P.Mich.inv. 2868
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 2868
- Processing Number
- 1664
- Section/Side
- A; Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto
- Connections
- Archive of Gaius Apolinarius Niger (& family)
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 15.4 x 6.2 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 23
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- broken off on the left side and at the bottom
- Status
- published
- Library
- Cairo
Contents
- Date
- 158/159 A.D.
- Origin
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 25-S5000-courtyard
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Gaius Iulius Niger
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Petition to a Strategos
- Content
- Petition addressed by Gaius Iulius Niger to the strategos Theodoros, to whom he complains about the theft of two donkeys and gives the names of the suspected culprits
- Persons
- Theodoros, strategos [of the Herakleidou meris];
- Gaius Iulius [Niger, Antinoite] (see P. Mich. VI, 422 introd.; Eos 49 [1957/1958] 155-164);
- Therm[- - -];
- Dioskoros son of Do[- - -](?);
- (unnamed) archephodoi of Karanis [and Psenarpsenesis(?)];
- [Antoninus Pius], Emperor
- Geographica
- [Herakleidou meris of the Arsinoite nome]; Karanis; Psenarpsenesis
- Translation
- To Theodoros, strategos [of the Arsinoite nome, Herakleides division], from Gaius Iulius [Niger, Antinoite], landholder at Karanis in the [division of Herakleides, about] 52 years of age. [- - -] certain persons dug their way through the wall of the courtyard like thieves and [- - -] drove off two donkeys of mine, one a female, the other a male [- - -]
- (15 lines too fragmentary to be translated)
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1664
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections ZPE 106 Sijpesteijn PJ 1995 215-216 Pl. VIIb SB XXII, 15781 Sijpesteijn PJ, ZPE 106, 215-216, 1995, Pl. VIIb -- SB XXII, 15781 ComunicazioniVitelli Mascellari 2015 106-108 Mascellari, ComunicazioniVitelli, 106-108, 2015
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 158
- Year End
- 159
Technical Details
- Record
- 1664
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1664/1
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