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Papyrus 34
- Record Id:
- 040-002104452
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0002e8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468629.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 34
- Title:
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Report on the Allowances due to the Twins of the Serapeum (P.Lond. I 34, UPZ I 37, TM 3428)
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of official papers concerning the allowances due to the twin sisters Taous and Tages, and including: minute of Ptolemaeus, enclosing Dorion’s report, with the amount of oil due annually and the statement that nothing has been paid for the 20th year; official dockets; report of Areus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104452 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 34 : Report on the Allowances due to the Twins of the Serapeum (P.Lond. I 34, UPZ I 37, TM 3428) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0001]/040-002104452
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Long and narrow papyrus sheet, complete, with few holes on the left and at the bottom not affecting the writing; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are 23 lines, complete; all margins are extant, with the blank at the bottom measuring 140 mm. A sheet-join runs from top to bottom at 30 mm from the left edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468629.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0161
- End Date:
- -0161
- Date Range:
- 8 February 161 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 328 x 107 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 350 x 135 mm.
Script: Clear, thin upright hand, with some smaller letters and uneven in places, occasionally ligatured. The first word may be written in a different hand (P.Lond. I p. 18).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Memphis, Egypt.
Provenance: Memphis, Egypt. Purchased with Papyri 26-36 at Salt’s sale in 1835.
- Former External References:
- Forshall IX
P.Lond. I 34
UPZ I 37 - Publications:
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J. Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1839), no. ix.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 17-18, no. 34, with pl. viii.
E. M. Thompson, Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, etc. : second series. New Palaeographical Society Series II, Part I,II (London: Oxford University Press 1913-1932), pl. 23.
U. Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit I. Band: Papyri aus Unterägypten (Berlin· W. de Gruyter 1927), no. 37.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 150.
P. W. Pestman (ed.), Familiearchieven uit het land van Pharao (Zutphen: Terra 1989), pp. 46-69.
J. Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), pp. 98-105.
Legras, Les reclus grecs du Sarapeion de Memphis. Une enquête sur l'hellénisme égyptien (Studia Hellenistica 49) (Leuven: Peeters 2011).
D. J. Thompson, Memphis under the Ptolemies (2nd ed.) (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2012), pp. 199-246.
G. Jennes, ‘Life Portraits: People in Worship’, in K. Vandorpe (ed.), A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (Chichester, West Sussex-Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell 2019), pp. 473-481 (pp. 474-475).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)