Business LetterApollonios, dioiketesAPISmichigan.apis.1790(MiU)1790p.mich.1.480163;1;48p.mich;1;4819481948P.Mich.inv. 3101Letter from Apollonios the dioiketes, instructing Zenon to buy him a large supply of fowls to be fattened for the table (perhaps for a festival?)Location: Ann ArborPub. status: Recto (written across the fibres) + VersoZenon archiveGreek1 papyrus ; 33.5 x 19 cmThe text is complete, but a rectangular fragment has been cut out of the left bottom corner of the papyrusRecto - 6;;Verso - 2Source of description: Recto + Verso
Recto written across the fibres
September 19 (or 20[?]), 251 B.C.perhaps Alexandria, EgyptApollonios (dioiketes) (see Pros. Ptol. I 16 + add.)Zenon (son of Agreophon) (see Pros.Ptol. I 80 + add.)Dioskourides (see Pros.Ptol. I 76)
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishGreekPtolemais he epi tou distomou (Ptolemais Hormou)Letter writing, Greek--Egypt.Game fowl--Feeding and feeds--Egypt.Game fowl--Transportation--Egypt.DocumentaryPapyrus
(Recto);;Apollonios to Zenon greeting. we have need of 400 fowls for fattening and of 100 hens. Kindly then buy them for us and send them to Ptolemais on the fork of the canal to our agent Dioskourides. Farewell. Year 35, Panemos 28, Epeiph 30.;;(Verso);;To Zenon.;(Docket, 2nd hand) Year 35, Mesore 7. Apollonios.
Edgar CC, PMich I, 48, 1931 -- BL VIII 220 (bibliography); BL IX 164 (date) White JL, Light from Ancient Letters, 25, 1986P.Mich.:1:48