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Nikias, Spemminis and colleagues

TM Arch id: 227

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Greek

official correspondence

Found in: U13 - Lykopolites

BC02

Protagonist: Nikias, Spemminis, Demetrios (Go to TM People)

Description: Archive of eleven fragmentary Greek official letters (corresponding to 6 TM numbers) from mummy cartonnage discovered by Schiaparelli in 1907 in the Rifeh-Assiut area. Four letters are addressed to Nikias c. 190, four to Spemminis c. 188 and one to Demetrios in 187 BC; the addressees of the remaining documents are lost. The letters refer to military operations in the Thebaid during the last phase of the Great Theban revolt, when the larger part of the Nile valley was again under the control of the king (191-186 BC).

Publication: P. Mil. 1.2 21-26

Studies: Daris, Su un nuovo archivio licopolitano, Stud. Pap. 2 (1963), p. 77-84; E. Lanciers, ‘The Emergence of the Ptolemaic Honorific Court Titles’, AncSoc 48 (2018), p. 49-82, esp. p. 55-56.

Lists: Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 249 no. 9

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6 texts (of which 6 certain)

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TM number	Publication	Status	Material	Language	Date

TM 5969	P. Mil. 1.2 25	certain	papyrus	Greek	BC 199 - 160 (cf. the range of the archive)
TM 5966	P. Mil. 1.2 26	certain	papyrus	Greek	BC 199 - 160 (cf. the range of the archive)
TM 6221	P. Mil. 1.2 21	certain	papyrus	Greek	a: BC 187 Aug 5 - Sep 3? ((P05); for date see Lanciers in AncSoc 48 (2018), 55-56) b: BC 190 Sep 21 ((P05); for date see Lanciers in AncSoc 48 (2018), 55-56) a: BC 163 Jul 30 - Aug 28? ((P06))
TM 6226	P. Mil. 1.2 22	certain	papyrus	Greek	BC 188 about
TM 5236	P. Mil. 1.2 23	certain	papyrus	Greek	BC 188 about