P.Mich.inv. 3736 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3736
- Processing Number
- 2075
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 16.5 x 13.5 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-7
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- A light-brown papyrus regularly cut off at the top and partly at the right side.
- Palaeographic Description
- At the top there is a free margin of approx. 1.5 cm.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IVth/Vth century A.D.
- Origin
- Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- purchased by Prof. Boak in 1925 (report submitted by H.I. Bell, dated May 2, 1925); described as coming from Behneseh (Oxyrhynchus)
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- documentary
- Author
- Aurelius Timotheos and Pekyllos
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- petition to a logistes
- Content
- This very mutilated papyrus preserves the beginning of a document directed to a logistes Phoibammon of the Oxyrhynchite nome by two persons. They complain about the behaviour of a certain Aurelius Aion of their village who had them imprisoned on false accusations of theft.
- Subject Headings
- Theft--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- False imprisonment--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Appeal as from an abuse.
- Persons
- Flavius Phoibammon;
- Aurelius Timotheos;
- Pekyllos;
- Aurelius Aion
- Geographica
- Oxyrhynchite nome
- Translation
- "To Flavius Phoibammon, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelius Timotheos and Pekyllos of the same city. Aurelius Aion who lives in the same village as we do . . . and he wrote, handing it over to your goodness, and accused us and ensured that we were locked up as if we had committed the theft . . . " (TC)
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2075
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections Anagenesis 4 Sijpesteijn PJ 1986 140-2 SB XVIII, 13158 Sijpesteijn PJ, Anagenesis 4, 140-2, 1986 -- SB XVIII, 13158
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 300
- Year End
- 499
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4916 x 4677
- File Size
- 3 MB
- Record
- 2075
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2075/3736r.tif
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:2075:3736R.TIF
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"P.Mich.inv. 3736; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2075/3736r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2024.