Private LetterThermouthasAPISmichigan.apis.1541(MiU)15412732827328sb;5;7572P.Mich.inv. 188Private letter from a pregnant woman to her motherLocation: Ann ArborPub. status: Recto + VersoGreek1 papyrus ; 14.3 x 23 cmCompleteRecto - 21;;Verso - 1Source of description: Recto + Verso
Handwriting of an inexperienced scribe, with uncertain orthography and clumsy construction of sentences
(Early) IInd century A.D.UnknownThermouthasValerias, mother of ThermouthasValeriusArtemisNikarous(another?) Valerius (husband of Thermouthas?)DionysiaDemetrousTaesis(unnamed?) father of ThermouthasRodine (Rhodine)
Probably Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekPhiladelphiaFamily--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)Diet--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)Romans;vCorrespondence.Literacy--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)Women--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)Home economics--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)Wool--Egypt--Philadelphia (Extinct city)DocumentaryPapyrus
Thermouthas to Valerias, her mother, very many greetings and continued good health. I received from Valerius a basket in which were twenty pairs of cakes of wheat and ten pairs of loaves of bread. Send me the blankets of the price (agreed on) and fine wool, four shearings. Do you give them to Valerius. We have just been seven months pregnant. I salute Artemis and the little Nikarous and Valeris my lord - I long for him in my heart - and Dionysia and Demetrous, and the little Taesis often, and all those in the house. And send me news of how my father is, since he was ill when he left me. I salute grandmother. Rhodine salutes you. I have put her out at handwork; I need her again, but I am well. Phaophi 8.;;(Verso);;Deliver to Philadelphia to Valerias, my mother.