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Papyrus 42
- Record Id:
- 040-002104460
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0002f0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468674.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 42
- Title:
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Private Letter (UPZ I 59, P.Lond. I 42, Chrest.Wilck. 97, TM 3450)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of Isias to her husband Hephaestion, showing disappointment at the news of his not returning home and his remaining secluded in the Sarapieion in Memphis. After the hardships she has faced with their child, she was hoping to find some rest with his return. She begs him to come back, for the sake of everyone, including his mother, who is distressed. With address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104460 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 42 : Private Letter (UPZ I 59, P.Lond. I 42, Chrest.Wilck. 97, TM 3450) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0009]/040-002104460
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus sheet, with a darker patch in the lower half, complete, displaying holes throughout and damaged in the upper right corner; written on both sides along the fibres, the back bearing one word. On the front there is one column of 32 lines, complete; all margins are extant, with the lower and right being minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case with the exception of a small window on the back, which shows the writing.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468674.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0179
- End Date:
- -0168
- Date Range:
- 1 September 179 BC or 29 August 168 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 323 x 162 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 340 x 180 mm.
Script: Good, upright hand, with few ligatures; exhibiting some serifs and elongated strokes; compressed and smaller in places; with interlinear additions. Perhaps Dionysius (brother of Hephaestion)’ hand (Sarri 2017).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Memphis, Egypt. Purchased with Papyri 41, 43 at Athanasi’s sale in March 1837.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 97
Forshall 18
P.Lond. I 42
Sel.Pap. I 97
UPZ I 59 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840 (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1843), p. 56.
J. Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1839), no. XVIII.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 29-31, no. 42, with pl. xvii.
S. Witkowski, Epistulae privatae Graecae quae in papyris aetatis Lagidarum servantur (Lipsiae: Teubner 1911), no. 35.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 130-132, no. 97.
W. Schubart, Ein Jahrtausend am Nil. Briefe aus dem Altertum (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchandlung 1912), p. 18, and Ein Jahrtausend am Nil; Briefe aus dem Altertum (Berlin: Weidmann 1923), p. 22.
U. Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit I. Band: Papyri aus Unterägypten (Berlin· W. de Gruyter 1927), no. 59.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 282-285, no. 97.
J. Modrzejewski, ‘Le droit de famille dans les lettres privées grecques d'Égypte’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 9–10 (1955–6), pp. 339-364 (pp. 346–347).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 100.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 150.
H. Metzger, Nachrichten aus dem Wüstensand: eine Sammlung von Papyruszeugnissen (Zürich: Artemis 1974), no. 68.
B. G. Mandilaras, Papyroi kai papyrologia (Athens: 1980), p. 176, n. 43; (1994), p. 373, no. 45.
J. L. White, Light from Ancient Letters (Philadelphia: Fortress Press 1986), no. 34.
D. J. Thompson, Memphis under the Ptolemies (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 1988), p. 231.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 500.
R. Merkelbach, ‘Zur ἐνκατοχή im Sarapeum zu Memphis’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 103 (1994), pp. 293-296 = Philologica. Ausgewählte Kleine Schriften (Stuttgart–Leipzig: Teubner 1997) pp. 292-296.
R. S. Bagnall, P. Derow, The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation (Oxford- Malden, MA: Blackwell 2004), pp. 281-282 , no. 173.
R. S. Bagnall, R. Cribiore, Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2006), pp. 111-112.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), pp. 104-105, 349-350.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 259.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)