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Or 6809
- Record Id:
- 032-003464600
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464600
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100087841809.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 6809
- Title:
- Letter listing products and services (TM 47750)
- Scope & Content:
- The text is possibly a letter, addressing the receiver in the second person singular and also mentioning “your wife”, “your sons”, although no letter formulae remain in the extant text. Writer gives a long list of products, mostly with amounts, and services he provided, in many cases “without a fee”. The text contains no date.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Coptic Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003464600", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 6809: Letter listing products and services (TM 47750)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003464600
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003464600
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet with a Coptic text on both sides. The text starts on verso against the fibres and continues on recto along the fibres. There are 19 lines on verso and 4 lines on recto. The beginning of the text is missing.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Coptic
- Scripts:
- Coptic
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions:
Script: A not very regular but practised documentary hand, supralinear strokes and trema are used, with some ligatures.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Elephantine / Syene, Egypt.
Provenance: Syene or Elephantine? Purchased by Robert de Rustafjaell in Egypt in February 1907; purchased by the British Museum from Rustafjaell on 12 November 1907.
- Publications:
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S. Clackson, 'Four Coptic Papyri from the Patermouthis Archive in the British Library', Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 32 (1995), pp. 97-116 (mentioned on p. 98).
Metadata provided by the ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Patermouthis (Patermoute), archive owner, 6th century
- Places:
- Elephantine Island, Aswan, Aswān, Egypt, Africa
Syene, Egypt - Related Material:
- The document might belong to the Patermouthis archive (TM Arch id: 37).