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Papyrus 43
- Record Id:
- 040-002104461
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0002f1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127881.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 43
- Title:
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Private Letter (UPZ I 148, P.Lond. I 43, Chrest.Wilck. 136, TM 3540)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of a woman to her son or husband, expressing her joy in learning that the recipient is studying Egyptian writing (Demotic), so that he may teach the slave boys in the establishment of a doctor.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104461 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 43 : Private Letter (UPZ I 148, P.Lond. I 43, Chrest.Wilck. 136, TM 3540) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0010]/040-002104461
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Light-brown papyrus sheet, darker in places, complete, with some surface damage and somewhat torn at the edges; written on both sides, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. On the front there is a column of 9 lines, complete, which occupy the upper half of the sheet; margins are extant, with the blank at the bottom measuring 95 mm. On the back, there are traces of one column, effaced. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in glass, with the exception of a small window on the back to show the writing.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143127881.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0199
- End Date:
- -0100
- Date Range:
- 2nd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 225 x 105 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 245 x 130 mm.
Script: Clear, upright hand of medium size, occasionally compressed at the ends of the lines, somewhat uneven and exhibiting some serifs.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased with Papyri 41-42 at Athanasi’s sale in March 1837.
- Former External References:
- C.Pap.Hengstl 99
C.Ptol.Sklav. II 165
Chrest.Wilck. 136
Forshall XIX
P.Lond. I 43
UPZ I 148 - 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. XIX.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), p. 48, no. 43, with pl. 28.
S. Witkowski, Epistulae privatae Graecae quae in papyris aetatis Lagidarum servantur (Lipsiae: Teubner 1911), no. 59.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 162, no. 136.
W. Schubart, Ein Jahrtausend am Nil. Briefe aus dem Altertum (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchandlung 1912), p. 29, and Ein Jahrtausend am Nil; Briefe aus dem Altertum (Berlin: Weidmann 1923), p. 35.
J. G. Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1933), p. 66.
U. Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde)I. Band: Papyri aus Unterägypten (Berlin· W. de Gruyter 1927), no. 148.
R. Rémondon, ‘Problèmes du bilinguisme dans I'Égypte lagide’, Chronique d’Égypte 39 (1964), pp. 126–146.
J. Hengstl, Griechische Papyri aus Ägypten als Zeugnisse des öffentlichen und privaten Lebens (München: Heimeran Verlag 1978), no. 99.
H. Metzger, Nachrichten aus dem Wüstensand: eine Sammlung von Papyruszeugnissen (Zürich: Artemis 1974), no. 40.
R. Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte II (Stuttgart: Steiner 1990), no. 165.
E. Bandi, D. Foraboschi, ‘Giovanissimi e giovani scrivani nell'Egitto greco-romano’, in Q. Antonelli, E. Becchi (eds.), Scritture bambine. Testi infantili tra passato e presente (Quadrante Laterza 80) (Bari: Laterza 1995), pp. 43-60.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 364.
R. S. Bagnall, P. Derow, The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation (Oxford- Malden, MA: Blackwell 2004), p. 233, no. 139.
R. S. Bagnall, R. Cribiore, Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2008), A2.9, no. 15.
W. V. Harris, Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2016), pp. 163-164.
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)