P.Mich.inv. 3138 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3138
- Processing Number
- 1828
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto (written across the fibres); Verso is blank
- Connections
- + P.Cair. Inv. 48937; Zenon archive
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 15 x 13 cm (P.Mich.inv. 3138 only); total size: ca.29 x 13 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 9
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- complete, broken in the middle
- Palaeographic Description
- written across the fibres
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- ca. 246-221 B.C. (reign of Ptolemy III)
- Origin
- unknown place, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Provenance
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Acquisition
- bought in July, 1925, from Kondilios
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Attalos
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Petition to the King
- Content
- Petition addressed to the king by a certain Attalos, to complain that Ptolemaios, praktor idiotikon, had done nothing to help him recover the money owed to him by a certain Apollonia and by the man (her legal guardian?) who had undertaken to produce her in court
- Subject Headings
- Courts--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Petition, Right of--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Debtor and creditor--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Debt law and legislation--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Guardian and ward--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Payment--Egypt--Arsinoite Nome.
- Persons
- Ptolemaios (III), basileus;
- Attalos;
- Ptolemaios meion, son of Ptolemaios, praktor idiotikon (see Pros.Ptol. I 1739);
- Serambos, ho para Aristomachou kathestamenos strategos <OR ho para Aristomachou kathestamenou strategou> (see Pros.Ptol. (see Pros.Ptol. I 331);
- Aristomachos, (strategos) <OR kathestamenos strategos> (see Pros.Ptol. I, 228 + add.);
- Apollonios, polodamastes (see Pros.Ptol. V 13589);
- Apollonia;
- Aphthonetos, strategos (see Pros.Ptol. I, 236 + add.)
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- To King Ptolemaios greeting from Attalos. I am being wronged by Ptolemaios, younger son of Ptolemaios, exactor of private debts. For though Serambos, strategos appointed by Aristomachos, wrote an order to Ptolemaios to the effect that since Apollonios had not even yet produced Apollonia, if he should not even now produce her in ten days, Ptolemaios was to exact 43 drachmai from Apollonios the horse-breaker and pay them to me, and though he received the order and though Apollonios has not produced Apollonia and the term has expired, and on top of that a further period has elapsed, in spite of my demands 'he will not pay' me the 43 drachmai. I beg you therefore, if so it please you, not to suffer me to be wronged by him, but to order Aphthonetos the strategos to write to Serambos that, if my story be true, he is to exact from Ptolemaios according to the edict three times the sum which should have been exacted, or 129 drachmai, and pay this to me; and so through you may I obtain justice. May you prosper.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1828
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections JEA 14 Edgar CC 1928 289-291 SB IV 7446 Edgar CC, JEA 14, 289-291, 1928 -- SB IV 7446 PMich I Edgar CC 1931 71 Edgar CC, PMich I, 71, 1931
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- U. Wilcken, Archiv 9 (1930) p. 235.
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- -246
- Year End
- -221
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4608 x 3480
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 1828
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1828/3138r_a.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 3138; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1828/3138r_a.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.