P.Mich.inv. 5252
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 5252
- Processing Number
- 2399
- Section/Side
- a; Recto + Verso
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 13 X 10.5 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Recto - 16
- Verso - 2
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- considerably damaged on the right side, and broken at the bottom. The original could not be found (March 1997)
- Palaeographic Description
- See electronic version of PMich VIII, 489
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IInd century A.D.
- Origin
- unknown place (Alexandria?), province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 28-152*-BI
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Longinus Clemens
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Private Letter
- Content
- Letter from Longinus Clemens to Ptolemaios, concerning business arrangements
- Persons
- Longinus Clemens, veteran;
- Ptolemaios;
- Apolinarin (Apollinarius? Apolinarion?);
- Capito
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- Longinus to Ptolemaios, his brother, many greetings. Before all else I pray for your health, and I make obeisance for you in the presence of the lord Sarapis. Know that Apollinarius(?) has given me only the 500 drachmai. Since you wrote . . ., you will do well therefore to send my grain, including what remains(?) from last year and the difference thereon. Without delaying the harvest . . ., so that I may have the benefit. . . . without my consent(?) when I was in need . . . more than the regular price. Do you therefore shut it all up in my house so that when I come, with god's help, I may find it intact. Let the work be performed(?) with care, and let everything be done as you promised me, and do you inspect with care the work on the . . . .
- (Verso)
- (2nd hand) Deliver to Ptolemaios,
- (3rd hand) from Longinus Clemens, veteran
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich VIII Winter JG-Youtie HC 1951 489 Winter JG-Youtie HC, PMich VIII, 489, 1951 -- BL III, 116 on line 7 BL III, 116 on line 7
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- N. Lewis, CP 48 (1953) p. 54.
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 100
- Year End
- 199
Technical Details
- Record
- 2399
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2399/1
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