P.Mich.inv. 3021

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 3021

Processing Number

1742

Section/Side

Recto + Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto + Verso

Connections

-

Material

Pap

Size

16 X 21 cm

Items

1

Lines

Recto - 25

Verso - 1

Mounted

No

Negative

No

Conservation Status

nearly complete

Palaeographic Description

See electronic version of PMich VIII, 503

Status

published

Library

Cairo

Contents

Date

(Late) IInd century A.D.

Origin

unknown place (south of Memphis?), province of Egypt

Provenance

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition

24-4030F over A

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Sarapion

Type of Text/Title of Work

Private Letter

Content

Letter from Sarapion to Antonius Minor, telling his diligent but unavailing efforts to find Antonius in the course of a journey to Alexandria, and asking the latter for help in obtaining cattle for use on Sarapion's estate

Subject Headings

Administration

Agriculture

Animal

Sale

Travel

Persons

Sarapion;

Antonius Minor, former basilikos grammateus of the Diopolites(?);

(unnamed) prefect (of Egypt);

Marcus;

Ammonianos;

(men of) Morion

Geographica

Diopolite nome; Alexandria; Memphis

Translation

Sarapion to his most esteemed Antonius Minor, greeting. As I was sailing down to Alexandria in haste, it happened that I went to the lodging, which is in Memphis, of the employees of your estate, so that I might write to you from there, and I found no one who was going to you. When I sailed upriver with the prefect and fell in with our friend Marcus, I sought to discover if you were there. And since I did not find you, I made assiduous inquiries about your health, and I went upcountry delighted to learn that you were well. I write to you now, therefore, most esteemed friend, first to salute you and my lord Ammonianus and all your kin, and then to ask you by all means to lend me through Morion's men three full-grown cows, fine and large in body, since I am about to plow land that has lain fallow. It is for this that I have need of them. In order that you may accomplish this for me with dispatch, I beg you to let me know their price, and I will send it to you from here. For to Morion's man, who is in a hurry to get away, I have not been able to give the price, since it is uncertain. . . . was bought. (2nd hand) I pray for your good health, my lord, together with that of my lord Ammonianos and all your kin. Send me the cows by all means since I have need of them for the farms. And if you have a reason for going to Alexandria, come to me there by all means, for I am just now about to go there, with the gods' help.

(3rd hand: one unintelligible line).

(Verso) To Antonius Minor, former royal secretary of the Diopolite(?) nome.

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1742

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich VIII	Winter JG-Youtie HC	1951	503	Winter JG-Youtie HC, PMich VIII, 503, 1951 -- BL V, 70 on line 26	BL V, 70 on line 26

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

R. Haensch, Akten des 21. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses. Berlin, 13.-19.8.1995 (Stuttgart - Leipzig, 1997) p. 369

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

100

Year End

199

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Record

1742

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1742/1 content_copy