P.Mich.inv. 1637 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 1637
- Processing Number
- 1494
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 10.5 x 10 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 13
- Verso - 1
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- Slightly damaged along the folds
- Palaeographic Description
- a rather large, cursive hand (but the date is in a smaller, more crowded script by the same writer) (Winter)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- May 30, 127[?] A.D.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Provenance
- Unknown
- Acquisition
- November 1924
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Trapbos
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Private Letter
- Content
- An urgent appeal from a son (or daughter?) to his/her father, asking him to come at once; otherwise the daily "hiding" which he/she fears from his/her overseers will force him/her to leave
- Subject Headings
- Letters--Egypt.
- Supervisors--Egypt.
- Parent and adult child--Egypt.
- Help-seeking behavior--Egypt.
- Violence--Egypt.
- Persons
- Trapbos(?) (son/daughter of Herakles?);
- Herakles;
- (unnamed) epsatai (= epistatai);
- Hadrianus, emperor
- Translation
- Trapbos(?) to Herakles his <or: her?> father, very many greetings. Before all else I pray for your health. I have caused unpleasantness for my overseers, and I want to get away from them. If you can come, come at once. For if I do not get away from them, they will give me a hiding every day. Give salutations to all in the house.
- Year 11(?) of the Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Pauni 5.
- (Verso)
- From Trapbos(?) to Herakles.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1494
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich III Winter JG 1936 204 Winter JG, PMich III, 204, 1936 -- BL III, 111 (l. 1); & BL VIII, 212 (l. 12); BL XI, 131 (l. 4); BL III, 111 (l. 1); & BL VIII, 212 (l. 12); BL XI, 131 (l. 4);
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- K.F.W. Schmidt, GGA 199 (1938) p. 154
Availability/System Requirements
- Scanner Initials
- CT
- Date Scanned
- 6/17/1996
- Institution
- sr
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 127
- Year End
- 127
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2505 x 1057
- File Size
- 88 KB
- Record
- 1494
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1494/1637v_a.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 1637; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1494/1637v_a.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2025.