Main Record
Description
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 5249
- Processing Number
- 2397
- Section/Side
- A; Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 12 X 5.5 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 5
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- broken at the bottom
- Palaeographic Description
- See electronic version of PMich VIII, 517
- Status
- published
- Library
- Cairo
Contents
- Date
- IIIrd century/IVth century A.D.
- Origin
- unknown place (perhaps Alexandria?), province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 28-136*-A
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Ptolemaios
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Private Letter
- Content
- Beginning of a letter from Ptolemaios to his mother Tamustha
- Subject Headings
- Family
- Persons
- Ptolemaios;
- his mother Tamystha
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- Ptolemaios to Tamystha, his mother, greeting. Before all else I pray for your health, and I make obeisance for you in the presence of our lord Sarapis. I sent you this letter . . . .
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich VIII Winter JG-Youtie HC 1951 517 Winter JG-Youtie HC, PMich VIII, 517, 1951
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 200
- Year End
- 399
Other Views
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