P.Mich.inv. 4195 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 4195
- Processing Number
- 2156
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 8.7 x 12.8 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 18 lines
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- Broken off at the bottom. Some holes in the left half.
- Palaeographic Description
- Top margin is 2 cm, and the left margin varies from 1 to 2 cm.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- March 17 - 26, 155 A.D.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Provenance
- Unknown
- Acquisition
- July 1925; Acquired by Dr. Askren and Prof Boak from Mahammad Abdullah
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Horion, son of Kastor
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Petition
- Content
- The upper portion of a petition addressed to Ptolemaios, who in 154/5 A.D. was both royal secretary of the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome and acting strategos of the Themistes and Polemon divisions. Horion, son of Kastor complains that two donkey-drivers, roused by hevay drinking, invaded his house and attached his family. The local police force, arriving in full strength, subdued them only after considerable effort.
- Subject Headings
- Kharabat Ihrit (Egypt)
- Persons
- Ptolemaios, basilikos grammateus;
- Horion, son of Kastor;
- Kastor, father of Horion;
- Herakleides
- Geographica
- Theadelphia, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Translation
- To Ptolemaios, royal secretary of the Polemon division of the Arsinoite nome and acting strategos of the Themistes and Polemon divisions, from Horion, son of Kastor, public cultivator of the village of Theadelphia. On the 20th of the present month Phamenoth, at a late hour, a certain Herakleides, a donkey driver, and a certain other person, a stranger whose name I do not know, both of them donkey-drivers, with whom I am in no way whatever involved, becoming drunk made an assult on my house and inflicted no little violence on the members of my family, even though I have no involvement with them. And the guards assembled in their full number arrested them after great exertion ...
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2156
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections ZPE 31 Youtie HC 1978 167-9 SB XIV 12199 Youtie HC, ZPE 31, 167-9, 1978 -- SB XIV 12199
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- NL
- Year Begin
- 155
- Year End
- 155
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3172 x 4654
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 2156
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2156/4195r.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 4195; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2156/4195r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.