P.Corn. Inv. I 11 / Recto

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Inventory Number

P.Corn. Inv. I 11

Processing Number

1203

Section/Side

Recto + Verso

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto + Verso

Connections

Archive of Nemesion, son of Zoilos, tax-collector of Philadelphia

Material

Pap

Size

12.5 x 18.2 cm

Items

1

Lines

Recto - 17 + 2;

Verso - 1

Mounted

No

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

Broken off at the bottom; damaged at the folds

Palaeographic Description

A hand that became fixed at an early stage of development, which [could] be called a 'retarded' hand; the letter-forms are such that they could easily have been adapted to genuinely cursive writing, but here they stand, almost without exception, in isolation, [without ligatures]; the hand is definitely not skillful; it is nevertheless the hand of someone who wrote with confidence. (Youtie)

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

July 7, 59 A.D.

Origin

Probably Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Provenance

Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition

Belongs to a large group of papyri found at Philadelphia and purchased in 1921 and 1922 by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Thermouthis

Type of Text/Title of Work

Private Letter

Content

Letter sent by Thermouthis to Nemesion (probably her husband), to inform him of some private affairs, and specifically of the activities of a certain Lucius, who works with or for Nemesion

Subject Headings

Women--Rome|vCorrespondence.

Greek letters.

Clothing and dress--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)

Wages--Shepherds--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)

Mattresses--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)

Literacy--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)

Tools--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)

Searches and seizures--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)

Rome--Army.

Persons

Thermouthis (see also P.Graux II, 11, with p. 12, n. 8);

Nemesion (son of Zoilos, praktor laographias);

Loukis (Lucius) (see also SB XX, 14525-14526);

(unnamed) poimenes;

(unnamed) stratiotes

Geographica

(Arsinoiton?) polis

Translation

Thermouthis to Nemesion, greetings. I want you to know that Lucius has come. About his smock of coarse sackcloth, which you have in the city, if you come down bring it. He has the hood (soubrikos) here. I gave it to him some time ago on his word alone, so that he might have it until you come down. And about the shepherds' wages, he said, "I am sending a soldier . . . immediately," he says, "to seize such of the shepherds belongings as are still in place." He has not given me our mattress. "Bring me my old one," he says. And about the shovel, he says that you asked them for three staters per shovel. Farewell. Year 5 of Nero, Epeiph 13.

(2 lines of another text, written in the opposite direction by a different but equally unsophisticated hand. An attempt was made to wash off the text. - Too fragmentary to be translated.)

(Verso)

Deliver to Nemesion

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1203

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
ZPE 22	Youtie HC	1976	53-56	SB XIV 11585	Youtie HC, ZPE 22, 53-56, 1976 -- SB XIV 11585 -- BL IX, 274 (l. 2-3); BL XI, 213;	BL IX, 274 (l. 2-3); BL XI, 213;

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

Youtie H C, ZPE (1976), 53-56; A.E. Hanson, Egitto e storia antica (Bologna, 1989) p. 432, n. 12; p. 435.

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

59

Year End

59

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

4235 x 4795

File Size

1 MB

Record

1203

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1203/c1_11r.tif content_copy

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Manifest

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