Administrative correspondence requesting the posting of a programma Unknown APIS michigan.apis.3958 (MiU)3958 p.bingen.28 0254;;28 p.bingen;;28 78016 78016 P.Mich. inv. 7013 The end of a memorandum. Both greetings, together with the names of sender and addressee, and reference to specific circumstances are missing, and the blank space below the farewell formula shows that the letter ended there.;An administartive communication: a high-ranking official (possibly at the nome level) asks a subordinate to have a placard posted according to the guidelines laid out in an earlier (?) document and to order that a copy of the notice be posted in every village so that the individuals concerned might pay the dues expected of them. Location: Ann Arbor Pub. status: Recto; Verso is Blank. Greek 1 papyri ; 17.5 x 9.7 cm The damage to the piece is extensive: witness its tattered edges (only the left one is neatly cut along a straight line) and the substantial holes and vertical tears which mar its surface. There are three more minor fragments with traces of ink, but not certain if they belong to the same papyrus. There are some traces of the color (blue, red) of the cartonnage on the verso side 7 lines Source of description: Recto

The text is written in an expansive competent capital script which broadly recalls that of P.Petr. II 11 (1), but the later's triangular alphas and one-stroke taus or that, much smaller, of PCairZen I 59092. The text is written across the fibers.

 IIIrd century B.C. Ptolemais Hormou (?), Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, Egypt

A cemetary in the general area of El-Lahum (south of Hawara), Fayum, Egypt

 APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent. English Greek Documentary Papyrus
... to [or by] the owners of ... having drafted [or attached] the [programma] authenticated by a seal as well ... to accomplish [or pay] (?), (those) seeing to it [that] ... he having ordered to post the notice according to ... the directives of the memorandum and to command that [a copy] of the programma be posted in every village ... [in order that], having become more ..., they pay the ... in them... farewell
Parca M, PBingen, 149-153, no 28, 2000, Pl. 16 P.Bingen:28

Original record.

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