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Papyrus 41
- Record Id:
- 040-002104459
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0002ef
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468670.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 41
- Title:
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Documents concerning the Twin Sisters in the Serapeum at Memphis (P.Lond. I 41 ro., UPZ I 57, TM 3448; P.Lond. I 41 vo., UPZ I 58, TM 3449)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Lond. I 41 ro., UPZ I 57, TM 3448): Letter concerning the claim of the twins to allowance of bread on account of the libations offered to Asclepius, which they ask to be reinstated.
Verso: Copy of a petition from the twins Taous and Taues to Sarapion, concerning the allowance of bread and referring to a petition to the king; notes with accounts can be found on the verso and recto. Dated to October 163- October 162 BC.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104459 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 41 : Documents concerning the Twin Sisters in the Serapeum at Memphis (P.Lond. I 41 ro., UPZ I 57, TM 3448; P.Lond. I 41 vo., UPZ I 58,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0008]/040-002104459
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus sheet, complete, with worm-holes and surface damage in places; written on both sides. The text on the front runs along the fibres; there is one column of 25 lines, the last three of which are obliterated; in the lower left corner there are 3 additional lines. Margins are extant, the upper and right being minimal. A sheet-join runs from top to bottom along the left edge. The back contains 5 lines written along the fibres at the top; after some blank space there are one column of 3 lines on the left and 1 line in the middle; additional lines are written across the fibres, 2 of which run into the lines at the top. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468670.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0164
- End Date:
- -0161
- Date Range:
- 164-161 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 318 x 205 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 340 x 225 mm.
Script: Recto: Clumsy and somewhat irregular hand; smaller hand at the bottom left. Verso: Thin, upright cursive hand; thicker hand at the bottom and for the text across the fibres.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Memphis, Egypt.
Provenance: Memphis, Egypt. Purchased with Papyri 42-43 at Athanasi’s sale in March 1837.
- Former External References:
- Forshall XII
P.Lond. I 41 ro.
P.Lond. I 41 vo.
UPZ I 57
UPZ I 58 - Publications:
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J. Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1839), no. xii.
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.
W. Clarysse, K. Vandorpe, ‘A Demotic Lease of Temple Land Reused in the "Katochoi" Archive (Louvre N 2328a)’, Ancient Society 36 (2006), pp. 1-11 (p. 3).
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).
Recto
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 27-28, no. 41 ro., with pl. xv.
W. Otto, Priester und Tempel im hellenistischen Ägypten I (Leipzig: Teubner 1905), p. 110.
U. Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit I. Band: Papyri aus Unterägypten (Berlin· W. de Gruyter 1927), no. 57.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 150.
Verso
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 28-29, no. 41 vo., with pl. xvi.
U. Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit I. Band: Papyri aus Unterägypten (Berlin· W. de Gruyter 1927), no. 58.
A. Di Bitonto, ‘Le petizioni ai funzionari nel periodo tolemaico: studio sul formulario’, Aegyptus 48 (1968), pp. 53-107 (p. 61).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)