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Papyrus 44
- Record Id:
- 040-002104462
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0002f2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468681.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 44
- Title:
-
Petition about an Assault (P.Lond. I 44, UPZ I 8, TM 3399)
- Scope & Content:
-
Petition addressed to the strategus Dionysius from Ptolemaeus, son of Glaucias, 'secluded' (katochos) in the Serapeum in Memphis, complaining that some men had tried to enter the sanctuary and attack him, as he was a Greek. They robbed and beated Diphilus, another recluse. Ptolemaeus asks that the men should be summoned; the list of the accused follows.
Further writing is found in the margins.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104462 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 44 : Petition about an Assault (P.Lond. I 44, UPZ I 8, TM 3399) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0011]/040-002104462
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. There is one column of 35 lines, and further writing in the side margins: in the left margin, the text is upside down, in the right margin it runs along the right edge perpendicularly to the main column. Margins are extant, the right and lower being minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468681.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0161
- End Date:
- -0161
- Date Range:
- After 8 November 161 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 337 x 207 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 360 x 230 mm.
Script: Well-formed and clear upright hand, with a tendency to become more cursive and with occasional ligatures; lines tend to incline upwards and are compressed at the bottom.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Memphis, Egypt.
Provenance: Memphis, Egypt. Origin: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 45-49 from M. Anastasi in 1839.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. I 44
UPZ I 8 - Publications:
-
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 33-35, no. 44, with facs. 19.
F. G. Kenyon, The palaeography of Greek papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1899), plate 2 (after p. 38).
U. Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit I. Band: Papyri aus Unterägypten (Berlin· W. de Gruyter 1927), no. 8.
C. H. Roberts, Greek literary hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), p. 6, pl. 6b.
A. Di Bitonto, ‘Le petizioni ai funzionari nel periodo tolemaico: studio sul formulario’, Aegyptus 48 (1968), pp. 53-107 (p. 57).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 49.
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), p. 86.
R. Ziegler, ‘Bemerkungen zu verschiedenen Urkunden’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 106 (1995), pp. 189-194 (p. 194).
P. Schubert, Vivre en Égypte greco-romaine: une selection de papyrus (Vevey: Editions de l'Aire 2000), pp. 164-166, no. 56.
R. Burnet, L' Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus: vie quotidienne (Paris: Pygmalion 2003), pp. 179-180, no. 112.
R. S. Bagnall, P. Derow, The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation (Oxford- Malden, MA: Blackwell 2004), pp. 232-233, no. 138.
M. M. Austin, The Hellenistic world from Alexander to the Roman conquest: a selection of ancient sources in translation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006), no. 257.
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), p. 44.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter& Co. 2008), p. 995, no. 59.
H. Harrauer, Handbuch der griechischen Paläographie. Textband (Stuttgart: Hiersemann 2010), pp. 221-222, no. 43.
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)