P.Mich.inv. 3112 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3112
- Processing Number
- 1801
- 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
- 32.75 x 20.6 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 9;
- Verso - 4
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- damaged on the right side
- Palaeographic Description
- good chancery hand; Recto written across the fibres
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- July 5, 253 B.C.
- Origin
- Unknown place, Egypt
- Provenance
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Acquisition
- July 1925; Acquired from Dr. Kondilios
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Kriton
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Business Letter
- Content
- Letter from Kriton to Zenon, requesting him to buy a hundred artabai of wheat for the needs of the household of a subordinate, who was bringing an aunt to live in Philadelpheia
- Subject Headings
- Commercial correspondence--Egypt.
- Measures and weights, Ancient.
- Philadelphia (Extinct city)
- Wheat--Transportation--Egypt.
- Women--Egypt.
- Household supplies--Egypt.
- Persons
- Kriton;
- Zenon (son of Agreophon) (see Pros.Ptol. I 80 + add.);
- Polemon (see Pros.Ptol. V 13691);
- (unnamed) Polemon's aunt
- Geographica
- Philadelpheia
- Translation
- (Recto)
- Kriton to Zenon greeting. As our employee Polemon is transferring his mother's sister to Philadelphia, he has asked me to write to you to have a hundred artabai of wheat bought for him, in order that he may have a supply to feed the household. You will do me a favour then by buying it for him as advantageously as possible. And as soon as you buy it, [[- - -]] write to us and to Polemon, in order that we may know and may get the price from him and send it to you. Farewell. Year 33, Pachon 14.
- (Verso)
- To Zenon.
- To Philadelpheia. Kriton.
- (docket, 2nd hand, upside down) About purchase of 100 artabai of wheat)
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1801
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich I Edgar CC 1931 42 Edgar CC, PMich I, 42, 1931
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- -253
- Year End
- -253
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2832 x 2320
- File Size
- 874 KB
- Record
- 1801
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1801/3112v.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 3112; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1801/3112v.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.