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Papyrus 401
- Record Id:
- 040-002104771
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00000f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127396.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 401
- Title:
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Petition (P.Dryton 34, P.Lond. II 401, Chrest.Mitt. 18, TM 284)
- Scope & Content:
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A petition to Phommous, epistrategus (one of the highest officials) of the Thebaid, from Apollonia and Aphrodisia, daughters of Dryton, acting also on behalf of their sisters. They complain that a certain Ariston took advantage of their not being able to travel and administer their vineyard on the other side of the Nile, which was part of their inheritance: Ariston occupied the plot violently and planted part of it. The sisters ask that Ariston be summoned and the matter be investigated.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104771 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 401 : Petition (P.Dryton 34, P.Lond. II 401, Chrest.Mitt. 18, TM 284) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0740]/040-002104771
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Complete papyrus sheet, written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. The sheet is damaged along the vertical folds and the horizontal fold. All margins are extant: the upper margin measures 40 mm, the lower 45 mm, the left 35 mm and the right a maximum of 20 mm, being minimal in places. The text consists of one column with 31 lines. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143127396.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0115
- End Date:
- -0110
- Date Range:
- 115-110 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 290 x 165 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 385 x 230 mm.
Script: Neat upright hand, with a tendency to be come more cursive towards the end of the text. Two corrections occur.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 401-447 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 15 May 1893.
- Former External References:
- C.Ptol.Sklav. 58
Chrest.Mitt. 18
P.Dryton 34
P.Lond. II 401 - 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. 443.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 12-14, no. 401.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 13-14, no. 18.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 244.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 80.
L. Mooren, ‘The Governors General of the Thebaid in the Second Century B.C. (I)’, Ancient Society 4 (1973), pp. 115-132 (pp. 130-131).
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), p. 102.
R. Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner 1990), no. 58.
J. Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), pp. 111-112, no. 87.
K. Vandorpe, The bilingual family archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia and their daughter Senmouthis (P. Dryton) (Brussel: Het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, 2002), pp. 259-261, no. 34.
S. L. Lippert, Einführung in die altägyptische Rechtsgeschichte (Berlin: LIT 20122), pp. 90, 113, 209.
H. Harrauer, Handbuch der griechischen Paläographie. Textband (Stuttgart: Hiersemann 2010), pp. 230-232, no. 49.
J. G. Keenan, J. G. Manning, U. Yiftach-Firanko (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 107-109, no. 3.1.3.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)