P.Mich.inv. 763 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 763
- Processing Number
- 3118
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Wood
- Size
- 35.7 x 10.2 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-10
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- A wooden table pierced with two holes on one of the longer side. One of the holes is still filled by a fragment of a wooden peg, and these apertures may therefore have been used for some other purpose than the passage of leather thongs or wire for binding.
- Palaeographic Description
- Written in uncials varying from 1/2 cm. to 1 cm. in height. Each one of the syllables formed on side 1 has been underlined. Side 2 contains three lines only, which cover approximately the upper third of its surface, and are blurred toward the right.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IVth century A.D. (?)
- Origin
- unknown
- Provenance
- unknown
- Acquisition
- obtained by Mr. Kelsey in Egypt in March and April, 1920, from a native through Dr. David L. Askren
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- documentary
- Author
- unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- school exercise
- Content
- Side 1: Syllabary, first a col. of vowels, then combinations with consonants. In col. 7 iota functions both as consonant and as vowel.
- Side 2: Alphabet in regular and reverse order, then the letters are paired.
- Subject Headings
- Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.)--Writing|vProblems, exercises, etc.
- Education, Greek--Egypt.
- Persons
- -
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- -
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3118
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections CP 16 Boak AER 1921 189-91 Boak AER, CP 16, 189-91, 1921 Writing, Teachers and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt Cribiore R 1996 83 Plate VII Cribiore R, Writing, Teachers and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt, 83, 1996, Plate VII
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Pack (2), 2708; Zalateo G., Aegyptus 41 (1961), pp. 160-235 (no. 6); Debut, J., ZPE 63 (1986), 251-78 (nos. 35, 63);
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 300
- Year End
- 399
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 7861 x 3633
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 3118
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3118/763r.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 763; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3118/763r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2024.