P.Mich.inv. 3785 / Recto
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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
Contents
- 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
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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
- Image Size
- 2962 x 4782
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 2111
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2111/3785r.tif
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- Manifest
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:2111
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- Full citation
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"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 29, 2025.