P.Mich.inv. 286 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 286
- Processing Number
- 1662
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 11.9 x 10.0 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-29
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- This papyrus is regularly cut at all sides. (TC) The papyrus is complete at the bottom and at the right.
- Palaeographic Description
- The hand is a cursive of the end of the second century or the beginning of the third century A.D.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- (late) IInd/(early) IIIrd century A.D.
- Origin
- Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt (?)
- Provenance
- 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
- unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- private letter
- Content
- On this side of the papyrus there are preserved parts of two columns of a private letter: from the first column the endings of 13 lines, and from the second 16 lines, containing the end of the letter, of which 15 are complete. The letter seems to concern some family quarrel over return of a dowry or division of an inheritance.
- Subject Headings
- Egyptian letters--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Brothers and sisters--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Husband and wife--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Fathers and sons--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Interpersonal confrontation--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Earrings--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Persons
- Thaubarin,
- Dios,
- Heron,
- Herakles,
- Aphrodas,
- Tanesneu,
- Eudemon,
- Albauis,
- Maximos,
- Helene,
- Isidora.
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- (Col. II): ". . .my brother having taken an ear-ring of . . . and a ring of two drachmas, hurled them at her in the presence of all kinsfolk.
- Mummy Thaubarin and daddy Dios and my brother Heron and my son Dios send you salutations. I salute Herakles and his sister, and Dios, his wife and his children. I salute Aphrodas, his wife and his children, and Tanesneu, her children and her husband, and Eudemon, and his wife. I salute Albauis, Maximos, Helene, my sister (?) Isidora and all at home, each by name. Farewell."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3629
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections JJP 15 Swiderek A 1965 136-8 SB VIII 9882 Swiderek A, JJP 15, 136-8, 1965 -- SB VIII 9882
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 150
- Year End
- 250
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3926 x 4701
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 1662
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1662/286r.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 286; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1662/286r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.