Business LetterDionysodorosAPISmichigan.apis.1808(MiU)1808p.mich.1.220163;1;22p.mich;1;2219241924P.Mich.inv. 3119Letter from Dionysodoros to Zenon, to whom he asks to send papyrus rollsLocation: Ann ArborPub. status: Recto + VersoZenon archiveGreek1 papyrus ; 15 x 19.7 cmcompleteRecto - 9;;Verso - 2Source of description: Recto + VersoJuly 29, 257 B.C.Unknown place, (Lower) EgyptDionysodoros (eklogistes) (see Pros.Ptol. I 74 = 147 + add.)Zenon (son of Agreophon) (see Pros.Ptol. I 80 + add.)Apollonios (dioiketes) (see Pros. Ptol. I 16 + add.)Apollonides
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(Recto);;Dionysodoros to Zenon greeting. We hear that the yacht (keles) has sailed past with the papyrus rolls on board. Will you kindly then send us the ten rolls which Apollonios ordered to be given us? Give them to Apollonides, the bearer of this letter, in order that we may not be unduly behindhand. Farewell. Year 29, Daisios 29.;;(Verso);;(Docket, 2nd hand) Dionysodoros, about papyrus rolls.
Edgar CC, PMich I, 22, 1931 -- L. 2: read to[[plo]]n keleta instead of ta[[pa.]]n keleta: the scribe probably intended first to write to ploion. (PH)P.Mich.:1:22