P.Mich.inv. 1514 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 1514
- Processing Number
- 1455
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 24 x 10 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-10
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- This light-brown papyrus is complete except for a strip of papyrus missing at central part of the bottom edge. Regularly cut at the top and at the left edge. (TC)
- Palaeographic Description
- For a similar hand, cf. Stegemann, Koptische Palaeographie, taf. 6, col. 3 (ca. 330-340 A.D.).
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IVth century A.D.
- Origin
- unknown
- Provenance
- unknown
- Acquisition
- November 1924
- Language
- Coptic
- Genre
- documentary
- Author
- Heliodoros
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- letter
- Content
- Letter from one Heliodoros, probably of Fau, to one Apa Abraham a monk or abbey resident elsewhere. The writer asks for news on the health of Apa Abraham.
- Persons
- Heliodoros,
- Apa Abraham.
- Geographica
- Fau.
- Translation
- Heliodoros, writing, inquiring after his dear father and servant of God, Apa Abraham, the anchorite. Salutations in the Lord! Before everything I enquire after the your excellent Fatherhood with my whole heart and my whole soul. Truly, my dear Father, I cease not to think of you by day and by night since I went forth from you (and) went to Fau. And my father asked me about the health of your Fatherhood. Even as you look for us (?) so (?) we (?) look for (news of) your health . . . "
- (Verso): "Give it to the holy father and X servant of God
- Abraham. From Heliodoros."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1455
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich Coptic III Husselman EM-Worrell WH 1942 2 Husselman EM-Worrell WH, PMich Coptic III, 2, 1942
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 300
- Year End
- 399
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 6678 x 4661
- File Size
- 4 MB
- Record
- 1455
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1455/1514r.tif
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- Manifest
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:1455:1514R.TIF
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"P.Mich.inv. 1514; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1455/1514r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2024.