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Papyrus 492
- Record Id:
- 040-002104874
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001e9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468744.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 492
- Title:
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Wills (P.Petr.2 I 16, SB XIV 11306, P.Petr. I 17(1-2), P.Petr. III 10-11, 14-17, P.Lond. III 492a descr., TM 47309; P.Petr.2 I 9, P.Petr. I 17(3), P.Petr. III 8(1), P.Lond. III 492b descr., TM 47306)
- Scope & Content:
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Register listing wills, reused as mummy cartonnage.
Upper fragments and lower left fragment (A) (P.Petr.2 I 16, SB XIV 11306, P.Petr. I 17(1-2), P.Petr. III 10-11, 14-17, P.Lond. III 492a descr., TM 47309): Portions of a roll listing wills for the year 236-235 BC. Additional fragments preserving parts of the same columns and of a third consecutive column are BL Papyrus 596(A-B), and some papyrus fragments in Trinity College. BL Papyrus 497 (P.Petr.2 I 17) follows P.Petr.2 I 16, with two columns probably missing between then.
Upper fragment, lines 1-11: Conclusion of a will, listing the witnesses; the name of the testator is lost.
Lines 12-end: Will of Antipater of Cyrene, military settler, aged 75, who makes provisions for his wife Dionysia.
Lower left fragment: Will of Calas, Macedonian, aged 70, who makes provision for his wife.
The other fragments contain further portions of these wills, and the wills of Ptolemaeus, son of Heraclides, who bequeaths his possessions to his wife (this will precedes Calas' will), of Ammonius, son of Andromachus, who makes provisions for his son, and the beginning of another will.
Lower right fragment (B) (P.Petr.2 I 9, P.Petr. I 17(3), P.Petr. III 8(1), P.Lond. III 492b descr., TM 47306): Portions of two wills of 238-237 BC, the names of the testators being lost. Of the first will, only part of the conclusion survives, with the list of witnesses. The second testator bequeaths all his possessions to his son.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104874 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 492 : Wills (P.Petr.2 I 16, SB XIV 11306, P.Petr. I 17(1-2), P.Petr. III 10-11, 14-17, P.Lond. III 492a descr., TM 47309; P.Petr.2 I 9,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1140]/040-002104874
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
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Fragments of papyrus sheets reused as mummy cartonnage from the same register; written on one side along the fibres and mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
Upper fragments and lower left fragment (A): Fragments from two consecutive sheets of the same roll; the upper fragments join at the bottom right and preserve 25 lines of one column, with line 12 being lost. The lower fragment contains the bottom left corner of the second column, with the beginnings of 19 lines.
There are 9 additional fragments preserving further portions of these two columns and of a third consecutive column: these are BL Papyrus 596(a-b), and the papyri in Trinity College, Dublin, inventoried as FF4 (5 fragments), FF6, F30. Trinity College FF6 joins BL Papyrus 492A at the top right, and preserves the middle portions of the first 10 lines. BL Papyrus 596b joins with BL Papyrus 492A at the bottom, and contains 20 lines from the lower left part of column 1; one of the fragments inventoried as Trinity College FF4 and F30 joins with BL Papyrus 492A, lower fragment.
Lower right fragment (B): Broken off on all sides, with portions of 19 lines; no margin survives. A sheet-join runs across the fibres at c. 5 mm. from the right edge.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0238
- End Date:
- -0235
- Date Range:
- 238-235 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A(1): 175 x 225 mm; A(2): 145 x 105 mm; B: 160 x 75 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 365 x 280 mm.
Script: A: Regular and rather small professional cursive hand; same hand as P.Petr.2 I 16, 18-21. B: Thin, broad, upright professional hand; same hand as P.Petr2 I 7-8.
- Custodial History:
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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.Lond. III 492a descr.
P.Lond. III 492b descr.
P.Petr. I 17(1-2)
P.Petr. I 17(3)
P.Petr. III 10-11, 14-17
P.Petr. III 8(1)
P.Petr.(2) I 16
P.Petr.(2) I 9
SB XIV 11306 - 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.
A
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), pp. 41-42, 49-50, no. 17(1-2).
U. Wilcken, ‘P.Petr. III’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 3 (1906), pp. 511-521 (p. 513).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), pp. 19-22, nos. 10-11, pp. 27-30, nos. 14-17(a-b).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 379.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 144.
F. Uebel, Die Kleruchen Ägyptens unter den ersten sechs Ptolemäem (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1968), nos. 888, 891, 894-895, 897, 899-901, 904, 915-921, 923-925.
W. Clarysse, ‘Three Soldiers' Wills in the Petrie Collection: A Reedition’, Ancient Society 2 (1971), pp. 7-20.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 115.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XIV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1983), pp. 28-30, no. 11306.
R. Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner 1990), no. 30.
W. Clarysse, The Petrie Papyri. Second Edition (P. Petrie2). Volume I: the Wills (Collectanea Hellenistica 2) (Brussel: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie 1991), pp. 171-197, no. 16, with pll. 17-22 (with further bibliography).
B
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), pp. 49-50, no. 17(3).
S. Witkowski, Prodromus grammaticae papyrorum Graecarum aetatis Lagidarum (Krakau: Universitäts-Buchdruckerei 1897), pp. 49-50.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 16, no. 8(1).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. x, no. 492b descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 378-379.
Prosopographia Ptolemaica IV. L'Agriculture et l'élevage (Louvain: Lovanii Bibliotheca Universitatis 1959), p. 113, no. 9370; p. 133, no. 9632
F. Uebel, Die Kleruchen Ägyptens unter den ersten sechs Ptolemäem (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1968), nos. 866-868.
R. Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner 1990), no. 32.
W. Clarysse, The Petrie Papyri. Second Edition (P. Petrie2). Volume I: the Wills (Collectanea Hellenistica 2) (Brussel: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie 1991), pp. 143-146, no. 9, with pl. 14b.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)