P.Mich.inv. 3122 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3122
- Processing Number
- 1811
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto (written across the fibres) + Verso
- Connections
- + P.Cair. inv. JdE 48531 (P.Cair. I, 59083); Zenon archive
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 14 x 9.5 cm (P.Cair. inv. JdE 48531: 16.5 x 9.5 cm)
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 5;
- Verso - 3 (none on P.Mich.inv. 3122)
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- P.Mich.inv. 3122 is broken off on the left side; P.Cair. inv. Nr. JdE 48531, on the right side, leaving the central part of the text missing
- Palaeographic Description
- Recto written across the fibres
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- July 21, 257 B.C. (date of reception)
- Origin
- probably Alexandria, Egypt
- Provenance
- Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Acquisition
- July 1925; Acquired from Dr. Kondilios
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Peisikles
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Business Letter
- Content
- Letter from Peisikles, a treasurer or store-keeper in the household of Alexandria, to Zenon, to whom he states the price of fish and other provisions bought by Philokrates for the travelling party
- Persons
- Peisikles (see Pros.Ptol. V 14239; Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 396);
- Zenon (son of Agreophon) (see Pros.Ptol. I 80 + add.);
- Philokrates (see Pros.Ptol. VI 16482; Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 436)
- Geographica
- Arsinoe (he Dionos)
- Translation
- (Recto)
- Peisikles to Zenon, greetings. I have written hereunder for you the price of the food [bought] through Philokrates:
- 5 parrot-wrasses (skaroi) and . . red mullets (triglai), [. . . drachmai];
- 1(?) [bluish green fish (glaukiskos)], 1 cammarus (kapparos), 4 tunnies (amiai), 2 drachmai 1 obol;
- small fish boiled (hepsetos), 2 obols 1/2;
- oysters, smooth and rough clams [- - -];
- fresh condiment, 1/2 obol;
- sycamore-fig (sykaminos), 1/2 obol;
- sumach fruit, 1/2 obol;
- cheese, 5 obols;
- salts, 5 obols;
- (equal) 6 drachmai [1 obol 1/2].
- Farewell.
- (Verso)
- To Zenon.
- (Docket, 2nd hand) Peisikles, about the food bought through Philokrates, 6 drachmai 1 obol 1/2. (Received) year 29, Daisios 21, in Arsinoe.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1811
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections P.Cair.Zen. I Edgar CC 1925 59083 Edgar CC, P.Cair.Zen. I, 59083, 1925
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- P.Mich. I, 20.
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- -257
- Year End
- -257
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4608 x 3480
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 1811
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1811/3122r_a.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 3122; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1811/3122r_a.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.