Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · papyrus
Private Letter
Description
Letter written by Saturnilus, a soldier stationed at Pselkis (Nubia), to his mother Aphrodous, who lived at Karanis. He announces the birth of a son and says that he hopes, and will eventually pay, to be sent with letters for the prefect in Alexandria, so that he could visit her before he has to leave Pselkis for a tour of duty in a frontier garrison, eighteen months long
Connections
Found at
Pselkis (Nubien)
Cross-references (4)
- TM-Text 21342 primary
- APIS-Text michigan.apis.1636 tier-1
- DDbDP-Text p.mich;3;203 tier-1
- HGV-Text 21342 tier-1
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.