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Papyrus 106
- Record Id:
- 040-002104484
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00030e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143122585.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 106
- Title:
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Petition to the King (P.Lond. I 106, UPZ II 151, TM 2975)
- Scope & Content:
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A petition addressed to the king Ptolemy by Areus, complaining about an act of violence perpetrated by Cephalon in front of witnesses. Areus asks for the matter to be investigated.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104484 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 106 : Petition to the King (P.Lond. I 106, UPZ II 151, TM 2975) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0932]/040-002104484
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus sheet, with detached fragment at the bottom, lacking the right upper edge and broken off at the bottom; with surface damage in the preserved portion. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. Upper and left margins are preserved, no margin was left to the right and the lower margin is lost. A sheet-join runs across the fibres and along the lower half of the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in glass.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143122585.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0259
- End Date:
- -0259
- Date Range:
- After 9 August 259 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Larger fragment:185 x 69 mm; Smaller fragment: 22 x 51 mm; framed in a glass case measuring 335 x 255 mm.
Script: Rapid and proficient cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Diospolis Magna (Thebes East), 4th Upper Nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Diospolis Magna (Thebes East), 4th Upper Nome (?), Egypt. Purchased from the viscountess Strangford in March 1864 and transferred from the Department of Antiquities through Samuel Birch (b. 1813, d. 1885) on 2 January 1867.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. I 106
UPZ II 151 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1861-1875 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum 1877), p. 832.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 60-61, no. 106, with pl. 35.
E. M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912), pp. 152-153, facs. 20.
U. Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit. (Ältere Funde), II. Band: Papyri aus Oberägypten (Berlin· W. de Gruyter 1957), pp. 1-2, no. 151.
A. Di Bitonto, ‘Le petizioni al re: studio sul formulario’, Aegyptus 47 (1967), pp. 5-57 (p. 6 and passim).
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt: case studies in the social history of the Hellenistic world (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press 1986), p. 22.
M. A. Söllner, ‘Bemerkungen zur Datierung verschiedener Papyri’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 107 (1995), pp. 81-84 (p. 83).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)