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Papyrus 497
- Record Id:
- 040-002104879
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001ee
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468768.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 497
- Title:
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Wills (P.Petr.2 I 17, P.Petr. III 13(a-b), P.Lond. III 497 descr., TM 47311; P.Petr.2 I 1, P.Petr. I 21, P.Petr. III 1, P.Lond. III 497 descr., TM 47329)
- Scope & Content:
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Register of wills from mummy cartonnage.
Left papyrus (A) (P.Petr.2 I 17, P.Petr. III 13(a-b), P.Lond. III 497 descr., TM 47311): End of the will of a testator whose name is lost, with list of witnesses, and beginning of the will of Menander of Amphipolis, who makes provisions for his wife Agatharchis and for the children she may bear (236-235 BC).
Three fragments from Trinity College, Dublin, preserve additional portions of these two wills and a third will of Euphronius of Cyrene, who bequeaths his possessions to his wife.
Right papyrus (B) (P.Petr.2 I 1, P.Petr. I 21, P.Petr. III 1, P.Lond. III 497 descr., TM 47329): Two fragmentary wills (238-237 BC).
Column 1: Will of a man whose name is lost; the heirs are at least two, one of Thessalian origin; with witnesses at the end.
Column 2: Will of Maron, son of Euphranor, aged 80, who makes provisions for Musta, daughter of Demetrius, of Rhodian origin, and for Meneia, daughter of Menneas, bequeathing a sanctuary and adjoining plots and a courtyard.
Further portions of these two columns and part of another column with the will of a certain Antigenes, Macedonian, are preserved in three fragments belonging to the collections of Halle University and Trinity College, Dublin.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104879 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 497 : Wills (P.Petr.2 I 17, P.Petr. III 13(a-b), P.Lond. III 497 descr., TM 47311; P.Petr.2 I 1, P.Petr. I 21, P.Petr. III 1, P.Lond. III… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1139]/040-002104879
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- File
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Two fragments from two papyrus sheets of the same register, reused as mummy cartonnage, with plaster residue on the back; mounted in the same glass frame.
Left papyrus (A): Papyrus fragment, broken off at the bottom and sides, and written on one side along the fibres. The back bears no writing. The front contains portions of 19 lines, with traces of another line at the bottom; they all lack beginnings and ends. Part of the upper margin survives. Three additional fragments, all from Trinity College, Dublin (inv. nos. F29 and E16), contain further portions of this column and parts of 8 lines of another column preceding this one.
Right papyrus (B): Broken off at the bottom and damaged by holes, especially at the top; bearing portions of two columns, written along the fibres on the front; of the first column, the ends of 19 lines survive; of the second column, 24 lines remain. Two sheet-joins run along the height of the papyrus, the first at c. 20 mm from the end of column 1 and the other at c. 5 mm from the right edge. With plaster and traces of ink on the back.
Three additional fragments containing furhter portions of these two columns and the beginning of a third column are in Trinity College, Dublin, and at Halle University. The fragment inventoried as Trinity College Dublin FF 73 joins the BL papyrus at the bottom on the left and preserves 11 additional lines of column 1 and traces of 4 other lines from column 2. The fragment of Halle University (inv. no. 55) joins the BL fragment to the right and contains the ends of 9 lines from column 2 and the beginnings of 16 lines from column 3. The other fragment in Trinity College (FF1) joins the Halle papyrus at the bottom and the BL papyrus at the bottom right, and preserves the ends of 8 lines of column 2 and portions of 15 lines of column 3.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0238
- End Date:
- -0235
- Date Range:
- 238 BC-235 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 155 x 57 mm; B: 175 x 220 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 210 x 375 mm.
Script: A: Professional cursive hand; same hand as P.Petr.2 I 16, 18-20. B: Thin, neat and regular professional cursive hand of small size, with lines slightly inclining upwards.
- 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 497 descr.
P.Petr(2) I 17
P.Petr. I 21
P.Petr. III 1
P.Petr. III 13(a-b)
P.Petr.(2) I 1 - 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. 502.
A
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), p. 60.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), pp. 3, 25-26, no. 13(a-b).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. x, no. 497 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 379.
F. Uebel, Die Kleruchen Ägyptens unter den ersten sechs Ptolemäem (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1968), nos. 905-912, passim.
Prosopographia Ptolemaica VIII (Louvain: Lovanii Bibliotheca Universitatis 1975), nos. 1835, 1872, 1947a, 3929, 3959b, 4005b, 4155, 4216.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 115.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 161.
W. Clarysse, The Petrie Papyri. Second Edition (P. Petrie2). Volume I: the Wills (Collectanea Hellenistica 2) (Brussel: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie 1991), pp. 198-206, no. 17 (with further bibliography).
B
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), pp. 59-61, no. 21, with pl. xxi.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), pp. 1-3, no. 1.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. x, no. 497 descr.
Dikaiomata: Auszüge aus alexandrinischen Gesetzen und Verordnungen in einem Papyrus des Philologischen Seminars der Universität Halle (Pap. Hal. 1) (Berlin: Weidmann 1913), no. 11.
A. Calderini, M. Untersteiner, O. Accordi, N. Volani, ‘Ricerche etnografiche sui papiri greco-egizî’, Studi della Scuola Papirologica 3 (1920), pp. 3-85 (p. 9).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 378.
M. Launey, Recherches sur les armées hellénistiques I (Paris: De Boccard 1949), p. 597.
Prosopographia Ptolemaica, III: Le clergé, le notariat, les tribunaux (Louvain: Lovanii Bibliotheca Universitatis 1952), p. 174, nos. 6643, 6646.
F. Uebel, Die Kleruchen Ägyptens unter den ersten sechs Ptolemäem (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1968), nos. 123, 876-878, passim.
W. Clarysse, G. van Derveken, The Eponymous Priests of Ptolemaic Egypt: Chronological Lists of the Priests of Alexandria and Ptolemais with a Study of the Demotic Transcriptions of their Names (P.L.Bat. 24) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1983), pp. 10-11.
W. Clarysse, The Petrie Papyri. Second Edition (P. Petrie2). Volume I: the Wills (Collectanea Hellenistica 2) (Brussel: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie 1991), pp. 57-82, no. 1 (with further bibliography).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 161.
B. Legras, ‘Les testaments grecs dans le droit hellénistique: la question des héritières et des testatrices’, Symposion 2005: Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Salerno, 14.-18. September 2005) = Comunicazioni sul diritto greco ed ellenistico (Salerno, 14-18 settembre 2005) (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2007), pp. 293-306 (pp. 303-304, no. 1).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)