Arjava, Antti

Lehtinen, Marjo Susanna

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https://helda.helsinki.fiP. Petra V 86. One or Two Short DocumentsArjava, AnttiAmerican center of oriental research2018Arjava , A & Lehtinen , M S 2018 , P. Petra V 86. One or Two Short Documents . in A Arjava, J Frösén & J Kaimio (eds) , The Petra Papyri V . Petra papyri , no. V , American center oforiental research , Amman , pp. 291-292 .http://hdl.handle.net/10138/312121publishedVersionDownloaded from Helda, University of Helsinki institutional repository.This is an electronic reprint of the original article.This reprint may differ from the original in pagination and typographic detail.Please cite the original version.Only a strip of some five centimeters of the right side of this text survives. A blank space between thefragments (fr. 16) suggests that there might actually have been two sheets rolled together. However, they were written by the same hand, and there is only one secure join between the layers (frs. 7 and 14), so it is impossible to reconstruct an alternative sequence of fragments based on this hypothesis. Since it remains possible that the writer left a space between two texts in the same roll, we give just a single transcript. It may represent the original order of the fragments, but this is by no means certain. There were several lines of faint text before the first edited line. A number of fragments may belong to the left of the main series, but they cannot be located.The text was written by a slightly sloping, somewhat clumsy hand with a dull pen, leaving practically no right margin. A few orthographic errors reveal that the writer was not a very experienced professional. As far as can be inferred from the disjointed fragments, the space left between the lines varied considerably. This might of course reflect a situation where the roll consisted of distinct records separated by shorter or longer gaps.Two personal names appear among the fragments, Theodoros and Nonnos. Several words indicate that the document related to landed property and perhaps first and foremost to taxes: ἐ̣λε̣υθε̣ρ̣ικοῦ̣ (taxation class), ἀμπελικοῦ̣ (“vineyard”), ἰουγέρου (iugerum), ϲ̣υ̣ν̣τηλει- (“tax”), and an Arabic toponym.In addition, there was clearly another sheet wrapped around the main roll. The joined height of these fragments was at least 10–15 cm, and they seem to preserve the left side of a text. The extant letters reveal practically nothing of the contents, so we do not edit the wrapping. As the outermost blank layers of the inner roll cannot be separated from the wrapping, the extent of its top margin remains uncertain.↑ – – – – –1     ][][ ] π]επληρ[ϲθα]ι ̣μ̣[ ] . . . to have been paid . . .    traces4  ]τη   traces     ]ιον[  ]λογ    ]δ[  ]86. ONE OR TWO SHORT DOCUMENTSInv. 82IField No. XIXiGlass Plate 286Plate CLIX5 x ca. 50 cmtop margin ca. 4 cm ?right margin 0–0.5 cmbottom margin 6 cm 6th c.?292 THE PETRA PAPYRI V8  ] ὑπὲρ τό(που) Μαθ . . . for the place Math . . .   ] ἐ̣λε̣υθε̣ρ̣ικοῦ̣ . . . free . . .         ][        ]ν[ ]12   traces   traces   vacat Θ]εόδοροϲ . . . Theodoros . . .16  ]μ̣ενοι χα( )   traces  ]οι ἀμπελικοῦ . . . vineyard . . . ] ἑ̣ν̣δεκάτηϲ ἰνδι(κτίωνοϲ) . . . eleventh indiction . . .20 ]ε̣ιϲ̣̣ ἰουγέρου . . . iugerum . . . ]τον καὶ τοῦ̣ ] τὴν ϲ̣υ̣ν̣τήλει(αν) . . . the taxes . . . ]ϲημιω ταυ-24 ]ου Νόννου . . . of Nonnos . . . ]ου τοῦ ε̣ν̣η̣ ὑ]π̣έγραψα † . . . I signed.   traces28 ἥ]μ̣ιϲυ [ ] . . . half . . .   traces ]ϲ̣ιο[ ]νιϲ̣[32 ]ω̣νων   traces   vacat2 πεπληρῶϲθαι   8 οτ  Pap.   15 Θεόδωροϲ   16 αχ   Pap.   19 ινδι Pap.   22 ϲυντέλειαν   ϲυντηλει or ϲυντηλε Pap.   8 ] ὑπὲρ τό(που) Μαθ: the same toponym may appear on a verso fragment: τό(που) Μαθ Ο̣[ .9 ἐ̣λε̣υθε̣ρ̣ικοῦ̣: for land classed as “free,” which did not mean tax-exempt, see P. Petra I, pp. 76–77, and cf. 19 6–7 with comm.16  ]μ̣ενοι χα( ): this may alternatively be ]μ̣ενοιϲ χα( ). The abbreviated word might refer to the public archives or their officialsthereof (δημόϲιοι χάρται, χαρτοφύλαξ, χαρτουλάριοϲ), cf. Index VIII.24 ]ου Νόννου: as the name is in the genitive, it may also be a patronymic.20 ἰουγέρου: for iugerum, see P. Petra I, pp. 102–4, III, pp. 34–35, and IV, p. 29.26 ὑ]π̣έγραψα †: this must be the end of a signature. The fragments do not reveal any clear change of hands. What follows is too slight to decipher or even to judge whether or not it belongs to the same text.COMMENTARYA. ARJAVA, M. LEHTINENPLATE CLIXP. PETRA V 86

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