P.Mich.inv. 3108 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3108
- Processing Number
- 1797
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- Zenon archive
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 30 x 24.5 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Col. I - 16;
- col. II - 9
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- broken off at the bottom
- Palaeographic Description
- paragraphoi
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 251 B.C.
- Origin
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Provenance
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Acquisition
- July 1925; Acquired from Dr. Kondilios
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Pyron
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Business Letter
- Content
- Letter to Zenon from Pyron, an accountant in his service, requesting an advance of money, to buy poppy seed and sell it at a profit, and the loan of a parcel of land, to have wheat of his own
- Subject Headings
- Festivals--Egypt.
- Commercial correspondence--Egypt.
- Loans--Egypt.
- Land tenure--Egypt.
- Agriculture--Egypt.
- Writings--Materials and instruments--Egypt.
- Measures and weights, Ancient.
- Travel, Ancient.
- Scribes--Egypt.
- Persons
- Zenon (son of Agreophon) (see Pros.Ptol. I 80 + add.);
- Pyron (see Pros.Ptol. I 136 + add.; IV 10451; Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 411)
- Translation
- To Zenon greeting from Pyron. Though I desired some time ago to ask you for money for buying poppy seed, I have refrained until now, being ashamed to see so many others applying to you. So in order that, if you sail down to the Pentaeteris, I may accompany you in proper style, will you kindly help me at any rate to buy 150 artabai, which I will presently deliver to you in quantities of 30 artabai? I ask this not only for the sake of my private expenses, but also to meet expenditure on the papyrus rolls [- - -] Do this for me then at any rate. And please consider my request about a plot of land which I can sow and thus live decently 'without troubling' you for the future, once you have provided this year's seed. May you prosper.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1797
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich I Edgar CC 1931 46 Edgar CC, PMich I, 46, 1931
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- -251
- Year End
- -251
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3902 x 3427
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 1797
- Link to this Item
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