P.Mich.inv. 3139 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3139
- Processing Number
- 1829
- Section/Side
- Recto +Verso
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto (written across the fibres) + Verso
- Connections
- + P.Cair. inv. Nr. unknown; Zenon archive
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 17.3 x 10.5 cm (Michigan fragment only)
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 7;
- Verso - 3 (Michigan fragment: 1 only)
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- a few letters missing between the two fragments; broken on the right side
- Palaeographic Description
- Recto written across the fibres
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- July or August, 254 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
- Ag[- - -], Phanotheos & Peton
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Letter Summoning a Defendant
- Content
- Letter sent by a board of three judges (chrematistai) to Zenon, asking him to deliver a copy of a complaint to the defendant, Neoptolemos, and to send him to them for trial
- Subject Headings
- Letter writing, Greek--Egypt.
- Judges--Egypt.
- Trials--Egypt.
- Judgments--Egypt.
- Complaints (Civil procedure)--Egypt.
- Persons
- Ag[- - -], (chrematistes) (see Pros.Ptol. III, 7956);
- Phanotheos, (chrematistes) (see Pros.Ptol. III, 8012);
- Peton, (chrematistes) (see Pros.Ptol. III, 8002);
- Zenon (son of Agreophon) (see Pros.Ptol. I 80 + add.);
- Theon;
- Onnophris;
- Neoptolemos
- Translation
- (Recto)
- Ag[- - -], Phanotheos (and) Peton to Zenon greeting. We have [sent you] a copy of the petition sent to us from Theon, [which] Onnophris [presented] against Neoptolemos. Deliver the indictment(?) then to Neoptolemos [and] send him to us in order that he may be tried on the charge of his accuser [- - -]. If he fails to appear, we will pronounce judgment against him in favour of [the petitioner's claims(?)]. And also write to us. Farewell. Year 32, Daisios [. . .].
- (Verso)
- To Zenon.
- (Docket, 2nd hand) Year 32, Epeiph 20. Against Neoptolemos.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1829
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich I Edgar CC 1931 39 Edgar CC, PMich I, 39, 1931 -- BL V, 70 (line 5). - L. 1: read Phanotheos rather than Phinotheos (= Philotheos?). (PH) BL V, 70 (line 5). - L. 1: read Phanotheos rather than Phinotheos (= Philotheos?). (PH)
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- E. Seidl, Ptolemaeische Rechtsgeschichte (Glueckstadt, 1962) p. 90-91.
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- -254
- Year End
- -254
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4608 x 3480
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 1829
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1829/3139v_a.tif
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