P.Mich.inv. 5888
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 5888
- Processing Number
- 2580
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Connections
- + P.Mich.inv. 5868h; Archive of Sabinus and Apollinarius
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 13.5 X 30 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 47
- Verso - 3
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Negative in Copenhagen
- yes (+verso)
- Conservation Status
- considerably damaged; two strips are lost from the upper and lower left
- Palaeographic Description
- See electronic version of PMich VIII, 465
- Status
- published
- Library
- Cairo
Contents
- Date
- February 20, 108 A.D.
- Origin
- unknown place, perhaps province of Arabia
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 30-C123CCH1-A (2)
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Iulius Apollinarius
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Private Letter
- Content
- Letter from Gaius Iulius Apollinarius to his mother Tasoucharion, mainly devoted to expressing his homesickness and to quieting his mother's fears for his safety and comfort
- Persons
- (Iulius) Apolinarius (Apollinarius) (see P. Mich. IX, p. 5-8);
- his mother Tasoucharion (see P. Mich. IX, p. 5-8);
- his sister(s) Iulia Sarapias (or Iulia & Sarapias?) (see P. Mich. IX, p. 5-8, and P. Mich. VIII, 466, 43-44);
- his grandaunt Sambathin (Sambathion) (see P. Mich. IX, p. 5-8);
- Ploutos;
- Eros;
- Ptolemaios ho mikros;
- [---], (his?) brother;
- Ammonous (& children);
- Betes;
- Deios;
- Ptollas;
- Ptolema[--];
- Ptollous;
- Clemes (Clemens)
- Geographica
- Alexandria; Tyre
- Translation
- [Apollinarius] to Tasoucharion, [my] lady mother, many greetings. Before all else, I pray for your good health, as it is [my wish], to make obeisance to you (and find you) in good health [. . .] and life. You ... me [. . .] if I know in the [. . .] for ... not yet [. . .] of (my) parents, and it is most of all my wish. For each time I remind myself [of you], neither do I eat, nor do I drink, but I cry [. . .] to me alone [. . .] . . . I give thanks to Sarapis and Good Fortune that while all are laboring the whole day through at cutting stones I as an officer move about doing nothing. And I received some money and wanted to send you a gift of Tyrian wares; and since you did not reply, I have not entrusted it to anyone on account of the length of the journey. For fine garments and ebony(?) and pearls and unguents are brought here in abundance(?). Therefore I ask you, my lady, to be . . . and merrily joyful; for this is a good place. For if you are grieved, I am uneasy. Do you now give yourself the trouble to make inquiry of a friend of mine at Alexandria, so that you may send to me through him coarse-fibered linens. For there is none here and the weather is very hot. I ask you seriously not to annoy my lady Iulia in anything, since you know that . . . protects me doubly(?) . . . . I pray that I may make obeisance to you, after the gods, (and find you) in good health. And if you received the set of . . . I ask you without delay to reply to me concerning your health, so that I also may have consolation. Salute Iulia, Sarapias my lady sister, grandmother Sambathion, . . ., Eros, little Ptolemaios, . . . my brother, Ammonous and their children, Betes, Dius, Ptollas, . . ., Ptollous. Clemens . . . came with his man. I greet all those at home. I pray that you be well and happy. Mecheir 25.
- (Verso) [For Tasoucharion,] my mother; deliver to Iulia . . . .
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- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2580
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich VIII Winter JG-Youtie HC 1951 465 Winter JG-Youtie HC, PMich VIII, 465, 1951 -- BL V, 70 (bibliography); BL VI, 82 (bibliography); BL VIII, 214 (l. 31; bibliography); BL IX, 161 (bibliography; date); BL X, 124 (l. 18) BL V, 70 (bibliography); BL VI, 82 (bibliography); BL VIII, 214 (l. 31; bibliography); BL IX, 161 (bibliography; date); BL X, 124 (l. 18) CPJ III Fuks A-Tcherikover V 1964 486a (l. 38-43) Fuks A-Tcherikover V, CPJ III, 486a (l. 38-43), 1964
Information on Publications--Further Republications
- Further Republications
- Rep Editor - Smallwood EM; Rep Ser. - Documents Nerva-Hadrian; 1966; pg.307b
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Davies R.W., BJb 169 (1969) p. 226, n. 4; Bowersock G.W., JRS 61 (1971) p. 232-233; Kennedy D.L., HSCP 84 (1980) p. 289-292; Strobel K., ZPE 71 (1988) p. 258-260; Perpillou-Thomas F., REG 108 (1995) p. 4.
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 108
- Year End
- 108
Technical Details
- Record
- 2580
- Link to this Item
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