P.Mich.inv. 3757 / Verso
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3757
- Processing Number
- 2091
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto (along the fibers); Verso (also along the fibers) contains the ends of 15 lines of a deed of suretywith the last two in tachygraphy.
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 21.2 x 10.1 cm.
- Items
- 2
- Lines
- 1-9
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- The papyrus, as far as it is preserved, is quite regularly broken off on all sides except the bottom, where the left hand corner has been lost.
- Palaeographic Description
- Written in a fairly clear semicursive. At the left there is a free margin of over 1.5 cm., at the top of approximately 1 cm.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- March 17, 464 A.D.
- Origin
- Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- purchased by Prof. Boak in 1925 (report submitted by H.I. Bell, dated May 2, 1925); described as coming from Behneseh (Oxyrhynchus)
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Theon,
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Petition
- Content
- This document contains the beginning of a petition adressed to Flavius Joseph, a riparius
- Persons
- Flavius Bibianus, consul,
- Flavius Joseph, riparius,
- Theon, deacon of Oxyrhynchus
- Geographica
- Oxyrhynchus,
- Alexandria
- Translation
- "The year after the consulship of Flavius Bibianus the most illustrious and the one to be appointed, 21 Phamenoth. To Flavius Joseph the venerable councillor and riparius of the city of the Oxyrhynchites from Theon, deacon, of the same city. Not long ago I was forced to make the trip downstream to Alexandria because of our business . . ."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2091
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections JOByz 36 Sijpesteijn PJ 1986 19-20 SB XVIII, 13596 Sijpesteijn PJ, JOByz 36, 19-20, 1986 -- SB XVIII, 13596
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 464
- Year End
- 464
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 5953 x 4349
- File Size
- 3 MB
- Record
- 2091
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2091/3757v.tif
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- Manifest
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:2091
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- Full citation
-
"P.Mich.inv. 3757; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2091/3757v.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2025.