An unpublished Manumissio Inter Amicos (P.Mich.inv. 5688c)

The paper provides the editio princeps of P. Mich. inv. 5688c, a fragment whose remnants contain an Arsinoite bilingual Manumissio inter amicos. This enfranchisement deed, whose writing ranges roughly from 212p to 250p, is the only parallel to M. Chr. 362, i.e. the sole bilingual manumissio inter amicos published so far. Although the text of P. Mich. inv. 5688c features the usual pattern of this typology of enfranchisements (cf. not only M. Chr. 362, but also P. Lips. II 151 and P. Oxy. IX 1205, both supposedly Greek translations of Latin deeds) and refers to a similar general context (cf. sex and age of the freed slave in all parallels), it shows some contextual and textual peculiarities: the former linked with the fact that the document was probably drawn up in Arsinoe and only at a later stage brought to Karanis, the latter include the mention to a likely delayed payment, the lack of the Stipulationsklausel and the double use of the verb "martyro".