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HGV: P.Coll. Youtie 1 17 [source] [xml]

Title Private Letter
Publications P.Coll. Youtie 1 17
More in series P.Coll. YoutieMore in series P.Coll. Youtie, vol. 1
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Origin unbekannt
More from unbekannt
Material Papyrus
Date 20. Mai 37 v.Chr. (?)
More from the period between 37 BCE and 36 BCE
Print Illustrations Plate III B
Subjects Brief (privat); Diogenes an Dionysios; Geschäftsangelegenheiten; πορεῖον; Steuer (στέφανος); Namen
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Trismegistos: 5042 [source]

Publications P. Coll. Youtie 1 17 (Hanson, Ann Ellis; 1976)
Inv. no. Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 3279
Date BC 37 May 20?
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt[found & written]
People mentioned people

Catalog Record: michigan.apis.1921 [xml]

Title private letter
Author Diogenes
Summary The text is a business letter, in which Diogenes has written to Dionysios to urge him about a business matter involving two donkeys for which Pasis is the donkey driver - a matter which Diogenes claims he and Dionysios have already discussed in person at a previous meeting in the village of Theogenes.
Citations Hanson AE, PColl Youtie I, 17, 1976, Pl III
P.CollYoutie:1:17
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 3279
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 7 x 21 cm.
Condition The papyrus is almost intact.; a small strip, 1.5 x 4 cm., was detached at the lower left-hand margin, resulting in the loss of two or three characters in each of the last four lines of the body of the letter (lines 14-17). After the letter was written, it was folded in half vertically twice, and then in half horizontally twice, forming sixteen equal panels. The first horizontal fold damaged a number of letters in line 9. Although these losses present difficulties for reading, the flow of meaning in the document is never in doubt.
Lines 1-21
Recto/Verso Source of description: Recto + Verso
Hands The address on the verso is centered just below the first horizontal fold. In the panel to the left of this address are two additional lines. All the writing on the verso was added after the letter was folded, because it was placed on the only two exterior surfaces of the folded letter. The name of the addressee, Dioysios, would have been written first and then, as an afterthought, someone, perhaps Diogenes himself, decided that additional information ought to be available to the carrier of the letter.;The hand which produced the letter is a neatly-formed cursive, similar to that in PMert. I 7 (2nd half of Ist century B.C.), or to that in Schubart, Gr. Pal. 41, Abb. 17 (BGU VI 1282), a contract from the Fayum for the joint lease of a pottery shop, dated to the end of the IInd cent. B. C. or to the beginning of the 1st cent. B. C. The hand of this letter, however, is distinctive in that it sometimes forms omega in such a way that it resembles the omegas produced by cursive hands of more than a century earlier. That is to say, a cursory glance at such an omega in this hand gives the impression of a rather conventional "h" shaped eta or of the first three strokes of the English capital letter "W". In spite of this archaic quality of the omegas, the general impression of the hand supports a date in the 1st century B. C.
Origin Arsinoite nome, Ptolemaic Egypt (?) (TC)
More from Arsinoite nome, Ptolemaic Egypt (?) (TC)
Language Greek
Date May 20, 37 B.C. (?)
More from the period between 37 BCE and 36 BCE
Note (general) Location: Ann Arbor
Note (general) Pub. status: Recto + Verso
Note (related) -
Subjects Theogenes; Theogonis (Extinct city); Letter writing, Greek--Egypt.; Drovers--Egypt.; Donkeys--Egypt.; Business communication--Egypt.; Papyrus; documentary
Associated Names Diogenes; Dionysios; Pasis; Orsenouphis
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Citations

DDbDP transcription: p.coll.youtie.1.17 [xml]

ca. 37 BC ?

r
Διογένης ⟦Διογένης⟧
Διονυσίῳ χαί(ρειν)· καλῶς
ποιήσεις περὶ οὗ σε
ἠξίωσα ἐν τῆι
5Θεογενου(*) περὶ τῶν
δύο πορήων(*), ὧν
ὀνηλάτης Πᾶ̣σ̣ις, γρά-
ψαι Ὀρσενούφει ἵνα
  ̣η̣  ̣ρης  ̣  ̣ εἰς τὸν
10στέφανον. δὸς δὲ
τὸ ἐπιστόλιον αὐτῷ
τῷ ὀνηλάτηι ἵνα
ἀποδοι(*) τῷ Ὀρσενούφει,
[καὶ] μὴ ἐν παρέργῳ.
15[το]ῦτο δὲ ποιήσας
[ἔ]σηι πλή̣ρω̣[ς] κεχαρισ-
[μέν]ο̣ς.
ἔρρωσο (ἔτους) ιε Παχὼ(ν) κβ v
(hand 2)   ̣  ̣ς Διογένο(υς)
20Διονυσίωι
  ̣  ̣γ̣ε̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣( )

Apparatus


^ r.5. l. Θεογένους
^ r.6. l. πορείων
^ r.13. l. ἀποδῶι

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APIS Translation (English)

"Diogenes to Dionysios, greeting.; In regard to the matter which I asked you about in the town of Theogenes concerning the two pack-animals for which Pasis is the driver, please write to Orsenouphis so that he may make the payment for the stephanos. Give the letter to this donkey driver so that he may deliver it to Orsenouophis and with dispatch. If you do this, you will be totally obliging.; Farewell. Year 15, Pachon 22."