P.Mich.inv. 6859

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Inventory Number: P.Mich.inv. 6859
Processing Number: 18244
Section/Side: bulla

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side: Recto (back) + Verso (front)
Connections: -
Material: Clay
Items: 1
Mounted: No
Negative: No
Conservation Status: The letter still has a seal attached to it, about 1 cm. in diameter.
Status: published
Library: Ann Arbor

Date: VIIIth century A.D.
Origin: Monastery Apollo at Baouit
Provenance: unknown
Acquisition: purchased by Prof. Worrell in Egypt in the spring of 1936
Language: Coptic
Genre: documentary
Author: "Our Father"
Type of Text/Title of Work: letter
Content: The letter wasa written by the superior of the monastery and is addressed to the oeconomus of the same monastery
Subject Headings: Letter writing, Coptic--Egypt.; Landowners--Egypt.; Agriculture--Egypt.; Livestock--Egypt.; Unskilled labor--Egypt.
Persons: Plato;; Julius;; Enoch the peasant;; Papa Mena
Geographica: -
Translation: "That your most pious Sonship (?) may know that our son, Master Plato, has written us a letter concerning two yoke of oxen, that they should . . . . . . . . . ., belonging to our Lord the most noble (?) Dux. And send a man to the field of Julius, to the place of Enoch the peasant, if he finds (?) the place on which he is, and take the two yoke of oxen and go north to the estate, and haul them in for him. For he has written me that he won't work (?) upon it, not half a day (?) . . . . . . . . . . . I greet your most pious Sonship (?). Slavation in the Lord!"; (Verso): Give it to the most pious, honored son X Papa Mena, our Master (?). From our father."

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography: See Alain Delattre, Une lettre copte du monastere de Baouit. Reedition de P.Mich. Copt. 14, BASP 44 (2007), 87-95

Cataloging

Cataloger: AH
Year Begin: 700
Year End: 799

Technical Details

Collection: Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)
Record: 18244
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-18244/1

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Full citation: "P.Mich.inv. 6859." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-18244/1. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.