P.Mich.inv. 188 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number: P.Mich.inv. 188
Processing Number: 1541
Section/Side: Recto + Verso
Image Side: Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side: Recto + Verso
Material: Pap
Size: 14.3 x 23 cm
Items: 1
Lines: Recto - 21;; Verso - 1
Mounted: Yes
Negative: yes (5.4670 - 1)
Conservation Status: Complete
Palaeographic Description: Handwriting of an inexperienced scribe, with uncertain orthography and clumsy construction of sentences
Status: published
Library: Ann Arbor

Date: (Early) IInd century A.D.
Origin: Unknown
Provenance: Probably Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
Acquisition: purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920
Language: Greek
Genre: Documentary
Author: Thermouthas
Type of Text/Title of Work: Private Letter
Content: Private letter from a pregnant woman to her mother
Subject Headings: Family--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city); Diet--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city); Romans|vCorrespondence.; Literacy--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city); Women--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city); Home economics--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city); Wool--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
Persons: Thermouthas;; Valerias, mother of Thermouthas;; Valerius;; Artemis;; Nikarous;; (another?) Valerius (husband of Thermouthas?);; Dionysia;; Demetrous;; Taesis;; (unnamed?) father of Thermouthas;; Rodine (Rhodine)
Geographica: Philadelphia
Translation: Thermouthas to Valerias, her mother, very many greetings and continued good health. I received from Valerius a basket in which were twenty pairs of cakes of wheat and ten pairs of loaves of bread. Send me the blankets of the price (agreed on) and fine wool, four shearings. Do you give them to Valerius. We have just been seven months pregnant. I salute Artemis and the little Nikarous and Valeris my lord - I long for him in my heart - and Dionysia and Demetrous, and the little Taesis often, and all those in the house. And send me news of how my father is, since he was ill when he left me. I salute grandmother. Rhodine salutes you. I have put her out at handwork; I need her again, but I am well. Phaophi 8.; (Verso); Deliver to Philadelphia to Valerias, my mother.
Papyri.info Link: https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1541

Information on Publications

Publications: Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections

Aegyptus 13 Winter JG 1933 363-366 SB V 7572 Winter JG, Aegyptus 13, 363-366, 1933 -- SB V 7572 -- BL XI, 202; BL XI, 202;

Papyrological Primer, 4th edition David M-Groningen BA 1965 80 David M-Groningen BA, Papyrological Primer, 4th edition, 80, 1965 -- BL III, 189 (l. 3; 4); BL IX, 247 (l. 8-9) BL III, 189 (l. 3; 4); BL IX, 247 (l. 8-9)

Information on Publications--Further Republications

Further Republications: Rep. Editor - Pestman PW; Rep Ser. - New Papyrological Primer; 1990; Pg_No. 40 (with plates)

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography: U. Wilcken, Archiv 11 (1935) p. 309; W. Clarysse, AncSoc 21 (1990) p. 40

Cataloging

Cataloger: PH
Year Begin: 100
Year End: 199

Technical Details

Collection: Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)
Image Size: 4307 x 5803
File Size: 3 MB
Record: 1541
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1541/188r.tif

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Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
Aegyptus 13	Winter JG	1933	363-366	SB V 7572	Winter JG, Aegyptus 13, 363-366, 1933 -- SB V 7572 -- BL XI, 202;	BL XI, 202;
Papyrological Primer, 4th edition	David M-Groningen BA	1965	80	David M-Groningen BA, Papyrological Primer, 4th edition, 80, 1965 -- BL III, 189 (l. 3; 4); BL IX, 247 (l. 8-9)	BL III, 189 (l. 3; 4); BL IX, 247 (l. 8-9)