P.Mich.inv. 3785 / Recto

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P.Mich.inv. 3785

Record Details

Inventory Number: P.Mich.inv. 3785
Processing Number: 2111
Section/Side: Recto
Image Side: Recto

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side: Recto; Verso is blank
Connections: -
Material: Pap
Size: 6.7 x 18 cm.
Items: 1
Lines: 1-16
Mounted: No
Negative: No
Conservation Status: A light-brown papyrus regularly cut off at the right side and partly at the left side. It is also regularly broken off at the top and partly at the bottom. Three vertical folds are still visible.
Palaeographic Description: A free margin of approx. 1 cm. free at the right side. (TC)
Status: published
Library: Ann Arbor

Date: IVth/Yth century 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: unknown
Type of Text/Title of Work: letter
Content: In the preserved part of this letter the writer asks the unknown addressee to send (or have sent) some people for the use of the church of Phoibammon and to hand over to a certain Phoibammon, an assistant, one gold solidus.
Subject Headings: Church finance--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.; Church finance--Egypt--Oxyrhynchite Nome.
Persons: Phoibammon
Geographica: Village of Petne
Translation: ". . . so that . . . to bring them in the village Petne for the use of the holy church of Phoibammon. Please, provide the one gold solidus to Phoibammon, the symmachos, and also send word to Theodoros."
Papyri.info Link: https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2111

Information on Publications

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

Aegyptus 66 Sijpesteijn PJ 1986 75-6 SB XVIII 13110 Sijpesteijn PJ, Aegyptus 66, 75-6, 1986 -- SB XVIII 13110 -- BL XI, 223 (l. 9, 11, 13, 14, 15); BL XI, 223 (l. 9, 11, 13, 14, 15);

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography: N. Gonis, ZPE 119 (1997) p. 145-146

Cataloging

Cataloger: TC
Year Begin: 300
Year End: 499

Technical Details

Collection: Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)
Image Size: 2962 x 4782
File Size: 2 MB
Record: 2111
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2111/3785r.tif

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Full citation: "P.Mich.inv. 3785; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2111/3785r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 30, 2025.

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
Aegyptus 66	Sijpesteijn PJ	1986	75-6	SB XVIII 13110	Sijpesteijn PJ, Aegyptus 66, 75-6, 1986 -- SB XVIII 13110 -- BL XI, 223 (l. 9, 11, 13, 14, 15);	BL XI, 223 (l. 9, 11, 13, 14, 15);