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91. Papyrus 573 (1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 573 (1)
Title:
Part of the register and account
Scope & Content:
Portions of a register of cavalry horses, recording their owners and description. With reference to the sixth year of Ptolemy III Euergetes (242-241 BC). The back bears portions of an account.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
242-241 BC
Extent:

Two fragments from mummy cartonnage, written on both sides; traces of plaster are still visible. Housed in a glass frame.

92. Papyrus 573 (2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 573 (2)
Title:
Part 2 of the register and account
Scope & Content:
Portions of a register of cavalry horses, recording their owners and description. The other side bears portions of an account.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
242-241 BC
Extent:

Portion of a papyrus roll extracted from mummy cartonnage, written on both sides; traces of the painted decoration are still visible. Housed in a glass frame.

93. Papyrus 573 (3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 573 (3)
Title:
Part 3 of the register and account
Scope & Content:
Portions of a register of cavalry horses, recording their owners and description. With reference to the seventh year of Ptolemy III Euergetes (241-240 BC). The other side bears portions of an account.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
241-240 BC
Extent:

Two fragments and two detached scraps from a papyrus roll extracted from mummy cartonnage, written on both sides; traces of plaster are still visible. Housed in a glass frame.

94. Papyrus 579

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 579
Title:
Register of Taxes (P.Petr. III 109(a-e), P.Petr. II 39(f), P.Lond. III 579 descr., TM 7568)
Scope & Content:
A roll reused as mummy cartonnage with a register of taxes paid by military settlers (cleruchs) and covering three years; among the taxes listed are those for the maintenance of embankments, the salt-tax, the tax for the maintenance of guards, the pasture fee. Papyrus 579(1) = P.Petr. III 109a-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
After 1 November 248 BC
Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, reused for mummy cartonnage, and housed in two glass frames named Papyrus 579(1) and Papyrus 579(2). Writing runs along the fibres on the front; portions of 12 columns survive. Scattered on the back are few lines written across the fibres.

Papyrus 579(1) (a-b): Portions of 6 columns on the front, with part of the upper margin surviving;

Papyrus 579(2): Fragments bearing the feet of 11 columns on the front.

Upper fragment (e): Feet of 5 columns, with lower margin and blank to the left.

Lower fragment (c): Feet of 5 columns, with lower margin and modern annotation.

Small fragment (d): 5 lines from one column.

95. Papyrus 595

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 595
Title:
Scope & Content:
FRAGMENT of a letter, perhaps official. 3rd cent. B.C. 3 ½ in. X 3 ½ in. Imperfect; in a medium-sized semi-cursive hand. [Not printed in P.P.]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
1 item

96. Papyrus 598

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 598
Title:
Scope & Content:
FRAGMENTS of a letter (?) but not enough ie; left to indicate the subject. 3rd cent. B.C. Two fragments, 3 ¼ in. X 3 ¼ in. and 5 ¼ in. X 5 in. Written in a rough cursive hand. [Not printed in P.P.; formerly attached to Pap. 589 (cf. Mahaffy on P.P. II. 49 (a), though having nothing to do with it.]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
1 item

97. Papyrus 601

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 601
Title:
Scope & Content:
FRAGMENT of a Ptolemaic document, too much mutilated for its subject to be discovered. 3rd cent. B.C. 7 ½ in. X 5 in. On the verso is some writing dated the 26th Pharmouthi in the 7th year [either of Euergetes, = B.C. 241-240, or Philopator, = B.C. 216- 215]. [Not printed in P.P.]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
1 item

98. Papyrus 603

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 603
Title:
Scope & Content:
FRAGMENT of a petition asking for justice on some offenders: but the names of the parties and much of the substance of the petition are lost. 3rd cent. B.C. 6 ¼ in. X 3 ¾ in. Written in a medium-sized cursive hand, much defaced by plaster. [Not printed in P.P.]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
1 item

99. Papyrus 604

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 604
Title:
Scope & Content:
Roll of papyrus, formed by the conjunction of two distinct documents, the texts of which run in opposite directions:- A. Return compiled by Besas, also named Soter, of Crocodilopolis and the associated villages, of arable land irrigated by the inundation in the 7th year of Tiberius Claudius Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 1st century
Extent:
1 item

100. Papyrus 642

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 642
Title:
Scope & Content:
FRAGMENTS from a mummy-case, in a very neat hand of literary type. 2nd cent. B.C. ("). Attached to one of them is a document in a different hand, bearing a mutilated date apparently in the reign of [Ptolemy Alexander] and Cleopatra [= B.C. 89-88; possibly of Philometor, = before B.C. 146].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd century BC-1st century BC
Extent:
1 item