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Papyrus 354
- Record Id:
- 040-002104727
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00001c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126974.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 354
- Title:
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Petition to the Prefect (P.Lond. II 354, TM 11735)
- Scope & Content:
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A petition addressed to the prefect of Egypt Gaius Turranius by Satabous and his son, who complain about some wrong done by two brothers, both named Opis. The petitioners had been thrown in prison after trials, and now ask the prefect to instruct the strategus so that they may be released.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104727 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 354 : Petition to the Prefect (P.Lond. II 354, TM 11735) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0246]/040-002104727
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus sheet, darkened in places; almost complete, but lacking part of the left edge and damaged to the right; the surface is abraded in places, especially on the sides. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. The text occupies slightly more than half of the sheet, and consists of 28 lines, some of which are damaged at the beginning and end. Margins are extant, with no margin having been left to the right; the blank space at the bottom measures 145 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126974.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0007
- End Date:
- -0004
- Date Range:
- 7-4 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 338 x 225 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 397 x 275 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, calligraphic and regular bookhand; overall bilinear, with small serifs at the ends of uprights.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 272-400 from Theodor Graf (b. 1840, d. 1903) on 11 April 1893.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 354
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 438.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 163-165, no. 354, with pl. 6.
F. G. Kenyon, The palaeography of Greek papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1899), pl. XIV.
E. M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912), p. 121, facs. 7.
E. M. Thompson, Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, etc. : second series. New Palaeographical Society Series II, Part I (London: Oxford University Press 1913-1932), Plate 182.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 256-257.
M. Norsa, La scrittura letteraria greca dal secolo IV A.C. all'VIII (Firenze: Ariani 1939), pl. 7.
C. H. Roberts, Greek literary hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), pl. 9a.
G. Menci, ‘Scritture greche librarie con apici ornamentali (III a.C.-II d.C.)’, Scrittura e civiltà 3 (1979) pp. 23-54 (plate 4).
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 56, with pl. 31.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 130.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 190).
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), pp. 61, 64.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter& Co. 2008), pp. 132-133, no. 88.
L. Del Corso, ‘La scrittura greca di età ellenistica nei papiri greco-egizi. Considerazioni preliminari’, Analecta Papyrologica 18-20 (2006-2008), pp. 207-267 (pp. 244, 265).
G. Cavallo, ‘Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri’, in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 101-148 (p. 114).
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 191, 340.
P. Arzt-Grabner, R. E. Kritzer, 2 Korinther (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2013), p. 238 and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)