P.Mich.inv. 5638
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 5638
- Processing Number
- 2523
- Section/Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- Archive of Sabinus and Apollinarius
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 13 X 21.7 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 25
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes? (field photo)
- Conservation Status
- two strips are missing, at the upper and lower left edge; broken at left and right: there should have been (at least) 1 column of writing before what is preserved, and another after it
- Palaeographic Description
- See electronic version of PMich VIII, 501
- Status
- published
- Library
- Cairo
Contents
- Date
- IInd century A.D.
- Origin
- perhaps Alexandria, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 29-132*-DI
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Unknown (Gaius Iulius Apollinarius?)
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Private Letter
- Content
- Fragment of letter (from or to Apollinarius?), concerning the writer's journeys to Rome and back from Rome to Alexandria and some business he is making with his correspondent
- Persons
- Iulianus;
- Aurelianus;
- Philetas
- Geographica
- Syria; Asia; Achaia; Rome; Alexandria
- Translation
- . . . Let us nevertheless see their gratitude when the materials are prepared and dressed. Concerning the purple dye I can write you nothing until it comes from the dyeshop. If I learn anything about it sooner, I will let you know. In the letters that I sent by Aurelian I wrote you to get from Philetas four . . . which I left with him, but nonetheless I wrote to him also about this, as well as the itinerary that I made through Syria, Asia, and Achaea, as far as Rome. If by luck you come to Alexandria, [buy(?)] for me . . . Marseilles flasks so that [I may not put off giving thanks(?)] for the favors of the lord Sarapis . . .
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2523
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich VIII Winter JG-Youtie HC 1982 501 Winter JG-Youtie HC, PMich VIII, 501, 1982
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 100
- Year End
- 199
Technical Details
- Record
- 2523
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2523/1
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