P.Mich.inv. 3136 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3136
- Processing Number
- 1826
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto (written across the fibres) + Verso
- Connections
- + P.Cair. inv. JdE 48519 (P.Cair.Zen. I, 59071); Zenon archive
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- P.Mich.inv. 3136: 24 x 8 cm; total size: 32 x 8 cm
- Items
- 3
- Lines
- Recto - 4;
- Verso- 3 (only a1 on P.Mich.inv. 3136)
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- complete; a clay sealing was found attached to the Michigan fragment
- Palaeographic Description
- Recto written across the fibres
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- May 30, 257 B.C.
- Origin
- probably Memphis, Memphite nome, Egypt
- Provenance
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Acquisition
- July 1925; Acquired from Dr. Kondilios
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Nikon
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Business Letter
- Content
- Letter sent to Zenon by Nikon concerning certain dishes that he had commissioned another member ofApollonios' household to sell them for him
- Subject Headings
- Letter writing, Greek--Egypt.
- Stewards--Egypt.
- Kitchen utensils--Transportation--Egypt.
- Selling--Kitchen utensils.
- Persons
- Nikon (see Pros.Ptol. I 98 + add.; Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 377);
- Zenon (son of Agreophon) (see Pros.Ptol. I 80 + add.);
- Artemidoros eleatros (edeatros) (see Pros.Ptol. V 14182; Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p 302-303)
- Geographica
- Alexandria
- Translation
- (Recto)
- Nikon to Zenon greeting. We have written to Artemidoros the steward (eleatros) to deliver to you the price of the dishes which we deposited with him, or the dishes themselvesif we have not sold them. So if you receive them send them to us, unless they be of use to you. Farewell.
- (Verso)
- To Zenon.
- (Docket, 2nd hand) Nikon about the price of dishes, asking us to receive it from Artemidoros. (Received) year 29, Xandikos 28, in Alexandria.
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections P.Cair.Zen. I Edgar CC 1925 59071 (without the small, central fragment) Edgar CC, P.Cair.Zen. I, 59071 (without the small, central fragment), 1925 PMich I Edgar CC 1931 14 Edgar CC, PMich I, 14, 1931
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- -257
- Year End
- -257
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4518 x 2252
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 1826
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1826/3136v.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 3136; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1826/3136v.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.