P.Mich.inv. 6949 / Recto

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Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 6949

Processing Number

3038

Section/Side

Recto-verso

Image Side

Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

recto-verso

Connections

-

Material

Pap

Size

15.8 x 6.9 cm.

Items

1

Lines

1-14

Mounted

No

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

This narrow light-brown papyrus was cut to meet the requisite format of an official document comprises one complete column of text. Papyrus is broken into two halves at its middle: otherwise the papyrus has sustained no damage.

Palaeographic Description

Written in a small and fairly quick hand with little linking of the letters. It is consistent and readable despite a certain untidiness, and parallels to this hand suggest a date in the third century B.C., cp. P. Lond. I 106 (261 or 223 B.C.), PCZ 59369 (240 B.C.), and P. Petrie I 19 (225 B.C.). The text on the verso is written across the fibers.

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

August 22, 240 B.C.

Origin

Athribis, Herakleides meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt

Provenance

Athribis, Herakleides meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt (?)

Acquisition

bought in 1982

Language

Greek

Genre

documentary

Author

unknown

Type of Text/Title of Work

a prosangelma

Content

This papyrus contains a prosangelma, reporting a crime to the police personified by Nicanor, a police officer. The text gives a concise and accurate report of the time and circumstances of the transgression, of the loss incurred and of the estimated damage. The question of the identity of the criminals is not debated, nor is there any call for a court settlement of the matter.

Subject Headings

Complaints (Civil procedure)--Egypt--Athribis (Extinct city)

Theft--Egypt--Athribis (Extinct city)

Tamarix--Egypt--Athribis (Extinct city)

Police--Egypt--Athribis (Extinct city)--Records and correspondence.

Persons

Nicanor, phylakites.

Geographica

Athribis,

Alexandria.

Translation

"The seventh year; on the fifth of Epeiph. Declaration (adressed) to Nicanor, police officer of Athribis, police officer of Athribis, and to his fellow policemen. While I was in Alexandria, some people entered my property and cut down thirty tamarisks, twenty of which were worth three drachmas each, which makes sixty drachmas, and ten worth two drachmas apiece, that is twenty drachmas, a total of eighty drachmas. (Verso) To Nicanor."

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3038

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
Atti XVII Congr Int 3	Parca M	1983	1227-32	Plate	SB XVI 12823	Parca M, Atti XVII Congr Int 3, 1227-32, 1983, Plate -- SB XVI 12823 -- BL XI, 221	BL XI, 221

Cataloging

Cataloger

TC, MA

Year Begin

-240

Year End

-240

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

2766 x 4205

File Size

2 MB

Record

3038

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3038/6949r.tif content_copy

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