P.Mich.inv. 6858 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 6858
- Processing Number
- 17411
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto (back) + Verso (front)
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 29 x 15 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-25
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- This medium-brown papyrus is regularly cut at all sides, and the text is complete. Kollesis in the middle. (TC)
- Palaeographic Description
- Hand similar to BMC no. 257; Stegemann, Taf. 8. Recto similar to Taf. 9.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- VIth/VIIth century A.D.
- Origin
- unknown
- Provenance
- unknown
- Acquisition
- purchased by Prof. Worrell in Egypt in the spring of 1936
- Language
- Coptic
- Genre
- documentary
- Author
- Anuti
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- letter
- Content
- Letter from one Anuti to three ecclesiastics, reporting the succesful conclusion of a dispute regarding rent for a vineyard and a share in a house. The writer, in closing, asks for a blessing, written and wrapped around some object, unnamed, to be used with the water of their foot washings, for therapeutic purposes.
- The rude scrawl, recto b, in a roughly contemporary hand, may be mathematical.
- Subject Headings
- Letter writing--Coptic--Egypt.
- Christians--Egypt.
- Monks--Egypt.
- Business--Egypt.
- Prayer--Christianity--Egypt.
- Persons
- Anuti;
- Apa Makarios;
- Apa Apollo;
- Joseph;
- Heray;
- Papa Naro;
- Anute;
- Amata;
- Paul, the son of Kouson;
- Pamoute;
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- "Anuti, the least sinner, it is who writes to his beloved lord and holy father, Apa Makarios, and Apa Apollo, and my brother Joseph, saying: I greet you with my whole heart. Be so good and think of me, for besides God you are my lord and father, you are my consolation, you are my consolation, you are every good that I possess. I greet your holy Paternity. Thanks to your prayers, blessing has come to me. I pay respect to your Paternity at all times. Be so good and think of me. As to the little letter which you wrote with such great kindness concerning Heray to Papa Naro and Anute concerning the little children of Amata: I went and I did it. While we were . . . . . . . . . ., I and Paul the son of Kouson. They sent me after them for us. They sent to them their dues (?) in the vineyard and their share in the house. They came to an agreement with them. Be so good to your son and give a little water of the feet of holy men and a little blessing of our father and a little . . . . . . in your blessing. Give them to Pamoute and he will bring tehm to me and they will be a healing to me. Verily I hang upon nothing of this world except your blessing. Salvation in the Lord!"
- (Recto a): "Give it to my Lord Father Apa Makare. From Anuti."
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 500
- Year End
- 699
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 7866 x 4571
- File Size
- 5 MB
- Record
- 17411
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-17411/6858v.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 6858; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-17411/6858v.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 17, 2024.