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Papyrus 491
- Record Id:
- 040-002104873
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001e8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468738.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 491
- Title:
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Will of Peisias (P.Petr.2 I 13, P.Petr. I 12, P.Petr. III 9, TM 47308)
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of the will of Peisias, a Lycian military settler with land in the Arsinoite nome, who makes provisions for Pisicrates, his son from his first marriage, and for his wife Axiothea. He bequeaths to Pisicrates an apartment house in Alexandria with furniture and some Syrian slaves; his wife is to inherit a Syrian female slave and a house in Boubastos. The remaining furniture in Boubastos is to be shared between Axiothea and Pisicrates. Axiothea may keep what she has brought as a dowry and is still intact, while as regards what has not survived or is worn, Pisicrates should pay the value of various items of clothing and jewelry to her.
Traces of another column survive, presumably with a dating clause.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104873 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 491 : Will of Peisias (P.Petr.2 I 13, P.Petr. I 12, P.Petr. III 9, TM 47308) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1138]/040-002104873
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Two fragments of a sheet from a papyrus roll reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off at the bottom and damaged by holes especially in the left-hand portion; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; there is one column of 24 lines; few letters of a second column are visible at the bottom right. A sheet-join runs across the fibres in the right edge; another sheet was originally glued on the left, as indicated by the paler strip on the left edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468738.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0299
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 238-237 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 180 x 170 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 245 mm.
Script: Thin, neat and regular professional hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 486-603 by Henry Martyn Kennard (b. 1833, d. 1911) in May 1895. The papyri had been extracted from mummy cartonnage found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Petr. I 12
P.Petr. III 9
P.Petr.(2) I 13 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), p. 501.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), pp. 37-39, no. 12, with pl. xvi.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 22.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 18, no. 9.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. x, no. 491 descr.
R. Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner 1990), no. 54.
W. Clarysse, The Petrie Papyri. Second Edition (P. Petrie2). Volume I: the Wills (Collectanea Hellenistica 2) (Brussel: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie 1991), pp.153-162, no. 13.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 159.
R. S. Bagnall, P. Derow, The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation (Oxford- Malden, MA: Blackwell 2004), pp. 241-242, no. 148.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 173.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)