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Papyrus 502
- Record Id:
- 040-002104884
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001f3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468797.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 502
- Title:
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Official Letter (P.Petr. I 26, P.Petr. II 12(1), P.Petr. III 29(a), Chrest.Wilck. 449, P.Lond. III 502 descr., TM 7411)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of Agenor to Theodorus, concerning the damaging of houses used for billeting. With address and docket including date of receipt on the back.
Lines 1-7: Letter of Agenor to Theodorus.
Lines 8-9: Copy of the letter of the strategus Aphthonetus to Agenor, enclosing the memorandum of Andronicus and instructing the recipient to investigate on the matter.
Line 10-end: Letter of Andronicus to Aphthonetus. In Krokodilopolis, houses used for billeting appear to have been damaged by their owners so that they may not be used, and altars have been built against them. Andronicus instructs Aphthonethus to write to Agenor and compel the owners to move the altars.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104884 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 502 : Official Letter (P.Petr. I 26, P.Petr. II 12(1), P.Petr. III 29(a), Chrest.Wilck. 449, P.Lond. III 502 descr., TM 7411) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1112]/040-002104884
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragmentary papyrus sheet from mummy cartonnage, with two larger fragments and two smaller ones, lacking part of the upper left portion and damaged at the bottom. The sheet broke in the middle, along the vertical fold. The surface is damaged in places, and displays some plaster residue, especially on the back. Writing runs across the fibres on the front, which bears 17 lines; blanks are left between lines 7 and 8, and lines 9 and 10. Margins partly survive. A modern annotation at the bottom refers to the mummy from which the papyrus comes. The writing on the back, occupying the upper left-hand corner, runs along the fibres and is upside down in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468797.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0242
- End Date:
- -0242
- Date Range:
- 6 August 242 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 194 x 356 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 410 mm.
Script: Neat, large, upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt (?).
Provenance: Gurob, 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:
- Chrest.Wilck. 449
P.Lond. III 502 descr.
P.Petr. I 26
P.Petr. II 12(1)
P.Petr. III 29(a)
Sel.Pap. II 413 - 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. 503.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), p. 74, no. 26, with pl. xxvi.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), pp. 28-30, no. 12(1).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 62, no. 29a.
W. Otto, Priester und Tempel im hellenistischen Ägypten I (Leipzig: Teubner 1905), p. 169.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xi, no. 502 descr.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 529-530, no. 449.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 352.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 560-563, no. 413.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 68.
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), p. 23.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 277.
S. Pfeiffer, Ägypten unter fremden Herrschern zwischen persischer Satrapie und römischer Provinz (Frankfurt am Main: Verl. Antike 2007), pp. 171-172.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)