Business LetterNikon(?)APISmichigan.apis.1815(MiU)1815p.mich.1.160163;1;16p.mich;1;1619211921P.Mich.inv. 3126Letter from Nikon(?) to ZenonLocation: Ann ArborPub. status: Recto (written across the fibres) + VersoZenon archiveGreek1 papyrus ; 32 x 6.5 cmcomplete; damaged on the right and left sidesRecto - 4;;Verso - 2Source of description: Recto + Verso
Recto written across the fibres
June 17, 257 B.C. (received July 11, 257 B.C.)Memphis, Memphite nome, EgyptNikon(?) (see Pros.Ptol. I 98 + addPap.Lugd.Bat. XXI, p. 377)Zenon (son of Agreophon) (see Pros.Ptol. I 80 + add.)Bia (see Pros.Ptol. V 12742)
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekCommercial correspondence--Egypt.Wool--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)Women--Egypt.Rams--Egypt.DocumentaryPapyrus
(Recto);;[Nikon] to Zenon greeting. Bia is asking for the two rams' fleeces which you left behind for making yarn. Write to us therefore if they are to be given to her. For she said that she is in need of woollen yarn and is behindhand for that reason. And indeed I had written to you about this before. Farewell. Year 29, Pharmouthi 25.;;(Verso);;To Zenon.;(upside down, on the right) About fleeces(?).;;(Docket, 2nd hand) Nikon(?) about two fleeces, asking if they are to be given to Bia. (Received) year 29, Daisios 11.
Edgar CC, PMich I, 16, 1931 -- BL IX, 164 (bibliography) Scholl R, C.ptol.Sklav. II, 204, 1990P.Mich.:1:16