litt.

PROFESSOR OF PAPYROLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, AND FELLOW OF QUEEN'S CULLEGE FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY

WITH THREE PLATES

LONDON SOLD AT

The

Offices of the

EGYPT EXPLORATION SOCIETY, AND

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HUMPHREY MILFORD, Amen KEGAN

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PREFACE The

150 texts in the present volume are all non-literary documents, like those in Part XII. They comprise (a) two sections. Contracts and Private Accounts, for which there was not space in that volume these papyri being

chiefl)'

from the excavations of 1904-6

;

{8)

some

number of

private letters, nearl}" all from the excavations of 1897. Their range is from the second century B.C. to the end of the fourth century, third-century papyri predominating. official

documents

;

(^)

a

Facsimiles are given of some dated contracts belonging to the middle decades of the first century b. c, a period which is still very sparsely In the interpretation of the contracts and represented by papyri. official

documents we are much indebted

assistance of Prof

Part

generous and valuable

to the

M. Rostowzew^

XV, which

is

in

and

active preparation

will

be somewhat

include in the literary section some larger than the present volume, new lyric fragments and hexameters, and a papyrus giving a series of will

biographies of Thucydides, Demosthenes, Aeschines, and others. Fragments of Sophocles, Trachiniae, Plato, Republic, Isocrates, Upos Ari\idviKov^

The non-literary century) have been identified. documents illustrate the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries, and include and Theocritus

(first

a second instalment (the first was in Part I) of the Oxyrh) nchus papyri In editing these in the Cairo Museum from the 1897 excavations.

Mr. H.

I.

Bell

is

collaborating with us.

Mr.

J.

de M. Johnson's edition

of the long Theocritus papyrus from Antinoopolis

BERNARD

ARTHUR Queen's Collkge, 0.\ford,

November, 1919.

is

also in preparation.

P. S.

GRENFELL. HUNT.

CONTENTS Preface List of Plates

....... .............

............

Table of Papyri Note on the Method of Publication and List of Abbreviations

.

.

.

PAGE v vii viii

xii

TEXTS I.

Contracts (1626-49): {a) Contracts with Officials {l>)

(c) {(f)

(1626-7)

Leases (1628-32) Sales and Cessions (1633-6) Divisions of Property (1637-8)

a

.

.

45

Loans (1639-41) (/) Appointments of Representatives (1642-3) (g) Settlements of Claims and Receipts (1644-6) (//)

(?)

IL

IV. V.

VL

65 72

78 81

Apprenticeship (1647) Abstracts of Contracts (1648-9) .

Private Accounts (1650-8) {a) Accounts of Transport (1650-2) (i) Miscellaneous Accounts (1653-6) :

{c)

IIL

56

.

(e)

Lists

90 95 102

(1657-8)

Taxing-accounts (1659-60) Official Correspondencf, (1661-2) Private Correspondence (1663-84)

104

.

Minor Documents (1685-1777) (i) Leases

115 117

:

(1685-95) and Cessions (1696-1709) Loans and Deposits (1710-14)

147

.

(2) Sales

152

(3)

161

163

(1715-20)

(4) Receipts

(5) Miscellaneous Contracts (6) Abstracts of Contracts (7) Private

(9) Taxation

and

(10) Orders for (11) Private

...

Official

167 168

(1724-5)

Accounts (1726-40)

(8) Lists (1741-2)

165

(1721-3)

.

174

Accounts (1743-50)

Payment (1751-4) Correspondence (1755-77)

'74 179

.

.

I

So

TABLE OF PAPYRI asterisk denotes texts not printed in fnll)

(An

DATE 1626.

Payment

1627.

Appointment

for

Superintendence of Transport

1629.

to a Liturgy Lease of Catoecic Land (Plate Lease of Caioecic Land (Plate

1630

Lease of Land

1631.

Contract

1G32.

Fruit-garden Lease of a Palni-grove

1633.

Bid

1634.

Sale of

1635.

Cession of Catoecic

1628.

for

.

.

i)

an increased Rent

at

Labour

t(»i

.

i)

in a

\'ineyard and Lease of a

Purchase of Land from the Stale

Mortgaged House-property

Land

(Plate

.

ii)

Land

1636.

Cession of

1637.

Division of

1638.

Division of an Inheritance

1639. 1641.

Advance for Wheat Paymeni Loan of Wheat Loan with Right of Habiiaiion

1642.

Apj)ointnicnt of a Representative and Instruction

1643.

Appointment of

1640.

Landed Property .

....

in

(Plate

1645.

a Representative Settlement of Claims (Plate ii) Receipt for Personal Effects

1646.

Receipts for

1647.

1648.

Appreniiceship to a Weaver Abstracts of Contracts, &c.

1649.

Abstracts of Contracts

1644.

1650. 1650 1651.

1652.

{a).

iii)

.

.

Rem .

Accounts of Freight

to

Memphis

Account of Freight Accounts of Transport

1653.

Account of a Steward

1654. 1655.

Account of Notarial Expenses Paker's Account

1656.

Account of Food

.

....

TABLE OF PAPYRI

IX

DATE

PAGE

1657.

List of Utensils

Late 3rd cent.

[02

1658.

List of Articles

4th cent.

[O3

1659.

Account of Crown-lax

218-21

[O4

1660.

Account of Taxes

1661.

1662.

Kind

in

4th cent.

14

Letter to a Dioecetes

74

15 16

1663.

Letter of

Appointment of a Deputy-prytanis Recommendation

246 2nd or 3rd

1664.

Letter to a

3rd cent.

17 18

1665.

Letter of a Gymnasiarch Letter of Pausanias concerning a Recruit

3rd cent.

20

1666.

3rd cent.

21

1667.

Letter of Dorion to

3rd cent.

23

1668.

Letter of

1669.

Gymnasiarch

.

.

Charmus

Apion to

Sopatrus Letter of Horion to Serenus

.

1670.

Letter of Palex to Chinthonis

1671.

Letter of Dionysius to Zoilus

1672.

Letter to Pausanias from his two Sons

1673.

Letter of

.

Hermes to Sarapiacus Theon to his Son Apollonius .

1674.

Letter of

1675.

Letter to Ischyrion

1676. 1677.

....

cent.

3rd cent.

24

3rd cent.

25 26

3rd cent. 3rd cent.

28

37-41 2nd cent.

30

3rd cent.

[32

29

.

3rd cent.

33

Letter of Flavius Herculanus to Aplonarion

3rd cent.

'34

Letter of Agathus to Aphrodite Letter of Theon to his Mother

.

3rd cent.

[36

1678.

.

3rd cent.

537

1679.

Letter of Apia to Serapias

1680.

Letter to Apollo from his

1681.

Letter of

1682.

Letter of Heraclides to Antiochia

1683.

Letter of Probus to Manatine

1684.

Letter of

1685.

Lease of Land

1686.

Lease of Land

1687.

Lease of Land

Ammonias

Horion

1688.

Lease of Land

1689.

Lease of Land

to

Son

to Julius

.

and Hilarus

Timotheus

.

.

.

.

.

*ie90.

Lease of Land

1691.

Lease of Land

1692.

Contract for Labour in a Vineyard Lease of a Courtyard

1693.

.

.

3rd cent. Late 3rd or 4th cent.

41

4th cent.

'43

Late

cent.

44

Late 4th cent.

[46

4tl)

158

.

165

.

47

184

.

[48

47

3rd cent.

[48

266

[48

.

287

[49

291 188

[49 .

[50

Late 3rd cent.

[50 [50

Lease of House-property Lease of House-property

280

1696.

Sale of a Courtyard

197

.

40

3rd cent.

1695.

1694.

39

360

.

.

152

TABLE OF PAPYRI

TABLE OF PAPYRI

XI

PAGE

D.ATE

'173

1738.

Account of Timber

1739.

Account of Colours

1740.

Account of Implements, &c.

Late 3rd or 4th cent.

1741.

List of Clothes

.

Early 4th cent.

.

1742.

List of Articles

.

4th cent.

.

.

221-2

...

1743.

.

3rd cent.

.

2nd or early 3rd

Land-survey

list

1744.

Land-survey

list

1745.

List of Land-holders

1746.

Account of Seed-corn

.

287-8.? .

Persons Requisitioned

.

.

cent.

Early 3rd cent.

.

.

4th cent.

.

.176

.

1747.

List of

1748.

1749.

Account of Donkey-drivers Account of Transport

1750.

Receipt for

1751.

Order

for

1752.

Order

for

1753.

Order

1754.

Order

1755.

Invitation to Dinner

1756.

Letter of Sarapion to his Father

ist cent.

1757.

Letter of Horeis to Horion

2nd

cent.

1758.

Letter of Diogenis to

2nd

cent.

.

1759.

Letter of Demetrius to an Athlete

2nd

cent.

.

1760.

Business Letter

2nd

cent.

.

1761.

Letter of Callirhoe to Sarapias

1762.

Letter of Chaereas to his Father

1763.

Letter of Sopatrus to his Sister

2nd or 3rd After 222

1764.

Letter to Pindarus

3rd cent.

1765.

Letter of

1766.

Letter to

1767.

Letter to

1768.

Letter of Heraclius to his Children

1769.

Letter of

Late 3rd or 4th cent. 3rd cent. .

.

Transport-charges

173

.174 .174 .174 .175

.

.

173 .

176 177

.

.178 .178

4th cent.

.

.

306

.

.

.

•

•

.

178

378

.

.

.

.

for

Wine Payment of Wine Payment of Payment Money

390

.

.

.

.

for

Payment of

Late 4th or 5th cent.

of

347

Pitch

2nd or early 3rd

.

Didymas

.

Kousenna Horion Hermione

Ammonas

•

to

.

.

.

.

to his Sister

182

.

182

.

3rd cent.

.

.

.

3rd cent.

.

.

.

3rd cent.

.

.

3rd cent. Late 3rd cent.

1773.

Letter of Dionysius to Sarapion Letter of Eutycheis to Ametrion

1774.

Christian Letter

3rd cent. Early 4th cent.

1775.

Letter of Plutarchus to Theoninus

4th cent.

1776.

Letter of Paulus to Demetrius

Late

1777.

Letter of

Tyrannus

.

.

1772.

to

181

.182

.

.

Letter of a Son to his Mother

Choous

.

.

Letter of Serenus to a

.

.

.

Late 3rd or 4th cent. Late 3rd cent. .

.

.

180

182

1771.

.

180

.

1770.

.

.

.

.

cent.

.

.

.

.

3rd cent.

.

179 179 180

.180 .181

Late 2nd or 3rd cent. ,

Apammon

Tenant

cent.

179

.

4th cent.

Late 4th cent.

.

.

,

.

.

-183 183 183

.184 .184 .184 .185 .

185

,186 .186 .187 .187 .187 .188

NOTE ON THE METHOD OF PUBLICATION AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

in

The genera! method followed in this volume is practically the same as that The texts, being non-literary, are given in modern form with Part XII.

Abbreviations and symbols are resolved additions and corrections are usually incorporated in the text, the former being indicated by ', and the occurrence of the latter being recorded in the critical apparatus, where also faults of orthography, &c., are corrected, if they seemed likely to give accentuation and punctuation.

;

'

Where

additions or corrections are distinguished by t3'pes differing from that of the main text, those by the same hand as the body of the text are in small thin type, those by a different hand in thick type. Iota rise to

any

difficult)^

adscript has been printed when so written; otherwise iota subscript is employed. Square brackets [ ] indicate a lacuna, round brackets ( ) the resolution of a

symbol or abbreviation, angular brackets in

( )

a mistaken omission in the original,

} a superfluous letter or letters, double square brackets [[ ]] a deletion the original. Dots placed within brackets represent the approximate number

braces

{

of letters lost or deleted illegible letters.

Heavy

;

dots outside brackets indicate mutilated or otherwise

Letters with dots under

them

are to be considered doubtful.

Arabic numerals refer to the texts of the

volume and Parts I-XIII

;

Oxyrhynchus Papyri

ordinary numerals refer to

lines,

small

in this

Roman numerals

to columns.

The abbreviations used in citing papyrological publications are practically those adopted in the Arcliiv fiir Papymsforsching. viz. :

—

Archiv = Archiv fiir PapyriisforscJning. B. G. U. = Aeg. Urkunden aus den k. Museen zu Berlin, griechische Urkunden. C. P. Herm. = Corpus Papyrorum Hermopolitanorum, Vol. I, by C. VVessely, C. P. R. = Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, Vol. I, by C. Wessely. GriccJi. Texte = Griechische Texte aus Aegypten, by P. M. Meyer.

M. Chr. P.

=

L. Mitteis, Chrestomathie.

= Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones selectae, by W. Dittcnberger. Amh. = The Amherst Papyri, Vols. I-II, by B. P. Grenfcll and A.

O. G.

I.

S.

Hunt.

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS P.

=

Basel

xiii

Papyrusurkunden der otTentHchen Bibliothck der Univ. zu Basel, by

E. Rabel.

Mus.

=

Greek Papyri H. I. Bell. and Kenyon

P. Brit.

P.

in

the British

Museum,

Vols. I-V,

by

Sir F. G.

=

Catalogue dcs Antiquites egypticnnes du Musee du Caire, Greek Papyri, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt.

Cairo

P. Cairo

Masp.

=

Catal. des Antiq. egypt.

du Mus. du Caire, Papyrus grecs

d'epoque b}'zantine, Vols. I-III, by J. Maspero. P. Cairo Preisigke = Gricchische Urkunden des Aeg.

Museums

zu Cairo, by

F. Preisigke.

—

P. Fa}-.

Fayiim Towns and

their Papyri,

by

B. P. Grenfell, A. S.

Hunt, and

D. G. Hogarth.

= Papiri Fiorentini, Vols. I and HI by G. Vitelli Vol. II by D. Comparetti. P, Freiburg = Mitteilungen aus der Freiburger Papyrussammlung, II, by J. Partsch. P. Gen. = Les Papyrus dc Geneve, Vol. I, by J. Nicole. P. Giessen = Griechische Papyri zu Giessen, Vol. I, by E. Kornemann, O. Eger, P.

P.

Flor.

;

and

P.

Goodsp.

=

by

= Halle = Dikaiomata, &c., by the Graeca Halensis. Hamb. = Griech. Papyrusurkunden der Hamburgischen

P. Grenf.

P.

&c.,

Y.. J.

Goodspeed.

=

Griech. Papyri der Sammlung Gradenvvitz, by G. Plaumann. Greek Papyri, Series I and H, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt.

P. Gradenvvitz

P.

M. Meyer. Greek Papyri from the Cairo Museum,

Stadtbibliothek.

M. Meyer. Hibeh = The Hibeh Papyri, Part I, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. land. = Papyri landanae, by E. Schafer and others. Leipz. = Griech. Urkunden der Papyrussammlung zu Leipzig, Vol.

by

P.

P.

P. P.

I,

by

L. Mitteis. P.

=

Leyden

Papyri

Graeci Musei antiquarii

publici

Lugduni-Batavi, by C.

Leemanns. P. Lille P.

P.

P.

=

Munich

Lille, by P. Jouguet, J. Lesquier. and others. Verofifentlichungen aus der Papyrussammlung zu Munchen, Part A. Heisenberg and L. Wenger.

Papyrus grecs de ::^

I,

by Oxy. ^ The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Parts I-XIII, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. Par. = Les Papyrus grecs du Musee du Louvre, Notices et Extraiis, t. xviii. 2, by VV. Brunet de Presle and E. Egger.

P. Petrie

=

P. Reinach

Flinders Petrie Papyri, Part III, by J. P. Mahaffy and J. G. Smyly. Papyrus grecs et demotiques, by T. Reinach and others.

The

=

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

xiv

Laws

= The

Revenue Laws

of Ptolemy Philadelphus, by B. P. Grenfell. of Greek the P. Ryl. Papyri in the Rylands Library, Vol. II, by Catalogue J. de M. Johnson, V. Martin, and A. S. Hunt. P. S. I. = Papiri della Societa Italiana, Vols. I-V, by G. Vitelli and others. P. Rev.

=

P. Strassb.

by

=

P. Stud. Pal.

and P. Taur. P. Tebt. J.

Griech. Papyrus der k. Universitatsbibliothek zu Strassburg, Vol.

I,

F. Preisigke.

=

Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde, by C. Wessely

others.

= Papyri Graeci regii Taurinensis Musei, by A. Peyron. = The Tebtunis Papyri, Parts and II by B. P. Grenfell, I

G. Smyly, and E.

Goodspeed Papyrus de Theadelphie, by J.

;

A.

S.

Part III in preparation.

P. Jouguet. Thead. = = scuola Studi della S. A. M. papirologica di Milano. SB. = Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten, by F. Preisigke. W. Chr. = U. VVilcken, Chrestomathie.

P.

Wilcken, Ost.

=

Griechische Ostraka, by U. Wilcken.

Hunt,

I.

(a)

1626.

CONTRACTS

Contracts with Officiats.

Payment for Superintendence of Transport. 26-7

X

15 cm.

A. D.

325.

An agreement between the decani, i.e. chief guards of some kind (1. 3, n.), of the village of Paneuei (1. 3, n.), and an epimeletes, for him to act as pafthovy^o'i (1. 9, n.) in charge of animals sent to Babylon in connexion with an anticipated of an

For the payment of the salary of the Emperor {Qda l-nihy]\x\.a). which was at rate of the epimeletes, 3,000 drachmae a day, the \)AC^ow of the vilThe becomes two months' lage (1. 5, n.) surety, pay being provided in advance. an stands in acknowclose relation to 1261, written 4^ months earlier, papyrus ledgement on oath by an epimeletes, who is probably identical with the epimeletes in 1626, concerning produce transported to Babylon partly on account of the troops, partly on account of an li:ihi]\i.ia, which in the light of 1626 is to be That referred to an emperor, not, as suggested in 1261. 5, n., to a catholicus. visit

Constantine himself actually came to Egypt in 325, the year of the Council of Nicaea, is not recorded by the authorities for the period, and is improbable, but his presence may well have been expected. That (^eta e77t8?jjixia refers not to Constantine himself but to one of his sons, is

who

did not

become Augusti

till

337,

unlikely.

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T[b

'e\uaTov

dpdKcoi,

^yXap[ij]a[a]i TTvp\d)L

ero? to

Trv'\p\ov\

ij/jLiav,

^Kcpopiov [eVajoT?;?

arTepfov aKplBov

dpTa^coi/

dpdKCoi TTvpov ofioico? aTepeov dKpiBov

....

6 'AttoXXcoi'lo?

8'

6p.oX\oy€l

^'x^[']'^

[^^?i?["

©iccfo? e/y a-rrepnaTa

In ihe 8th year of the reign of Cleopatra and Ptolemy, gods Philopatores, and the rest of the formula as written at Alexandria, the 27th of the month Gorpiaeus which Epeiph, at Oxyrhynchus in the Thebaid. Theon son of Theon, of the catoecic cavalry, has leased '

=

to Apollonius also called Harbichis, son of Apollonius also called Harbichis, Persian of the epigone, both being from the street of Cleopatra Aphrodite, the holding of 30 arourae which belongs to him at Paimis, on condition that Apollonius shall sow half of it for the 9th year with wheat and cultivate the other half with aracus, at a rent for each aroura sown with wheat of 6 artabae of hard wheat, unmixed with barley, and for each sown with aracus And Apollonius acknowledges likewise [.] artabae of hard wheat, unmixed with barley. that

he has received from Theon for seed r.

The

.

.

.'

extant Greek datings which mention Cleopatra Philopator by name all belong when she was associated with Ptolemy Caesarion, Philopator Philometor ; cf.

to the period

194 and 1635. i (year lost), P. S. I. 549 and Lefebvre, Mi'hiuges HoUeatix (both in year); Lefebvre, Annales du Serv. des Antiq. 1908. 241 is undated. According to Porphyry (ap. Euseb. Chron. ed. Schone, i. 168-70) in years 1-4 of her reign she was associated with Ptolemy XIV, and in years 5-8 with Ptolemy XV, these corresponding to his years 1-4, while during the 8th-i5th years she reigned alone, and her i6th-2 2nd years That Porphyry was wrong in corresponded to years 1-7 (of Antony?; cf 1453. 22, n.). assigning a double reckoning by regnal years to the period of association with Ptolemy had already been inferred from the existence of a coin dated (eVovj) q KKfOTrdrpas finaikiaar^s

O. G. the

I.

nth

XV

(Poole, Catal. p. 122) and demode stelae of the 5th and 6th years ; cf. Strack, Dynaslie der Ptol. 212. 1629 not only provides the first definite piece of evidence for the application of the title Philopator to Ptolemy XV, and additional evidence for the use of a single reckoning

THE OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI

lo

by regnal years during the period of his association with Cleopatra, but indicates that the death of the king was not known at Oxyrhynchus on July 26, b. c. 44. Concerning the precise date and circumstances of that event there has hitherto been no clear evidence. Josephus {Aiit. Jiid. xv. 4. i) states that Ptolemy XV was poisoned at the age of 15 by Cleopatra, and Porphyry /. c. attributes his death rm^ KXeoTrarpa? aixinaii in his 4th and her 8th year, i. e. b. c. 45-44. Mahafify (^Empire of the Ptol. 463) and Bouche-Leclercq {Hisi. des Lagides, ii. 227) suppose that he perished at Rome in the confusion attending the assassination of Caesar on March 15, 44, especially as Cicero {Ad All. xiv. 8) on April 15 refers to the flight of Cleopatra, and on May 11 {Ad All. xiv. 20) mentions the queen and her son Caesar, but says nothing in either place about her brother. Dio, who mentions the presence of Ptolemy XV with Cleopatra at Rome (xliii. 27), seems to imply (xlviii. 24 Tovi d8eX(})ovs avTi]s dno tov fV 'E^ecrw 'Aprifjua-iov unofrirdaas dntKrave) that hc was put tO death with Arsinoe by Antony, i.e. in b. c. 41; but according to Appian, Bc/l. civ. v. 9, the Ptolemy who was put to death with Arsinoe claimed to be Ptolemy XIV, having escaped That Ptolemy XV returned to Egypt with Cleopatra was supfrom drowning in the Nile. posed by Stahr {Cleopolra 56), but without any evidence, as is remarked by Bouch^-Leclercq, I.e. Since Cleopatra left Rome not more than two or three weeks after March 15, 44, she presumably reached Egypt some weeks before July 26, and if Ptolemy XV died at Rome before his sister's departure, the news would on the whole be expected to have reached

Oxyrhynchus by the date of 1629, although in the Roman period instances occur of papyri dated by an emperor who had been dead for as many as five months cf. Hohmann, Chronol. d. Papyrusurk. 50 sqq. are therefore disposed to date the death of Ptolemy later than March 44, and to place it in Egypt rather than Rome, though allowance has to be made for the circumstance that the figure (27) of the month in 1. 3 is a later insertion, ;

XV

We

and the protocol may have been drawn up early

in

Epeiph, which in

u.c.

44 began on

June 30.

Mr. Crum refers us to Wai^iv: a village in the Western toparchy ; cf. 1659. 41. Tberica, 1906, pp. 5 and 13, where it is stated that the body of James, the Persian ' a little x^P'"" some 5 aTu^ia on the east of Pemje martyr, was brought to Egypt to in the named rmai (Oxyrhynchus), Egyptian tongue '. If the geographical indication is 8.

Lemm,

correct, the 10.

Western toparchy reached

^i;X«/j[7;]a-[a]i

I

I

.

arepeov

:

cf.

:

cf.

P.

1639.

1630.

Hamb.

to within a kilometre of

Oxyrhynchus.

27. 6, n.

8, n.

Lease of Land at an increased Rent. l8xi8-8cm.

A.D. 222(.^).

Of this novel application from a certain Heron for a lease of land, at a higher rent than that previously offered by himself and others, the upper portion is lost besides the beginnings of lines, and it does not appear to whom the document was addressed. The mention of various bids {alpiadis 1. 8, tenour of most of the application, which resembles a petition :

n.)

and the general

to an official, rather

suggest that the land in question belonged to the government but the contrary view that it belonged to a private individual is strongly indicated, first by the concluding words ^7 l-nihoxi] Kvpia, which occur in private contracts (e. g. 1631. 33), ;

whereas applications

for hrnxorria or ovcriaKj}

yj)

generally end with iav

(fyaivi-jTai

LEASE OF LAND AT AN INCREASED RENT

1630.

ii

followed by e-mbedioKa, jiecondly by the apparent reference in I. ] to Claudia Isidora as the existing owner of the land (1. 2, n.). Probably therefore the application was made to her representative, who may have been an kiriTpo-nos If 11. 2-4 are restored on the {c{. 1. 3, n.) or oLKovoiJLos (cf. P. Ryl. 171. 1).

y.L(j6S>ijai

.

.

.

Heron had sub-leased Claudia

right lines,

From

Isidora's land situated in the (Small)

4 onwards the narrative becomes clear. Heron had begun the sowing for the current year when two individuals whom he was employing in connexion with the agriculture offered to pay 200 drachmae a year more as rent. Heron made no objection to surrendering his lease to them, provided that he recovered the expenses which he had already incurred. To assert his claim he brought an action before thestrategus, and after a KoyodetJia (1. 12, n.) was awarded 3 talents 400 drachmae. This sum, however, his opponents failed to pay, and in order to bring matters to a head Heron by the present application offered 1,552 drachmae a year more than they, making the whole rent i talent 3,000 (?) drachmae. This bid was accepted by the representative of the land-owner, the intermediate lessees being apparently ignored, just as they seem to be in the negotiations between v-ofjita-OMTai of ovcnuKT] yi] and government officials in B. G. U. Oasis from two of her lessees.

1.

As Rostowzew, who

has discussed the Berlin papyrus in GescJi. d. sqq., remarks, the management of Claudia Isidora's estates, which probably constituted a large private oi/m'a like that of M. Antonius Pallas in P. Brit. Mus. 1233, ^"d perhaps that of Claudia Athenais in P. Strassb. 78, 1047 (131).

Rom. Kolonates 183

seems to have been conducted on a system which differed from that applying to ordinary yj) toioKnjros-, and approximated to that employed in regard to State ovaiaL. The provision of a surety (11. 18-19) i^ ^" unusual feature in a lease of private land in the Roman period, but is known from P. land. 30 to have existed in connexion with the leasing of yi] hrjixoa-ia.

The papyrus belongs Elagabalus (1. having* been made

20, n.). in

It

to the early third century, probably to the reign of seems to be a draft, several alterations in 11. 15-1^

hand which

a small

original scribe, though the latter supplied

fxe

Traces of irapa

[ifiia-OcocrdfjiTfi'

?

is

probably distinct from that of the

which was omitted

at first in

1.

14.

line.

1

TlToXyfxaiov rov Kal

'Aa-Toiraptaoivos

kuI 'Afifoouiov

Tov Kal 'HpuKXeiov [ttTTo

(TLTLKOdv

iSa(})co ?]v

t[cov

^^P^

'''h^

"Oaaiv v7rap\6vToou

Trjs

KXavSias

'IcnScopa^

[(dpovpa^)

.

,

as exovai

?

eV

€TOS KaTaa-JTopav Tcof

Ta]vTr]S

pi[(T6(o(r]€i,

Kal

Tr]v

npbs to kvt(TToi

THE OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI

12 5

re

TO.

TToirjaa^

e^a^cSj/]

[Sr]\ovfjLei^(i)y

Toh Kara

^TTiKovprjaai

[Ka^t

tottov

yecopyoh

anepnara '

[kui

ras Sandvas

e7r]o0^aX/i[((5t']rey rots'

?,

Epp-oykvi^s IJeTfue-

epyois fxov

Kal

(f)U)TOV

['laiScopoi

IxaTMv

eyco

o]us

,

to

/v.

napoju Se

[7ra](rats".

]

«[yTOS

?

jd diXTr€Xovpy[i]Kd epya iravTa Tavdetu

KTTjuaros

r^y

Ka]t

7rp[o](r[ouo-]7/S'

kariv dpovprjSov, r]pei9 jilv ol pl

TrJ9

dnep epya

rjixiav,

d[/X7T€Xov

IviavTov

i(f)

to[v'\

virdpyouTos

oa\o\v

^KacrT[6y

ZTeAftuby

kutu to

\^v

Kal ravra XafSoura TOf OLVoi'

kv

[a^yvOrjoropLev

tco

Kal knaXei-^opev Kal KdLvrjoropev Kal

-qXiaa-Trfpio)

p€TaSiaipdcrop€i' Kal naocrov

ey

pa(f)vXd^o[xev

kpycoi' TrduToou

eV rjXiaarripm

TrpoKeipevoiv

dpyvpiov Spa-

T^TpaKLa^iLXicdv

XP-oov

tcou

picrBov

a7ro/c[e]iTai,

Kal

irei'TaKOcricou

nvpov

dpra^ayi'

SeKa

Kal

Kara

npoKOTrrji'

oivov

Trapa Xrjvov Kepapicou

20

ovcnrep

recrcrap[u

Kapirovs]^

ovtcov

kv

ttj

Kal aKpo-

(f)OLveiKCov

TeXiaofxeu

c/cya/cra

kK[(p6pi.a]

(f)OiuLKOs

)(X(opo[v

d]pTd^riv piav rjpiav, TrarrjTOV

dpTd^rju ptau

rj/jLiav,

dprd^rju ptav

Kap[v](OTou

rjp.L(Jv,

peXaiucoy

kXai\co\v

dprd^T]S ijpiav, TrepcriKMv €/fXe[/fT]a)i/ TrevTaKO(TL(idv ,

KiTpicov 5efca[7re]i/re, avKoov

Oepwuiv

pky^pi-

dva^daeoo^

TerpaKoatcov, 25

7re[p]TaK[oai]a>Vj

)(^etp.€pii^(oi/

Se

kri

ov e| yoTov tov [x]oopLov [Kal] 7roLr]crope[u]

yoXoy[ia]i'

[(tlkv ?]Sia

Kal

to.

ttjv

dXXa

[opoLoos ?

ovTCDu

^oO

TTpo'S

(76

Trj^

t\o\v

)(fj^

TTonjcropey

'ipya

30 api(TT0)9, TU)

irdi'Ta Tcov

Skoi'Tl

acov

ttj^

Tot[9

Te[aa]apa.

k]7rdi/o}

p^L](T6oh

dpci)[ao]pei>

^oja-

Kaipov

KaTO.]

(Se^aLovphrjS Se r]piu rrjs to.

kirl]

k7rdp8e[v(TLP,] [to,

KaXapovpyias povq^ Kal TOV

p^ydXa

XeuK07Te\io]ua

K[a]l to Trpoaov Trcopapi-

ep[y]a

Trj'i

toii[tov]

a-Tpdxrecos

\yeov\)(ov,

dKivBvvoiv

TravTos

Kiv8vvov.

kiriSo-

dpireXov Kal rrdopaptov Kal

evKaipco^ Kal

rravTa,

KaXapua^ KaTa Kaipov

€v-

knaKoXovOovvTOiv

Kaipu)

C

diTacn,

Kal

aTroScoaopti'

to.

eKTaKTa

1

THE OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI

8

Kal fiera top xpopoi'

di/V7rep6eT(i)S,

va Tols epyoi? Kal VT(u

Kai diKuiav

pri[T'

',

?

This operation, called in Latin

was very important (cf. Geop. iii. 6. 3 KXdhovs dnoTepilv, 13. 7, 14. I, and V. 23, a chapter rvepl KXabeias Theophr. Caus. platit. iii, 14 KXuo-tr), and there is no other suitable place for a mention of it in either 1631 (cf. There seems 10, n.) or 1692. to be a reference to carrying away the branches after the pruning in P. Brit. Mus. 131. 39r4, where 1. fic(pfpo{vTts) dpneXrjpi^vX^a ?) (sic) dno tu>v dvbrji^puiv) 7rai6(fs') S. The corrupt substantive compounded of lipncXos and ^liXov is not to be divided into two words, for in 11. 425 and 429, where the phrase recurs, it is abbreviated dpir^ ) or dpireX^ ). The alternative to the

putaiio

(cf. e. g.

iv.

10),

;

1.

identification of ^vXoropia with the Kkaboropla of the vines is to refer it to cutting of wood from other trees for use like the KdXapos as supports for the vines ; cf. Varro i. 8. 2 higoriinL genera fere qiiatuor, pertica, harundo, restes, vites ; Plin. Nat. hist. xvii. 141 rcstat earuvi ratio

quae propter alias seru7itur ac vineas maxime, caeduo ligno, the most important being the Willows might well grow in a KaXupeui, and some willow, harundo., chestnut, and oak. wood could have been obtained from the palms and fruit-trees in the naXaiu ('IprreXus (1. 21); cf. P. Flor. 369. 17, where the lessee of a vineyard containing fruit-trees undertakes to pay The cutting of trees in a vineyard was also done someannually ^vXau Ku6dpa(cov yopov fvu. times partly in order to expose the grapes to the sun; cf SB. 5807. 8-1 1 ypd-

2—5, where 1. e'lKoa-i (sc. dpneXovs

'A](^/joSicr(ar

—

fpov xoprjyovvTos, as in P. Flor. 369)

369. '

material

[(p-^ov

1.

—

T€ Koi

K[aT^ (]ros Brit. I\Ius. 163. 25)

Ku['\]a[p'\'^vpyfju TTpocrrtQ^VTav. v-naldpiov BfTtov, d7r((TTpd(f)6u)

this refers to the fiioxptc's of jars ; cf. Geop. vi. 9 peru Tr)v niaa-ojtTiv nvts : Tov €p^\r]6rjvai to yXtvKos 8ia)(piov(Ti tovs TTidovs' . 8f didxpio'is eori iriacra ptTo. rj (iXXot 8e nicrar] vypa koi aXptj ety to i'^i)Tov ip^Xrjdficrjj daXaTTiov vdaTos. KaTaxpiov(n tu

(TToXfiyj/optv liklyov TTpu (i^r]Tov Kcii

.

t'iWoi 8e

(TTopara Sia anoyyids. Kfivijcropev.

4. 2

fI

Tiidovs,

St TO iii.

povov

729. 25, where

cf.

,

dpopyrj ;^piou(ri Ta naipaTa.

tj]

On moving wine

1.

K\eivr)(nv (sc. TToiTjaovTai). rpvyrjOfv y\f vkos daOevfCTTtpov eivaL KaTapdBois, . , . (v6vs

(jMay) tovs

2

5.

Xpi) ptTavr'Kfiv rovs oipovs,

o'ivovs pfTayyla-opev, vii. 6,

ep^\r]6ivT0i tov olpnv (v

1

l^.

cf.

p€Ta\fu>pfv uvtop

Geop.vn. fls

irtpovs

a chapter nfp\ peTnyyiapov o'ivov Ka\ TTore rw ttIOco perd Tiva )(p6vov pfraKfvaiTfOP els

sTepop dyye'iop Trpdcos. pfTa8i(€)pd(rop€p tS>u 8iT]dovp€P'

ir\Tr\

dKO-

KpaT^lv ovv Kal Kvpieveu'

Sia

^e(3aia

"kv

ISia p.ov Tricrrei

\r]fj

olKovofxelv

Trapi^dyp-^v

[paXrjpyj/opei'OL?

vofMicr-

dpyv-

Trpoy ?

rpiTco

Kal Trapciiv}

-,

dTro(pepeada[L

K]a[l]

^Icri

—

aoi

TTpo8uXrjXv\6oTL

—

TrXijpov?

Ma^ifuvos

[Xovd(09 Ta> (TVCTTaTiKM

TrpoKeijxeurjs

Tifxcof

15 [e^ avToov nepieaopei^a irdura

16

tS>

TO Se Xoirrov rrj? tl]/!^^ dpyvpiov rdXavrov

13 [Trapa aov Std

14

—

y^yovvlav

[Kara dacfydXeiav}

TrJ9

dpyvptov X^^acrroov

rdXavra Tpia kol 8pa^p.ai Tpia-^dXiai i^aKoaiai,

10 [piov

11

dXXijXovs

TTpo?

v Koi

Xapa-

dno

a>s

idr

an[€p]

alpfj,]

Kal

7ra-

crojC

ndi/Tcov

(Se^aicocrei

irdcrr}

Kal

KaOapa dno

diroypacpt]? dvSptou Kal yeoopycas (SaaiXiKrj? Kal ovaiaKij^ yfjf Kal TTaji'Toy uSovs Kal cxpeiArj^ 7rd[ar]^ Kal aJTio nai^TO? o[vTii'o](r17

dXXov,

[ovi/

— —

TaXavTa 8vo}^ Kal 8pa)(pa^

TpL(T)(€LXi[a9

e^aj/coai'ay,

Kal

pr}[8e]u

i8 [eyKaXeii/ ?

19

20

[

[

— —

(r[o]l

]

KXavSia

Trj

(eTovs) e

8€8]au€iKei'at

Ia-i8d>pa

Kal

MdpKou

— napd — —

22 \Kal d(TTrjs

23

[

—

]t

.]i'T0VTi

Xapd

T6^T(£l\y^^

(SovXevTov

inl t\ov

[

—

TOV] J

T^y

8e

Kal

\ji]TTia,

.

[.

.

.]

[.

[.

.]y

8a[i'eyov

,]

^eovrjpov

—

pi\o\v

'I(n8cop[a]

—

oiKia?

)8(/3Ato0uAa/c

Kal

.

.

T^iprji

€[1^]

jpia-l

BvyaTpo^

Trpay/xaTOou

Kaiaapos

?

TiajXaff^oi^

aiOpiov

Kal

^u[KT]r;v

rov ImrLKov

e/c

10 letters

d(p'

dpovpas

e/y

—

rov

—

,

diro p-ev

fiirpa ?

6/xoXoyeT

Tv^i

t

c!)Ko[vo/xi]fievoL9

kv

— Sta

ov eneSiSMKev 6 tSov TTp\a)\Ta)V i

eK

tcou

(5'

^napTdKcoL IlToXip.aiov Ma[/ce56fi

KaTuXo-^iafioTs Tas VTrap)(OV(ras Toirap-^ta^

?

K[al

dXXa

Toc

,

Avarpov

pfquos

ypd(p]eTai,

^O^vpvyyoiv noXet rrj^ Orj/SalSos

UroX^natov rov

—

Kaiaapos 6^ov ^iXoTrdropo^ ^iXo/xiiJTopos 'drov^

Xt](3a

—

?

y^iroves

,

a^oiuia Sv[o 7]]piav, dno Se v6t\ov

kol tov npos raurai^

jcor,

—

avrfyp^voyv

iva,

,

tool

v7rdp)(^co(n

^TTapTdKcoi Kal kKyovois kol

Toh nap

avTov pi^raXrjpy^opkv6\LS at irpoKeipeuai 7rpo9 Kal T019 dXXoiS aripdois Kal ? Kvpi-

lO

(os

—

TOV nduTa ^(^povov dKoXov6aisi\ toIs nepl kirecTTaXpivOLS,

avyypa^rjauv

aXXd Kal avTas

26 letters 15

27 2.

t,

corr.

]

» X.

It is

Ma[KeSofi

:

cf.

1628.

/Je/Sat'ay,]

iiyvius KXeoTrdrpas 'AcppobiTrjs,

cf.

e

.

[

—

koI prjSev napa-

] •

]

[

P.S.I. 549. t(ov

2,

KaroLKwv

TrapevpiaiL ixr]S€p[idi,

I^irapTdKcoL

KaOapas

•

5, n.

TrpoareTaypiuoL^ [Kal

TrpoKeipeucov

T[

8e

^aa]iXiKd)u Ka[l

dir\o

tovto[

—

not quite certain that the correction

1-2. For the restorations 3.

TOiV

avTou dvr)KOVT[

\9Y '^4']

from

vrepi]

iravTeXcos nape^eadai tool

Sid 7ravT09 pev

?

KXi]p[oi9

KaKO-

prjSe

kyKaXkaeiv

pr]8

e\€L

napd tov HrrapTdKOV

]tov (SaaiXiKcou, Kal to. /cara tov ^lov

26 letters

Te-)(yriaeLv

duO' a>v (XafSe

tovtcov

019

— is

—

in a different hand.

1629. 1-4. iTnTfcop

as in 1628. 8, 1629. lO.

may 'have

followed,

and then

ol

8vo

CESSION OF CATOECIC LAND

1635.

41

320. 5-7, Ryl. 159. 5-7, 504. 8-10, as restored in P. Ryl. 139. 5-7, n. The be restored in the place of Trpoo-reray/ifVots). name lost is that of the owner of the land. 366 (probably 14-15, not 41-2), a fragment of a similar cession of catoecic land at Pai'mis, has vTrofiprj^aros [rotjs naph 'HXioSa)p[ov koI EJlprj4-5. Cf. P. S.

two

(in the

I.

last pap)'ri lOKovofirjfievois is to

vaLov Tcor Trpos roiy tO 1. 5* Ka7-v

Srj/xoaLcou

Kai kTnpe[p\LTai)^

o)?

Kal

[ir^epi)

7 letters

Kal Ta TTjv

•

ev

e'^^y.

'HpaKXeiSiaivav KaTa pepos St)' Kal

eivai

Kal tovto)v to Xolttov

opoicos XeXoy)(^evai

e'/c

rjpicrv

avp{yov)

ttjv

pep{os) Trjs

opoicos Kal

I'crov

25 Ta vTToyeypappeva vndp-^iovTa)^ wv to Ka6' ev

^Icreiv

[KaTa pepos Kal [TrdTai.

37.

ei

of

TToo-et

avJTCof

Kai

Tji

€l86t(oi'

12.

ktX.

aip€(Ttau> COIT.

from

corr.

ypdfipa[Ta.

ijno

;

SO

in

1.

14. aptr'

25.

from

30. ra r COrr. from

21.

on.

TOis fvyeypufip-fuois ik of 8ioikiv corr, from

22. a of aft corr. 28. vnep.

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coy iTp\oKeLTai^

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ndaet T019

evSoKov/jieu

Kal d^rjiitov? kol dirape-

TrapY^o/xeu roiis nepl rov A(povv

vo'^XrfTo\ys

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Sapds

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*:(.

1.

23, 1.

33.

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:

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n of

1.

23.

TrpoKipevov

for

rjfiSiv

i//xtoi/.

\\(pnvs Kal Taapnar]€p{iv nla-reis

pi]T€

.

18. d[y]J)yt/xoi the connexion between the occurrence of this clause and Persians of the epigone (1. i) is once more illustrated (cf. 1471. int.) ; but 1639 is noteworthy for not being a a-vyxuyprja-is, like the other contracts in which the clause occurs. :

'

27. 2[a)](rt7rdTpoi^ stroke, e. g. n. 30. Tpn[7TeCi]s)

31.

[ye'yloi'f''

A[v]TnrdTpov

is

unsuitable, but the

first letter

might begin with a straight

is no riji before 'Hpa{K'Kei8ov). and 264. 26, 267. 34, 269. i. 22, 305 and 323

or Tpa{ne(iTov), siuce there

:

n

:

8iaypa{cji{])

cf

:

int.

(quoted on p. 59), and Preisigke, Giroivescn 232-3.

1640.

Loan of Wheat. 15x14-5 cm.

A. D.

252.

This conclusion of a contract

(x(ip6ypa(f)ov) for a loan of wheat is chiefly on of a new measure called Trpos kKaron-Tas account of the mention interesting beKa and apparently identical with the ijArpov T^rpa^oiviKov (11. 4-5, n.). Other

Oxyrhynchus loans of corn in the Roman period are 988 recto (334) and 1040 (225) and like them and 1711 (a late third-century loan of money), &c., 1640 was written in duplicate in parallel columns. We omit Col. i, of which only ;

the ends of lines are preserved.

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1642. 40

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cf. 11.

20, 53) 1413. 8 6 ovofiaa-dfis

(7r\

tw

I8I10

275) considered that the Roman idea of /ii> tov ^e^aarov M. Avp, ArjfjLoarparov

crvfinavTos

^afia [EapBiavov

AXf^acSpeco?

Adrjvatov 'E(f)f(Tiov ^fxvpvaiov

'Aj'Jrti'oecos'

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Nf]t/co/i7ySf'coj

TpaWiavov TTayKpaWiaaWov ^)s TrepioSovfiKOv ttvktov uXfinTOv nopaSo^ov Kpariaros {egregius) was the customary epithet of (a. D. 194), and Kenyon-Bell's notes. epistrategi and other imperial procurators of equestrian rank, but by the end of the third MfiXrjaiov AatCfSaipoviov

.

century was applied to persons of less importance, occurs in C. P. Herm. 7. ii. 4. II. or ]fcr^ot or ^rfcrOat. For fm[ycdyT]v ^aa-dai:

e. g.

a ducenarius in 1711.

4.

.

.

Another

TTfpioSoviKtjs

ttokIv

fvayeiv in

cf.

P.

Leipzig 38.

i.

14 and 16.

{^)

Settlements of Claims 1644.

and

Receipts.

Settlement of Claims. b.c. 63-62.

i5-3Xi3-5cm.

A

Plate

II.

complete contract, written in the reign of Ptolemy Auletes (cf. 1628), whereby three brothers belonging to the catoecic cavalry renounce any claims against their nephew Moschion with regard to a loan of an unspecified amount of silver, borrowed by him some years previously from their mother, who had lately died, a renewal of the loan naving been arranged (1. 19, n.). few nearly

A

and signatures, are missing. The formula resembles that of settlements of disputes or repayments of loans, of which the other first century B. c. examples are all Alexandrian o-uy)(&)/)7/o-ets of Augustus' reign (B. G. U. 1148, &c.), while of the second century B.C. examples only the illegible P. Amh. 42 (B.C. 179; Arsinoe) was (apparently) a k^afidpTvpos (rvyypucj)!], like 1644, the others being notarial agreements (e. g. P. Grenf. ii. 26, Taur. 4, Reinach 12) or yjnp6ypa(\)a (P. Reinach 11). lines at the end, containing the list of (six) witnesses

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1644. 10

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