P.Mich.inv. 3101 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3101
- Processing Number
- 1790
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto (written across the fibres) + Verso
- Connections
- Zenon archive
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 33.5 x 19 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 6;
- Verso - 2
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- The text is complete, but a rectangular fragment has been cut out of the left bottom corner of the papyrus
- Palaeographic Description
- Recto written across the fibres
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- September 19 (or 20[?]), 251 B.C.
- Origin
- perhaps Alexandria, Egypt
- Provenance
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Acquisition
- July 1925; Acquired from Dr. Kondilios
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Apollonios, dioiketes
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Business Letter
- Content
- Letter from Apollonios the dioiketes, instructing Zenon to buy him a large supply of fowl to be fattened for the table (perhaps for a festival?)
- Subject Headings
- Letter writing, Greek--Egypt.
- Game fowl--Feeding and feeds--Egypt.
- Game fowl--Transportation--Egypt.
- Persons
- Apollonios (dioiketes) (see Pros. Ptol. I 16 + add.);
- Zenon (son of Agreophon) (see Pros.Ptol. I 80 + add.);
- Dioskourides (see Pros.Ptol. I 76)
- Geographica
- Ptolemais he epi tou distomou (Ptolemais Hormou)
- Translation
- (Recto)
- Apollonios to Zenon greeting. we have need of 400 fowl for fattening and of 100 hens. Kindly then buy them for us and send them to Ptolemais on the fork of the canal to our agent Dioskourides. Farewell. Year 35, Panemos 28, Epeiph 30.
- (Verso)
- To Zenon.
- (Docket, 2nd hand) Year 35, Mesore 7. Apollonios.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1790
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich I Edgar CC 1931 48 Edgar CC, PMich I, 48, 1931 -- BL VIII 220 (bibliography); BL IX 164 (date) BL VIII 220 (bibliography); BL IX 164 (date) Light from Ancient Letters White JL 1986 25 White JL, Light from Ancient Letters, 25, 1986
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- E. Grzybek, Du calendrier macedonien au calendrier ptolemaique (Basel, 1990) p. 154-155.
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- s
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- -251
- Year End
- -251
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3072 x 2320
- File Size
- 948 KB
- Record
- 1790
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1790/3101v_b.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 3101; Verso". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1790/3101v_b.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 02, 2023.