P.Mich.inv. 3218 / Recto

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 3218

Processing Number

1882

Section/Side

Recto + Verso

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto + Verso

Connections

Zenon archive

Material

Pap

Size

17.5 x 33 cm

Items

1

Lines

Recto - 29;

Verso - 3

Mounted

No

Negative

No

Conservation Status

middle part quite damaged

Palaeographic Description

L. 27-29 in Zenon's hand

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

248 or 247 B.C.

Origin

Unknown place, Egypt

Provenance

Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt

Acquisition

November 1925; Acquired from Brummer

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Unknown; Zenon

Type of Text/Title of Work

Money account

Content

Money account, perhaps a commercial agent on board a Nile boat, concerning 1,000 copper drachmai that the writer has received, and of which 701 have been repaid in various transactions

Subject Headings

Accounts--Egypt.

Arsinoë (Fayy¯um : Extinct city)

Alexandria.

Receipts (Acknowledgments)--Egypt.

Freight and freightage--Egypt.

Business--Egypt.

Drachma.

Wool--Transportation--Egypt.

Persons

Theogenes (see Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 339);

Dromon (see Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 321);

Asklepiades;

Epharmostos (son of Agreophon) (see Pros.Ptol. IV 11382; VI 16381);

Mikion (see Pros.Ptol. V 14223);

Hieron (see Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 346)

Geographica

Alexandria; Kanopos; Krokodilon polis (Arsinoiton polis); Ptolemais; Kerke

Translation

(Recto)

We have received what you paid to Theogenes in Alexandria, 1,000 copper drachmai.

Towards this you have received what Dromon in Kanopos (paid), 180 silver drachmai, and in Alexandria, what Epharmostos . . ., 140 silver drachmai; [- - -] choai at 1 drachme 1 1/2 obol each, equal 320 silver drachmai; [- - -] from Krokodilon polis [- - -]; 'for those who transferred (the freight) from the mouth (of the river) to the boat [- - -]'; and transport fare to Ptolemais [- - -]; and from Ptolemais to Kerke [- - -], equal 645 silver drachmai, which equal [- - -] at the four drachmai, 695 (copper) drachmai 4 1/2 obols; (and) 6 copper drachmai 1 obol; giving a total of: 701 copper drachmai 5 1/2 obols; remain: 298 drachmai 1/2 obol.

(2nd hand) And Mikion took 20 minas of wax, 16 (drachmai) 2 obols; and in the 38th year, he has received for '15' minas of wool, 30 drachmai; and what we have guaranteed from Hieron for '15' other minas, 30 drachmai.

(Verso: vestiges of title or docket)

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1882

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich I	Edgar CC	1931	61	Edgar CC, PMich I, 61, 1931 -- BL IV, 55 (lines 17-18). Line 26: read 16 (drachmai) 2 obols, rather than 16 (drachmai). (PH)	BL IV, 55 (lines 17-18). Line 26: read 16 (drachmai) 2 obols, rather than 16 (drachmai). (PH)

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

T. Reekmans, CE 30 (1955) p. 373.

Availability/System Requirements

Institution

sc

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

-248

Year End

-247

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

3480 x 4608

File Size

2 MB

Record

1882

Link to this Item

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