P.Mich.inv. 946 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 946
- Processing Number
- 3177
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Connections
- Archive of Kronion son of Apion, nomographos of the grapheion of Tebtynis
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 11 x 29.5 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 33
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- Slightly damaged on the right side
- Palaeographic Description
- A reather heavy upright cursive (Boak)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- February 4, 48 A.D.
- Origin
- Either Talei or Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Tebtynis, Polemonos meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- June 1922; acquired from Nahman through the British Museum
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Documentary
- Author
- Papontos son of Papontos
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Petition to a Strategos
- Content
- Petition, addressed to Apollonios, strategos of the division of Polemon, by Papontos, son of Papontos, who complains that his house was entered and robbed of some material and that when he and a village police-man discovered part of it in the house of Patynion, the latter abused him and caused a child whom he was carrying on his shoulder to fall to the ground
- Persons
- Apollonios, strategos of the Polemonos meris;
- Papontos son of Papontos, georgos;
- (unnamed) epistatai of Talei;
- Patynion son of Herakles (see also P. Mich. V, 328);
- Claudius, emperor
- Geographica
- Arsinoite nome; Talei, Polemonos meris; legomenos Psenantitos (kleros)
- Translation
- To Apollonios, strategos of the Arsinoite nome, from Papontos, son of Papontos, a resident of Talei in the division of Polemon, a farmer of the so-called (allotment) of Psenantis among the residents of Talei in the same division. Whereas certain persons came as robbers into the house which I have in the aforesaid village of Talei and carried off ten wooden beams and a mortar belonging to me, and whereas, while I was making an investigation into the matter in company with the epistates of the village of Talei, I found as evidence of the theft in the house of Patynion, son of Herakles, a part of the stolen beams, five in number, and whereas, while I was arguing with him about these, he insulted me outrageously and in the scuffle a child whom I had on my shoulder fell to the ground in such a manner that it is in danger of its life, I ask you to write to the epistatai of Talei to send the accused Patynion to you for the coming assizes. Farewell.
- The eighth year of Claudius, Mecheir 10.
- Papontos, about 45 years old, tall, light brown in color, with a scar on the left side of his nose below the eyebrow.
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3177
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich V Boak AER 1944 230 Boak AER, PMich V, 230, 1944 -- BL IV, 54 (l. 4; 6) BL IV, 54 (l. 4; 6)
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- H.C. Youtie, Eos 48, 1 (1956) p. 379-381 [= H.C. Youtie, Scriptiunculae II (Amsterdam, 1973) p. 379-381]; Tomasz Derda, ARSINOITHS NOMOS. Administration of the Fayum under Roman Rule, Warsaw 2006, p. 89
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 48
- Year End
- 48
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3480 x 4608
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 3177
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3177/946r.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 946; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3177/946r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 09, 2024.