Abstract
The prescnl letler was found during the cxcavalions of Ihe University oi Michigan at Karanis for the season of 1925—1926, in the structure 25-248A. Two other papyri found in the same area were of Roman date (P. Mich. VI416 and VIII 521; Information by P. van Minnen). The papyrus preserves the top of a Ptolemaic letter or hypomnema, consisting almost entirely of polite phrases. The main interest of the text is that it was sent by a female somphis, clearly the Greek transcription of an Egyptian word. In our view somphis renders Egyptian Inf temple dancer. The formulas used are typical of the Egyptian (or Oriental) epistolary style and may show that the writer of the text belonged to the native priestly milieu. We thank Ludwig Koenen for his kind permission to publish this text here.
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