P.Mich.inv. 201 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 201
- Processing Number
- 1574
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- Archive of Horos and Tapekysis(?)
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 7.1 x 14.8 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 18
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- broken off at the bottom
- Palaeographic Description
- Writtn in an angular but fairly even cursive (cf. P.Graec. Berol. 23) (Browne)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- ca. 126-128 A.D.
- Origin
- Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Bacchias, 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
- Horos, son of Horos
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Petition to a Strategos
- Content
- Petition addressed to Asklepiades, strategos of the Herakleidou meris, by Horos, son of Horos, who complains about some theft of hay
- Persons
- Asklepiades, strategos of the Herakleidou meris;
- Horos son of Horos (see P.Mich. III, p. 179-180, etc.);
- (unnamed) archephodos of the plain of Bacchias;
- Alexas, presbyteros
- Geographica
- Bacchias, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome
- Translation
- To Asklepiades, strategos of the division of Herakleides of the Arsinoite nome, from Horos, son of Horos, from the village of Bacchias. Hay was stolen in the plain of the village, one load of hay. And while this person was furtively removing the hay, he loosened a sheaf of wheat for his own horses. But, after I remonstrated with him about these matters, he compelled the police chief of the plain to sequester (the hay) that I have next to his hay on the pretext that I in fact was guilty of the theft, so that one of the elders, Alexas . . .
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.5012
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich X Browne GM 1970 581 Browne GM, PMich X, 581, 1970
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 126
- Year End
- 128
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3480 x 4608
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 1574
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1574/201r_a.tif
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- Manifest
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:1574:201R_A.TIF
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"P.Mich.inv. 201; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1574/201r_a.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.