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Papyrus 499(A-C)

Record Id:

040-002104881

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001f0

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147471919.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 499(A-C)

Title:

Fragments of Documents (P.Petr. I 24, P.Petr. III 52(b), TM 2898)

Scope & Content:

Three papyrus fragments from cartonnage.

Upper papyrus (A) (P.Petr. I 24(1), P.Petr. III 52(b)1): Conclusion of a document, of which only the date survives (230 BC?).

Second papyrus (B) (P.Petr. I 24(2), P.Petr. III 52(b)2): Fragment of a contract, dated in January or February 269 BC.

Lower papyrus (C) (P.Petr. I 24(3), P.Petr. III 52(b)3): Conclusion of a letter, dated 13 June 256 or 255 BC.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104881

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 499(A-C) : Fragments of Documents (P.Petr. I 24, P.Petr. III 52(b), TM 2898)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1440]/040-002104881

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Three papyrus fragments that do not belong together, extracted from mummy cartonnage, mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.

Upper papyrus (A): Lower right corner of a medium-brown papyrus, with plaster residue; written on one side across the fibres. The end of 1 line survives, with a small trace of another line at the top, and lower and right margins. The back is blank.

Second papyrus (B): Fragment of a medium-brown papyrus, complete at the top and broken off on the other sides; written on one side across the fibres. Portions of 10 lines survive, with only scant traces of the last two lines; the upper margin is extant. The back is blank.

Lower papyrus (C): Bottom of a medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete on the sides and broken off at the top; written on one side across the fibres. Four lines from the bottom of a column survive, with lower and side margins. The back is blank.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

-0269

End Date:

-0230

Date Range:

269-230 BC

Era:

BCE

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: A: 43 x 87 mm; B: 99 x 196 mm; C: 55 x 169 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 285 x 240 mm.

Script: Three neat and upright hands of varying size.

Custodial History:

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 499(a-c) descr.
P.Petr. I 24
P.Petr. III 52(b)

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum, 1901), p. 512.

Willy Clarysse, Griet 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. 3, 7, and passim.

John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, Part I (Dublin: The Academy House, 1891), pp. 79-80, no. 24(1), with pl. xxiv.

John P. Mahaffy, J. Gilbart Smyly, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, Part III (Dublin: The Academy House, 1905), pp. no. 52.

Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. x, no. 499(a) descr.

Pieter W. Pestman, A Guide to the Zenon Archive (Leiden: Brill, 1981), p. 259.

John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, Part I (Dublin: The Academy House, 1891), pp. 79-80, no. 24(2), with pl. xxiv.

John P. Mahaffy, J. Gilbart Smyly, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, Part III (Dublin: The Academy House, 1905), p. 146, no. 52(b).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 346.

John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, Part II (Dublin: The Academy House, 1893), p. 127, no. 39c, with plate.

Ludwg Koenen, Eine agonistische Inschrift aus Ägypten und frühptolemäische Königsfeste (Meisenheim am Glan: Hain, 1977), pp. 87-98.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 207.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009), p. 158.

John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, Part I (Dublin: The Academy House, 1891), pp. 79-80, no. 24(2), with pl. xxiv.

John P. Mahaffy, J. Gilbart Smyly, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, Part III (Dublin: The Academy House, 1905), p. 146, no. 52(b).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Gurob, meris of Herakleides (?), Arsinoite nome, Egypt