P.Mich.inv. 188
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 188
- Processing Number
- 1541
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 14.3 x 23 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 21;
- Verso - 1
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- yes (5.4670 - 1)
- Conservation Status
- Complete
- Palaeographic Description
- Handwriting of an inexperienced scribe, with uncertain orthography and clumsy construction of sentences
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- (Early) IInd century A.D.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Provenance
- Probably Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Thermouthas
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Private Letter
- Content
- Private letter from a pregnant woman to her mother
- Subject Headings
- Family--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Diet--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Romans|vCorrespondence.
- Literacy--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Women--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Home economics--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Wool--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Persons
- Thermouthas;
- Valerias, mother of Thermouthas;
- Valerius;
- Artemis;
- Nikarous;
- (another?) Valerius (husband of Thermouthas?);
- Dionysia;
- Demetrous;
- Taesis;
- (unnamed?) father of Thermouthas;
- Rodine (Rhodine)
- Geographica
- Philadelphia
- Translation
- Thermouthas to Valerias, her mother, very many greetings and continued good health. I received from Valerius a basket in which were twenty pairs of cakes of wheat and ten pairs of loaves of bread. Send me the blankets of the price (agreed on) and fine wool, four shearings. Do you give them to Valerius. We have just been seven months pregnant. I salute Artemis and the little Nikarous and Valeris my lord - I long for him in my heart - and Dionysia and Demetrous, and the little Taesis often, and all those in the house. And send me news of how my father is, since he was ill when he left me. I salute grandmother. Rhodine salutes you. I have put her out at handwork; I need her again, but I am well. Phaophi 8.
- (Verso)
- Deliver to Philadelphia to Valerias, my mother.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1541
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections Aegyptus 13 Winter JG 1933 363-366 SB V 7572 Winter JG, Aegyptus 13, 363-366, 1933 -- SB V 7572 -- BL XI, 202; BL XI, 202; Papyrological Primer, 4th edition David M-Groningen BA 1965 80 David M-Groningen BA, Papyrological Primer, 4th edition, 80, 1965 -- BL III, 189 (l. 3; 4); BL IX, 247 (l. 8-9) BL III, 189 (l. 3; 4); BL IX, 247 (l. 8-9)
Information on Publications--Further Republications
- Further Republications
- Rep. Editor - Pestman PW; Rep Ser. - New Papyrological Primer; 1990; Pg_No. 40 (with plates)
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- U. Wilcken, Archiv 11 (1935) p. 309; W. Clarysse, AncSoc 21 (1990) p. 40
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 100
- Year End
- 199
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 6106 x 8270
- File Size
- 510 KB
- Record
- 1541
- Link to this Item
-
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