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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Papyrus 1-3136 Place Krokodilopolis/Ptolemais Euergetis/Arsinoe(Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt

41. Papyrus 569

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 569
Title:
Petition about a Theft (P.Petr. II 32(1), P.Petr. III 36d, P.Lond. III 569 descr., TM 7436)
Scope & Content:
Petition to Dorotheus, upper-level financial official (epimeletes), from the tanner Petosiris, who accuses a certain Dionysius to have entered his house and carried off his clothes, pillows, wool, cups, tools and more, for a value of 2600 drachmas. Petosiris asks that Dionysius be summoned and r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
22 September 197 BC
Extent:

Two halves of a papyrus sheet reused for mummy cartonnage, with no loss in between, with holes and surface damage throughout; written on both sides. On the front there is one column of 32 lines along the fibres; the text continues on the back, with 8 lines written across the fibres and, in the other fragment, 3 lines written across the fibres in reverse direction. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

42. Papyrus 587

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 587
Title:
Loan of Money (P.Petr. II 47, P.Petr. III 55b, Chrest.Mitt. 135, P.Lond. III 587 descr., TM 2903)
Scope & Content:
Copy of a contract for a loan of 330 drachmas, the lender being the cleruch (military settler) Hestiaeus and the borrower Donomazis, whereby the parties agree not to dispute over the loan. With dating clause at the beginning and list of the six witnesses, all cleruchs, at the end, followed by th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
210-209 BC
Extent:

Papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off at the top and right, with plaster residue and some surface damage in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The beginnings of 38 lines survive, with traces of another line at the top; the last 11 lines are indented; blank space separates lines 33 and 34. Lower and left margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

43. Papyrus 596(A-B)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 596(A-B)
Title:
Register of Wills (P.Petr.2 I 16, SB XIV 11306, P.Petr. III 11, 16, P.Lond. III 596(a-b) descr., TM 47309)
Scope & Content:
Portions of a roll listing wills for the year 236-235 BC. Additional fragments preserving parts of the same columns and of a third consecutive column are BL Papyrus 492(A), and some papyrus fragments in Trinity College. BL Papyrus 497 (P.Petr.2 I 17) follows P.Petr.2 I 16, with two columns proba...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
236-235 BC
Extent:

Two fragments from two sheets of the same papyrus roll, reused as mummy cartonnage, written on one side along the fibres and mounted on cardboard in a glass frame. Further fragments of the same portions of the roll are BL Papyrus 492(A) and the papyri in Trinity College, Dublin, inventoried as FF4 (five fragments), FF6, F30. Altogether, they preserve portions of three consecutive columns.

Left fragment (A): The fragment joins one of the Trinity College fragment inventoried as FF4, and preserves the beginnings of 20 lines from the feet of a column (the third of the roll to be preserved); the lines lack one letter to the left. Part of the lower margin is preserved.

Right fragment (B): The fragment joins BL Papyrus 492A at the bottom, and contains 20 lines from the lower left part of a column (the first preserved). Part of the lower survives.

44. Papyrus 600(A-E)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 600(A-E)
Title:
Miscellaneous Ptolemaic Texts (P.Lond. III 600(a-e), TM 78471, 47307)
Scope & Content:
Upper left papyrus (A) (P.Lond. 600(a), TM 78471): Theogenes acknowledges that he has received a loan (?) from some persons whose names are damaged; drawn up in Krokodilopolis. Unpublished. Lower left papyrus (D) (P.Petr. I(2) 7, TM 47307): Fragment of a will; the testator, a Macedonian aged 75...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Five fragments of varying size extracted from mummy cartonnage, mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

Upper left papyrus (A): Upper right portion of a light-brown papyrus sheet, with surface damage in place; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears the ends of 15 lines, the last of which are very fragmentary; the back is blank.

Second papyrus at the top (B): Light-brown papyrus fragment, written on one side along the fibres. The front bears portions of 15 lines; the back is blank.

Upper right papyrus (C): Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete on the left and partly at the top; with plaster residue; written on one side across the fibres. The front bears the beginnings of 12 lines, with traces of another line at the bottom; the back is blank.

Lower left papyrus (D): Fragment of a medium-to-dark-brown papyrus sheet, complete on the right and broken off on the other sides. The back is blank. Another fragment is in Dublin, Trinity College, inventoried as Pap. FF 2 [7].

Lower right papyrus (E): Fragment of a light-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the top; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears the foot of a column, the back is blank.

45. Papyrus 608

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 608
Title:
Letter concerning a Petition (P.Grenf. I 13, P.Lond. III 608 descr., TM 249)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a letter from an official to Ptolemaeus, son of Pyrrhus, concerning a petition submitted by the royal farmers. With date at the end.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
13 March 152 BC or 10 March 141
Extent:

Fragment of a light-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the left and with minor surface damage in the preserved portion. Writing runs across the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are 6 lines lacking the beginnings; upper, right and lower margins are extant. Folding lines are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

46. Papyrus 703

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 703
Title:
Application for Verification of Status (P.Grenf. II 49, P.Lond. III 703 descr., TM 11333)
Scope & Content:
Didymus and his wife Isis, residents of a quarter of Arsinoe, state that their son Anubas has entered his fourteenth year and apply for verification of his social and fiscal status, providing a list of the past census returns. With subscription of Apollonius, former exegetes and gymnasiarch, thr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
20 December 141
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, darkened in places, broken off at the top and left, and lacking part of the lower margin; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are 17 lines, some of which lack the beginnings; the beginning of the text is not preserved. Part of the lower margin survives; no margin was left to the right; the other margins are lost. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

47. Papyrus 705

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 705
Title:
Deed of Surety on Oath (P.Grenf. II 62, P.Lond. III 705 descr., TM 11364)
Scope & Content:
Statement on oath of Demetrius, son of Satyrus, addressed to the centurion Crenoleius Quintilianus, whereby Demetrius undertakes to be surety of Pasis, son of Apollonius, whom he shall produce whenever requested. With date at the end. The name of Geta was erased in the imperial oath but not in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
5(?) April 211
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, darker by patches, almost complete but damaged along the sides and displaying some holes in the preserved portion; the back lacks a strip of fibres, which affects the text. Writing runs along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The front bears 21 lines, with blank space between lines 16 and 17, which is indented, and between lines 17 and 18. Part of line 6 was erased. Traces of another column are visible at the bottom right margin. Two sheet-joins run along the side edges. Upper and lower margins are preserved. The back bears one column of 12 lines, lacking some letters at the beginning. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

48. Papyrus 706

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 706
Title:
Summons (P.Grenf. II 66, P.Lond. III 706 descr., TM 31939)
Scope & Content:
Order addressed to the chief of police (archephodus) of Philadelphia to send up two collectors of grain taxes at the petition of a district official, the katasporeus. With series of crosses as a line filler at the end.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:

Slip of papyrus, complete but displaying few holes and surface damage; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. There are 4 lines, the last of which is occupied by the filler in a series of crosses. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

49. Papyrus 711

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 711
Title:
Mandate to Register a Deed of Gift (P.Nekr. 10, P.Grenf. II 71, Chrest.Mitt. 190, P.Lond. III 711 descr., TM 22628)
Scope & Content:
A mandate from two brothers from different mothers, Petosiris and Petechon, sons of Petechon, funerary workers (nekrotaphoi), to Aurelius Marianus, who is to sail to Alexandria to register a deed of gift executed for them by their father. The deed is then enclosed. The possessions, equally divid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
9 September 244
Extent:

Papyrus roll, light-brown by patches, damaged by holes throughout and defaced in places. Writing is on one side along the fibres; portions of two columns survive, with the second being better preserved. The intercolumn measures 10 mm; the left margin 30 mm and no margin was left to the right; the upper and lower margins do not survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

50. Papyrus 724

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 724
Title:
Fragment of a Contract (P.Grenf. II 85, P.Lond. III 724 descr., TM 41304)
Scope & Content:
Beginning of a contract, of which the dating clause and the opening of the deed survive. One of the parties was a woman named Aurelia Mannous, of Arsinoe.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
21 June 536
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom and right, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The beginnings of 5 lines from the top of a column remain; left and upper margins survive in the preserved portion. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.