P.Mich.inv. 1297 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 1297
- Processing Number
- 1376
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso contains four lines of writing
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 6.5 x 5.5 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-8
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- This papyrus is light-brown in color and is regularly broken off at all sides. (TC) The width of the present fragment roughly corresponds with that of the original fragment.
- Palaeographic Description
- Written in a regular and meticulous hand somewhat resembling a book-hand. In the right margin there are traces of red ink which is more predominant on the verso. (TC)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- Vth/VIth century A.D. (?) (TC)
- Origin
- unknown
- Provenance
- unknown
- Acquisition
- January 1924; Acquired with Nahman lot
- Language
- Coptic
- Genre
- documentary
- Author
- Mena
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- letter
- Content
- The text is the beginning of a private letter from a certain Mena to his father. We only learn from the remaining part of the letter that the writer acknowledges that he has caused his father certain inconveniences and that the brother has been forced to work in the field. It is unclear whether these are relatives of the writer or whether the letter belongs in the context of a monastery.
- Subject Headings
- Fathers and sons--Egypt.
- Persons
- Mena
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- "It is Mena who writes to his lord, his beloved father. Rejoice in the Lord. I know very well that I have brought inconvenience upon your fatherhood, and I have brought the brothers to the field . . . "
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1376
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections Archiv 36 Witte B 1990 79 SB Kopt 294 Witte B, Archiv 36, 79, 1990 -- SB Kopt 294
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 400
- Year End
- 599
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2962 x 4701
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 1376
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1376/1297r.tif
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- Manifest
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:1376:1297R.TIF
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"P.Mich.inv. 1297; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1376/1297r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.