P.Mich.inv. 6630 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 6630
- Processing Number
- 2898
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto (written across the fibres); Verso is blank
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 7.3 x 7.2 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 12
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- broken off at the bottom
- Palaeographic Description
- Recto written across the fibres
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- ca. 180-189 A.D. (or 211-216 A.D.)
- Origin
- Unknown
- Provenance
- Unknown
- Acquisition
- purchased from Nahman through H.I. Bell in 1934
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Sabinus
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Private Letter
- Content
- Letter by which Sabinus informs Eutyches that Heron the Little was appointed to bear the expense of the gymnasiarchy for a two-month period in the following year
- Subject Headings
- Letter
- Persons
- Sabinus;
- Eutyches;
- Heron ho mikros, dapanetes gymnasiarchias (= future gymnasiarchos?);
- (unnamed) epistrategos
- Translation
- Sabinus to Eutyches, greetings. I want you to know that today, which is the 28th, 'Heron the Little' was appointed by the epistrategos to bear the expense of the gymnasiarchy for a period of two months, viz., since he is fourth, for Phamenoth and Pharmouthi of the approaching year 2[.] [- - -]
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2898
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich XII Browne GM 1975 658 Browne GM, PMich XII, 658, 1975 -- BL VII, 116 (l. 8); BL VIII, 217 (date) BL VII, 116 (l. 8); BL VIII, 217 (date)
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- J. Shelton, BASP 15 (1978) p. 286; J.D. Thomas, The Epistrategos in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. 2. The Roman Epistrategos (Koeln, 1982) p. 99-100.
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- s
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 180
- Year End
- 216
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3012 x 2248
- File Size
- 901 KB
- Record
- 2898
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2898/6630r_a.tif
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- Manifest
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:2898
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- Full citation
-
"P.Mich.inv. 6630; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2898/6630r_a.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2025.