Horos, son of Patous Jr. Bibliography Description The ... - Trismegistos
Horos, son of Patous Jr. Bibliography Description The ... - Trismegistos
Horos, son of Patous Jr. Bibliography Description The ... - Trismegistos
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<strong>Horos</strong>, <strong>son</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Patous</strong> <strong>Jr</strong>.<br />
Place<br />
Date<br />
Language<br />
Material<br />
Number <strong>of</strong> texts<br />
Type<br />
Collections<br />
Find/Acquisition<br />
Arsinoites, meris <strong>of</strong> Herakleides, Philadelpheia<br />
BC 199-184<br />
Demotic<br />
papyri<br />
Private family archive<br />
Ann Arbor, Michigan University<br />
Bought on the antiquities market<br />
<strong>Bibliography</strong><br />
<strong>Description</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> papyri in the family archive <strong>of</strong> <strong>Horos</strong>, <strong>son</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Patous</strong> <strong>Jr</strong>. are written in demotic and still<br />
largely unpublished. It is difficult therefore to say anything definitive about the archive as a<br />
whole. For this rea<strong>son</strong> we start from a table where we have collected the data as far as we<br />
could find them, mainly from the website <strong>of</strong> the Michigan papyrus collection 1 .<br />
Inv. no. Type <strong>of</strong> contract Date Party 1 Party 2<br />
4526.A1 marriage 1 199, Jan. 10 <strong>Patous</strong> jr. Nebuotis<br />
4526.A2 marriage 2 199, Jan. 10 <strong>Patous</strong> jr. Nebuotis<br />
4526.C1 sale <strong>of</strong> half house 186, Dec. 8 <strong>Patous</strong> jr. Tikas d. <strong>of</strong> Teos<br />
4526.C2 cession <strong>of</strong> half house 186, Dec. 8 <strong>Patous</strong> jr. Tikas d. <strong>of</strong> Teos<br />
4200 agreement concerning<br />
a house<br />
186, Dec. 19 [Tikas d. <strong>of</strong> Teos] Paneith jr.<br />
4526.B1 loan 184, 24 Feb. Tikas d. <strong>of</strong> Teos <strong>Horos</strong> s. <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Patous</strong> jr.<br />
4526.B2 sale <strong>of</strong> half house ? 184, 24 Feb. Tikas d. <strong>of</strong> Teos [<strong>Horos</strong> s. <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Patous</strong> jr.]<br />
4207 cession <strong>of</strong> half house? 184, 24 Feb. [Tikas] d. <strong>of</strong> Teos [<strong>Horos</strong> s. <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Patous</strong> jr.]<br />
<strong>The</strong> family stemma can be reconstructed as follows :<br />
<strong>Patous</strong> x Eseremphis<br />
Psammetichos x Taarmotnis<br />
<strong>Patous</strong> jr. x Nebuotis<br />
Tikas x Petearmotnis <strong>Horos</strong><br />
As can be seen from the table above there are probably only four transactions in the archive,<br />
most documented by double or even triple documents .<br />
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1) In 199 <strong>Patous</strong> jr., a servant <strong>of</strong> Hathor mistress <strong>of</strong> Aphroditopolis, and Nebuotis marry<br />
(4526).<br />
2) Thirteen years later <strong>Patous</strong> jr. sells half a house in Philadelpheia to the woman Tikas.<br />
3) In 184 BC the same Tikas gives as security for a loan the same half house to the farmer<br />
<strong>Horos</strong>. Apparently the mortgage is immediately turned over into a sale.<br />
<strong>The</strong> house changes owners within the family. This becomes clear in stage 3, where<br />
Petearmotnis, the husband <strong>of</strong> Tikos, confirms the deed <strong>of</strong> his wife. He is a <strong>son</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Patous</strong> jr.<br />
(and inherited his title "servant <strong>of</strong> Hathor mistress <strong>of</strong> Aphroditopolis" and so is the other<br />
party <strong>Horos</strong>, who has no title except "farmer".<br />
It is likely that the archive ended up in the hands <strong>of</strong> <strong>Horos</strong> <strong>son</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Patous</strong> jr. : he is now the<br />
owner <strong>of</strong> the house and therefore also <strong>of</strong> the title-deeds concerning the house. It is,<br />
moreover, normal that he also keeps the marriage contract <strong>of</strong> his mother Nebuotis.<br />
Appendices<br />
1 http://images.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/imageidx?rgn1=ic_all;op2=And;rgn2=ic_all;op3=And;r<br />
gn3=ic_all;c=apis;q1=demotic;q2=papyrus;back=back1166551326;size=50;subview=detail;resnum<br />
=1;view=entry;lastview=reslist;cc=apis;entryid=x-2173;viewid=4244_4A.TIF. Figures in bold<br />
refer to inventory numbers in the Michigan collection.<br />
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