P.Mich.inv. 157 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 157
- Processing Number
- 1468
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 10 x 11 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-11
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- This dark-brown papyrus is cut off rather regularly at all sides except the bottom which has been severely torn.Some damage along the 4 vertical folds. (TC) The text is totally lost after its eleventh line.
- Palaeographic Description
- The writing is rather large and thick and somewhat detached.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- 156/157 A.D.
- Origin
- Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt (?)
- Acquisition
- purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- documentary
- Author
- Papontos, alias Patas
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- application for payment
- Content
- The present text is a request for payments of money for a particular service rendered. Our application asks for the transportation costs for chaff to be used in firing the kiln of the pottery establishment on the lower estate.
- Subject Headings
- Crop residues--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Pottery, Classical--Oxyrhynchite Nome (Egypt)
- Firing (Ceramics)--Oxyrhynchite Nome (Egypt)
- Invoices--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
- Persons
- Papontos,
- Patas,
- Matreas,
- Epimas,
- Heras.
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- "Papontos, alias Patas, overseer of the lower estate and upper estate, to the most honorable Matreas, greetings.
- If it should seem best to you, lord, send to Epimas and Heras for trasnporting chaff for firing the pots in the pottery establishment of the lower for the production of the twentieth year (x drachmas), for which I shall furnish an accounting . . . "
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1468
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections Le Monde Grec Hanson AE 1975 609-610 Pl XIV Hanson AE, Le Monde Grec, 609-610, 1975, Pl XIV PTheon Sijpesteijn PJ 1976 12 Pl XII Sijpesteijn PJ, PTheon, 12, 1976, Pl XII
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 156
- Year End
- 157
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2586 x 5079
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 1468
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1468/157r.tif
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- Manifest
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:1468:157R.TIF
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"P.Mich.inv. 157; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1468/157r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 04, 2024.