P.Mich.inv. 157 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number
P.Mich.inv. 157
Processing Number
1468
Section/Side
Recto
Image Side
Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side
Recto; Verso is blank
Connections
-
Material
Pap
Size
10 x 11 cm.
Items
1
Lines
1-11
Mounted
No
Negative
Yes
Conservation Status
This dark-brown papyrus is cut off rather regularly at all sides except the bottom which has been severely torn.Some damage along the 4 vertical folds. (TC) The text is totally lost after its eleventh line.
Palaeographic Description
The writing is rather large and thick and somewhat detached.
Status
published
Library
Ann Arbor

Contents

Date
156/157 A.D.
Origin
Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt
Provenance
Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt (?)
Acquisition
purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920
Language
Greek
Genre
documentary
Author
Papontos, alias Patas
Type of Text/Title of Work
application for payment
Content
The present text is a request for payments of money for a particular service rendered. Our application asks for the transportation costs for chaff to be used in firing the kiln of the pottery establishment on the lower estate.
Persons
Papontos,
Patas,
Matreas,
Epimas,
Heras.
Geographica
-
Translation
"Papontos, alias Patas, overseer of the lower estate and upper estate, to the most honorable Matreas, greetings.
If it should seem best to you, lord, send to Epimas and Heras for trasnporting chaff for firing the pots in the pottery establishment of the lower for the production of the twentieth year (x drachmas), for which I shall furnish an accounting . . . "

Information on Publications

Publications
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections
Le Monde Grec Hanson AE 1975 609-610 Pl XIV Hanson AE, Le Monde Grec, 609-610, 1975, Pl XIV
PTheon Sijpesteijn PJ 1976 12 Pl XII Sijpesteijn PJ, PTheon, 12, 1976, Pl XII

Cataloging

Cataloger
TC
Year Begin
156
Year End
157

Technical Details

Image Size
2586 x 5079
File Size
2 MB
Record
1468
Link to this Item
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1468/157r.tif

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"P.Mich.inv. 157; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1468/157r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.
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