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Papyrus 498
- Record Id:
- 040-002104880
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001ef
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468772.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 498
- Title:
- Beginning of a Document (P.Petr. I 22(1), P.Petr. III 145 descr., P.Lond. III 498 descr., TM 2897)
- Scope & Content:
- Beginning of a contract, with date and mention of a certain Aristios of Cyrene.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104880 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 498 : Beginning of a Document (P.Petr. I 22(1), P.Petr. III 145 descr., P.Lond. III 498 descr., TM 2897) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1439]/040-002104880
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus fragment from mummy cartonnage, broken off at the bottom and sides; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. Portions of 4 lines from the top of a column remain; the upper margin survives. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468772.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0250
- End Date:
- -0249
- Date Range:
- 250-249 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 72 x 197 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 115 x 250 mm.
Script: Small, cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, 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 cartonnages found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 498 descr.
P.Petr. I 22(1)
P.Petr. III 145 descr. - 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.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), pp., no. 22, with pl. xxii (1).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. x, no. 498 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 346.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 159.
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), p. 9 and passim.
D. Kaltsas, Dokumentarische Papyri des 2. Jh. v. Chr. aus dem Herakleopolites (P.Heid. VIII) (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter 2001), p. 200.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 158.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)