APIS Translation (English)
"It is Mena who writes to his lord, his beloved father. Rejoice in the Lord. I know very well that I have brought inconvenience upon your fatherhood, and I have brought the brothers to the field . . . "
Catalog Record: michigan.apis.1376 [xml]
| Title | letter |
|---|---|
| Author | Mena |
| Summary | The text is the beginning of a private letter from a certain Mena to his father. We only learn from the remaining part of the letter that the writer acknowledges that he has caused his father certain inconveniences and that the brother have been forced to work in the field. It is unclear whether these are relatives of the writer or whether the letter belongs in the context of a monastery. |
| Citations | Witte B, Archiv 36, 79, 1990 -- SB Kopt 294 |
| Inv. Id | P.Mich.inv. 1297 |
| Support/Dimensions | 1 papyrus ; 6.5 x 5.5 cm. |
| Condition | This papyrus is light-brown in color and is regularly broken off at all sides. (TC) The width of the present fragment roughly corresponds with that of the original fragment. |
| Lines | 1-8 |
| Recto/Verso | Source of description: Recto + Verso |
| Hands | Written in a regular and meticulous hand somewhat resembling a book-hand. In the right margin there are traces of red ink which is more predominant on the verso. (TC) |
| Origin | unknown |
| Language | Coptic |
| Date | Vth/VIth century A.D. (?) (TC) |
| Note (general) | Location: Ann Arbor |
| Note (general) | Pub. status: Recto; Verso contains four lines of writing |
| Note (related) | - |
| Subjects | -; Fathers and sons--Egypt.; Papyrus; documentary |
| Associated Names | Mena |
| Images | Recto thumbnail |
| Images | Recto medium |
| Images | Recto large |
| License |  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. |
Linked Data
RDF/XML | Turtle | N-Triples | JSON | Graph Visualization