P.Mich.inv. 3214 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3214
- Processing Number
- 1878
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto
- Connections
- Zenon archive
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 10 x 20.4 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 14
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- slightly broken off on the right side; damage along some folds
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IIIrd century B.C.
- Origin
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Provenance
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Acquisition
- November 1925; Acquired from Brummer
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- P[- - -]
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Memorandum
- Content
- Request by one of Zenon's employees, for money and wheat for his household in Philadelphia and for some clothes to be sent down the river for himself.
- Subject Headings
- Clothing and dress--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Travel, Ancient.
- Festiva;s--Egypt.
- Letter writing, Greek--Egypt.
- Drachma.
- Measures and weights, Ancient.
- Wages--Egypt.
- Payment--Egypt.
- Wheat--Transportation--Egypt.
- Wine and wine making--Egypt.
- Persons
- Zenon (son of Agreophon) (see Pros.Ptol. I 80 + add.);
- P[- - -]
- Geographica
- Alexandria
- Translation
- Memorandum to Zenon from . . . Will you kindly, as I requested of you in Alexandria also, give those at home 10 drachmai for expenses and, if possible, ten artabai of wheat for the festival or, if not, the six, and a jar of wine? And about the himation and chiton, see to it that they are brought down to me in town; and you shall receive the price immediately. May you prosper.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1878
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich I Edgar CC 1931 97 Edgar CC, PMich I, 97, 1931
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- -299
- Year End
- -200
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3480 x 4608
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 1878
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1878/3214r.tif
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- Manifest
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"P.Mich.inv. 3214; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1878/3214r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.