P.Mich.inv. 151 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 151
- Processing Number
- 1454
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- + P. Mich. inv. 133
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 11.9 x 11.1 cm.
- Items
- 2
- Lines
- 1-17
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- ?
- Conservation Status
- This light brown papyrus has sustained extensive damage from large worm-holes, and therefore decipherment of the text is extremely difficult.
- Palaeographic Description
- The left margin is preserved for 11 lines, while the right runs for 16 lines.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- July 25, 154 A. D.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Provenance
- Unknown
- Acquisition
- purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary; contract
- Author
- M..ter-Senosiris and Metis-Tapsais
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Wet-nurse Contract
- Content
- Contract in which M..ter-Senosiris and Metis-Tapsais agree to nurse a slave-child found in a garbage dump.
- Persons
- M..ter Senosiris,
- Psennesis,
- Thaesis,
- Pisechthis,
- Metis-Tapsaeis,
- Ps...,
- Tbekis
- Thaesis
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- "Year 17 of Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius, Mesore 1. M..ter-Senosiris, a Persian, the daughter of Psennesis, her mother being Thaesis, aged 4x, with a scar on the left shoulder, with her guardian being her husband Pisechthis, the son of Psennesis, aged 45, agrees with Metis-Tapsais, the daughter of Psennesis, granddaughter of Ps..., her mother being Tbekis, to nurse the infant slave girl from the garbage dump, whose name is Thaesis, who was entrusted to her by her (Tapsais), for two years, receiving from her each month . . . twelve drachmae. . ."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1454
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections P.Sel.Warga (diss.) Warga RG 1988 8 SB XXII, 15614 Warga RG, P.Sel.Warga (diss.), 8, 1988 -- SB XXII, 15614
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 125
- Year End
- 125
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4165 x 4732
- File Size
- 3 MB
- Record
- 1454
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1454/151r.tif
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- Manifest
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:1454:151R.TIF
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- Full citation
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"P.Mich.inv. 151; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1454/151r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 05, 2024.