Arjava, Antti

Lehtinen, Marjo Susanna

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https://helda.helsinki.fiP. Petra V 54. Canceled DraftArjava, AnttiAmerican center of oriental research2018Arjava , A & Lehtinen , M S 2018 , P. Petra V 54. Canceled Draft . in A Arjava , J Frösén & JKaimio (eds) , The Petra Papyri V . Petra papyri , no. V , American center of orientalresearch , Amman , pp. 106-108 .http://hdl.handle.net/10138/311841publishedVersionDownloaded 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.54. CANCELED DRAFTInv. 86a versoField No. XIIIkGlass Plates 330–31Plates XXXV–XXXVI15.5 x 40–60 cm  6th c.?The present text derives from the reverse (verso) side of 53. This small roll was found directly beneath the large roll which contained 51 and 52, possibly bundled with it. For its physical description and the problems surrounding the fragments’ sequence, see Introduction to 53. The arrangement of the fragments in the transcript is hypothetical and omits the layers at the bottom of the stack, as we suspect they did not belong in this roll at all. However, even if they did, they would not supply anything of importance, as they are either empty or preserve only parts of words.The document is clearly a draft. It has been rescinded with criss-crossing lines drawn over, and individual words have sometimes been canceled by a horizontal stroke. There are also occasional additions between lines. It may be that the same hand did not write all the lines, but the number of different hands is impossible to verify. The writing is mostly a hasty sloping cursive, with smallish letters, often quite carelessly formed, written in thick ink, but some lines seem to display a different, more elegant hand. As the papyrus’ surface is partly damaged, the text is extremely difficult to read, so we have been able to decipher only individual and mostly not veryinformative words.The name of Aaron is an exception, recurring three times in the document. Although the context remains obscure, it links this text with that of the recto, where the same name occurs twice. Moreover, the text mentions a hospice or hospital (ξενών). Both 53 and 54 may thus be somehow connected with 52, a draft will in favor of one or several pious institutions, which are there also called hospices (ξενεών and ξενοδοχεῖον). However, the name of Aaron is not preserved in 52, as would be expected if an institution named after him, such as the religious place mentioned in 55 (“Holy house of the Saint high priest Aaron”), had been among the main beneficiaries.Perhaps the three documents (52, 53, and 54) were not all related to one and the same bequest, but were rather drafts for different pious donations.↑1                ][ K1-47      vacat?2 ] μέρων̣ τ̣ὸ̣ν̣ ϲ̣ο̣[][3   ]τη[4 ὀ]φείλοντα̣ [] ἐτῶν̣ [ K1-465 ][]το̣ν̣ [1076                  ] τῶν̣ αὐτοῦ ἀδελ̣φῶ̣ν̣ ρ̣[7                    ] α̣ὐ̣τ̣ο̣ῦ̣ θέϲεωϲ τὸ̣ν̣ [8                     ]η̣ϲομεν[ K1-489                   ]οε χα̣ρι[10 ]τηϲ οι[11  ]〚μ̣α̣ το̣ὺ̣ϲ̣ ἄ̣λλουϲ πρὸϲ〛 το̣[12 ]τοϲ τὰ καὶ  Ἀαρὸν τ[ K1-4513 ] ἢ ὑπόκειϲ̣θαι το[14            ]οτι̣ 〚Ἀ̣αρῶν̣ο̣ϲ̣〛 [15                  ]ϲ περὶ Ἀα̣ρῶνα̣ τῆϲ τ[16                           ]εε[17                  ]ν τοῦ αὐτοῦ ε̣ὐ̣α̣γ̣[ K1-4918 ] α̣ὐ̣τ̣ο̣ῦ̣ [19 ]θαι ἔν τινι ̣ἀ̣ν̣η̣τ̣ονα̣υ̣τ̣[ K1-4420             ]τ̣ω̣ν̣ ἀντέχεϲθ̣α̣ι ̣[21                    ][22               ]οϲτ̣ην ‵ὑπο α̣[  ]′ τ[ K1-43a23 ] τοῦ αὐ‵τοῦ̣′ ξενῶνοϲ [24 ][12 Ἀαρὼν1 It is not clear which way the letters at the papyrus’ very upper edge were written. They may have belonged to a different text lost after the roll had been cut here.2–3 These two lines seem to have been written by a different hand in a thinner, more elegant script. It is similar to the hand in l. 8, but the fragments K1-47 and -48 cannot follow immediately each other, because they come from the same side of the roll. It is not totally impossible that there was a lost counterlayer between them, which would then change the order of all fragments.4 ὀ]φείλοντα̣: “owing, being obliged to.”6 τῶν̣ αὐτοῦ ἀδελ̣φῶ̣ν̣: “of his brothers.”7 θέϲεωϲ: the word has a whole range of meanings, such as “laying down, placing, pledging, position, adoption.”8 For the handwriting, see note to ll. 2–3.9 ] οε χα̣ρι: although most letters are visible, the word preceding χα̣ρι remains a mystery, perhaps a genitive governed by χάριν. Some candidates, like μαρτυρίαϲ or ἀϲφαλείαϲ, are impossible. Both τούτου and τούτων might be possible, though they do not fit the traces well. Another alternative is εὐτυχίαϲ, but we would have to assume that the chi is somehow damaged. However, it is equally possible that what follows is χαριζ[, coming from the verb χαρίζω (“give, grant, gratify”). In that case the preceding word would be something totally different.13 ὑπόκειϲ̣θαι: probably “to be pledged, to be liable to.”17 τοῦ αὐτοῦ ε̣ὐ̣α̣γ̣[ : “of the same sacred . . .” The adjective εὐαγήϲ refers often to religious institutions and is so used in Petra, e.g., for the Hospital of the Saint Martyr Kyrikos in 55; see further Index VII.54. CANCELED DRAFTCOMMENTARY108 THE PETRA PAPYRI V20 ἀντέχεϲθ̣α̣ι:̣ the word may have various meanings, such as “keep, assume, take charge of, lay claim to.” It is not particularly common in late papyri, but cf. P. Cair. Masp. III 67281.5 (538–40); P. Oxy. I 138.12 (610/11).23 τοῦ αὐ‵τοῦ̣′ ξενῶνοϲ: “of the same hospice/hospital.” For the word, see 55 21–22 comm. A. ARJAVA, M. LEHTINENPLATE XXXVP. PETRA V 54 LINES 1–20PLATE XXXVIP. PETRA V 54 LINES 19–24

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