P.Mich.inv. 1026 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 1026
- Processing Number
- 1300
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 14.2 x 15.6 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 20;
- Verso - 5 + 1
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- Badly damaged along the vertical folds
- Palaeographic Description
- Thick, rather square uncials which give a slight impression of lack of ease; the pen used appears to have become blunted during the writing of the letter (Priest)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IInd century/IIIrd century A.D.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Provenance
- Unknown
- Acquisition
- June 1922; Acquired from Nahman through the British Museum
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Isis
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Private Letter
- Content
- Letter sent to Serapion by Isis, perhaps his wife, who reports on the purchases of wheat and hay and asks him to send her money for expenses; she also sends greetings from his and her family. Serapion apparently reused the papyrus to write a short note to another woman, named Helene
- Persons
- Isis;
- Serapion;
- Philon(?);
- (unnamed) father of Serapion;
- (unnamed) son of Serapion;
- (unnamed) mother of Serapion;
- (unnamed) mother(?) of Isis;
- (unnamed) sister of Isis;
- Helene(?)
- Translation
- Isis to her brother Serapion, many greetings. I make your obeisance each day before the gods of this place. Be informed (?) by me that Philon has (not?) delivered <OR: that I don't owe ...> a single artaba of wheat, charging me twenty drachmai. But know that it is all right. If you can, send me (money?) for the expense, (and so that?) I may sail to you. Come to us as soon as you can. I also spent twelve drachmai fo r hay. Greet your father heartily. Your son greets your heartily, as do your mother and my mother(?) and my sister.
- (Verso, in right margin:)
- Deliver to Serapion from [Isis].
- (Verso, second text:)
- Serapion(?) to Helene(?), many greetings. . . . artab(s) of wheat . . .
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1300
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections StudPap 22 Priest NE 1983 15-19 SB XVI 12981 Priest NE, StudPap 22, 15-19, 1983 -- SB XVI 12981 -- BL X, 217 (date) BL X, 217 (date)
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- H.-J. Dreixhage, Preise, Mieten/Pachten, Kosten und Loehne im roemischen Aegypten bis zum Regierungsantritt Diokletians (1991) p. 22
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 100
- Year End
- 299
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4105 x 4918
- File Size
- 3 MB
- Record
- 1300
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1300/1026v.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 1026; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1300/1026v.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.