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Papyrus 493
- Record Id:
- 040-002104875
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001ea
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468752.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 493
- Title:
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Wills (P.Petr.2 I 24, P.Petr. I 19, Chrest.Mitt. 301, P.Lond. III 493 descr., TM 47313)
- Scope & Content:
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Portion of a register of wills.
Column 1, lines 1-14: Conclusion of a will, with the list of witnesses. The name of the testator is lost.
Line 15-end: Will of Aphrodisius, who makes provisions for his wife Axiothea. The names of the witnesses follow.
Column 2: Traces of another will, all details being lost through mutilation.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104875 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 493 : Wills (P.Petr.2 I 24, P.Petr. I 19, Chrest.Mitt. 301, P.Lond. III 493 descr., TM 47313) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1147]/040-002104875
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a papyrus roll reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off at the sides, with residues of plaster and red paint, and surface damage in places; writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are portions of two columns: the first column has 38 lines, lacking the beginnings; the second is badly mutilated, and only few letters from the beginnings of few lines survive. Upper and lower margins are extant. Two sheet-joins run from top to bottom, one in the middle of column one, and the other in the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0226
- End Date:
- -0225
- Date Range:
- 226-225 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 265 x 220 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 340 x 270 mm.
Script: Careful and regular upright hand, with no ligature; with smaller letters in lines 1-14. Same hand as P.Petr.2 I 25-29.
- 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 493 descr.
P.Petr. I 19
P.Petr. III 19(a)
P.Petr.(2) I 24 - 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. 54-56, no. 19, with pl xix.
W. M. Flinders Petrie, Illahun, Kahun and Gurob: 1889-1890 (London: D. Nutt 1891), pp. 46-47.
E. Revillout, Mélanges sur la métrologie l'économic politique et l'histoire de l'ancienne Égypte (Paris: J. Maissonneuve 1895), p. 400.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 32, no. 19(a).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. x, no. 493 descr.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 340, no. 301.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 345-346.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 142.
C. H. Roberts, Greek literary hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), p. 5.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 159.
W. Clarysse, The Petrie Papyri. Second Edition (P. Petrie2). Volume I: the Wills (Collectanea Hellenistica 2) (Brussel: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie 1991), pp. 225-233, no. 24, with pl. 28.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 162.
S. Scheuble-Reiter, Die Katökenreiter im ptolemäischen Ägypten (München: C. H. Beck 2012), p. 87, n. 174.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)