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Papyrus 505
- Record Id:
- 040-002104887
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001f6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128549.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 505
- Title:
-
Petition to a Strategus (P.Petr. II 2(1), P.Petr. III 28a, Chrest.Wilck. 337, P.Lond. III 505 descr., TM 7406)
- Scope & Content:
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Petition to Diophanes, strategus of the Arsinoite nome, from Onetor, Asclepiades and Musaeus against the veteran Lysander, accompanying a petition to the king and concerning problems with the lease of a plot of land in Euhemeria.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104887 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 505 : Petition to a Strategus (P.Petr. II 2(1), P.Petr. III 28a, Chrest.Wilck. 337, P.Lond. III 505 descr., TM 7406) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1028]/040-002104887
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off to the left, damaged by holes and with minor surface damage; written on one side along the fibres. A scrap with writing is glued onto the back. The front bears 22 lines, lacking the beginnings, for a loss of 3-5 letters; the text breaks off at the bottom. Upper and right margins survive. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128549.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0222
- End Date:
- -0221
- Date Range:
- 222-221 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 283 x 130 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 340 x 190 mm.
Script: Upright cursive hand of medium size; one erasure and addition above the line. Different hand for the date at the beginning and the three lines on the back written the other way up.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Euhemeria, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.(?).
Provenance: Gurob, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Destination: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), 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. 337
P.Lond. III 505 descr.
P.Petr. II 2(1)
P.Petr. III 28a - 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 II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 2, no. 2(1).
U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien: ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte I (Leipzig-Berlin: Gieseke & Devrient 1899), pp. 186, 194.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 58, no. 28a.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xi, no. 505 descr.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 396-398, no. 337.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 67.
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt. Case studies in the Social History of the Hellenistic world (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), pp. 56-68.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 207.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)