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Papyrus 35
- Record Id:
- 040-002104453
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0002e9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468633.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 35
- Title:
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Petition for the Twin Sisters in the Serapeum at Memphis (P.Lond. I 35, UPZ I 53, TM 3444)
- Scope & Content:
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Petition to the hypodioiketes Sarapion from Ptolemaeus, recluse in the Serapeum of Memphis for eleven years, requesting the payment of the allowance of bread, which had fallen into arrears, to the twin sisters Taous and Tages. Papyrus 24 verso is a copy of the same petition.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104453 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 35 : Petition for the Twin Sisters in the Serapeum at Memphis (P.Lond. I 35, UPZ I 53, TM 3444) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0003]/040-002104453
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus sheet of light colour, damaged by holes in places, especially along the left edge; written on both sides; the front bears 31 lines written along the fibres; the back has one word written along the fibres in the upper left corner. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame, with an opening on the back showing the writing.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468633.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0161
- End Date:
- -0161
- Date Range:
- After 10 January 161 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 325 x 174 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 345 x 200 mm.
Script: Thin, upright hand, uneven and more cursive in places; with serifs; interlinear additions and erasures occur. Same hand as Papyrus 24 verso (=P.Lond. I 24 verso).
- 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 XIII
P.Lond. I 35
UPZ I 53 - Publications:
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J. Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1839), no. xiii.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 24-25, no. 35, with pl. xiii.
U. Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit I. Band: Papyri aus Unterägypten (Berlin· W. de Gruyter 1927), no. 53.
A. Di Bitonto, ‘Le petizioni ai funzionari nel periodo tolemaico: studio sul formulario’, Aegyptus 48 (1968), pp. 53-107 (pp. 61, 74 and passim).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 150.
G. Menci, ‘Scritture greche librarie con apici ornamentali (III a.C.-II d.C.)’, Scrittura e civiltà 3 (1979), plate 2.
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.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 210).
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)