P.Mich.inv. 3132 / Verso

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Inventory Number: P.Mich.inv. 3132
Processing Number: 1821
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: 18 x 11.1 cm
Items: 1
Lines: Recto - 8;; Verso - 1
Mounted: No
Negative: No
Conservation Status: broken off on the left and right sides
Palaeographic Description: Recto written across the fibres
Status: published
Library: Ann Arbor

Date: IIIrd century B.C.
Origin: probably Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
Provenance: Philadelpheia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
Acquisition: July 1925; Acquired from Dr. Kondilios
Language: Greek
Genre: Documentary
Author: Unknown
Type of Text/Title of Work: Letter
Content: Letter probably written by a nomarch or another local functionary, who asks Zenon to make a further inquiry in a local dispute about the ownership of two cows and a calf
Subject Headings: Letter writing, Greek--Egypt.; Property--Egypt.; Justice--Egypt.; Sellings--Cows--Egypt.; Theft--Egypt.
Persons: Zenon (son of Agreophon) (see Pros.Ptol. I 80 + add.);; Nechthminis, potamophylax(?) (see Pros.Ptol. II 4969; Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 137);; Tetoramous(?), potamophylax(?) (see Pros.Ptol. II 4972; Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 137);; (unnamed) wife of [- - -]
Translation: (Recto); [- - -] to Zenon greeting. You wrote to me about the two cows and [the calf, bidding me hand them over to - - -]. But the peasants object, saying that they have bought them from [- - -] through whom the money has been given, lest we should be thouthgt to have acted high-handedly [- - -] we have sent Nechthminis and Tetoramous(?) [- - - in order that] those who were tried about this very matter [should be confronted] with them before you. Please [therefore examine them and] write to me to say whom the cattle are to be delivered to; for [we are keeping] the cows and the calf [until you write] about them. For indeed the people of the village bear witness [that the man had gone off] to the Isieion and that his wife had sold the cattle in [his] absence. Farewell.; (Verso); To Zenon.
Papyri.info Link: https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1821

Information on Publications

Publications: Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections

PMich I Edgar CC 1931 98 Edgar CC, PMich I, 98, 1931 -- Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 137 (line 4). - Line 3: read dokomen bia[, instead of dokomen en bia[ (PH) Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 137 (line 4). - Line 3: read dokomen bia[, instead of dokomen en bia[ (PH)

Availability/System Requirements

Institution: sc

Cataloging

Cataloger: PH
Year Begin: -299
Year End: -200

Technical Details

Collection: Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)
Image Size: 4608 x 3480
File Size: 2 MB
Record: 1821
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1821/3132v_a.tif

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Full citation: "P.Mich.inv. 3132; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1821/3132v_a.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PMich I	Edgar CC	1931	98	Edgar CC, PMich I, 98, 1931 -- Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 137 (line 4). - Line 3: read dokomen bia[, instead of dokomen en bia[ (PH)	Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 137 (line 4). - Line 3: read dokomen bia[, instead of dokomen en bia[ (PH)