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Papyrus 506
- Record Id:
- 040-002104888
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001f7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128576.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 506
- Title:
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Official Letter to a Strategus (P.Petr. II 2(2), P.Petr. III 28b, Chrest.Mitt. 22, P.Lond. III 506 descr., TM 7407)
- Scope & Content:
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An official letter from Moschion to Diophanes, strategus of the Arsinoite nome, concerning a dispute between Dionysius and Dorimachus. Moschion summoned Dionysius, who denied the charges against him. Moschion is now sending Dionysius to Diophanes. With address and docket including date and summary on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104888 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 506 : Official Letter to a Strategus (P.Petr. II 2(2), P.Petr. III 28b, Chrest.Mitt. 22, P.Lond. III 506 descr., TM 7407) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1029]/040-002104888
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, almost complete, only lacking the lower right corner; with few holes and minor surface damage in places. Writing runs across the fibres on the front and along them on the back. On the front there are 8 lines, with line 7 written in the right-hand half of the sheet, and line 8 indented. All margins survive, and there is a modern annotation. The back bears 3 lines written in the lower left corner and an additional line next to them; the text was written 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_100143128576.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0222
- End Date:
- -0222
- Date Range:
- 20 May 222 BC
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 100 x 315 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 145 x 355 mm.
Script: Recto: Neat, regular, large upright hand, with some elongated strokes and ligatured letters; the last line is more cursive and smaller. Verso: Column 1: Small cursive hand; Column 2: Upright hand of fair size.
- 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 cartonnage found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 22
P.Lond. III 506 descr.
P.Petr. II 2(2)
P.Petr. III 28b - 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. 3, no. 2(2).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 58, no. 28b.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xi, no. 506 descr.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 19, no. 22.
T. C. Skeat, ‘The Macedonian Calendar during the Reign of Ptolemy Euergetes I’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 34 (1948), pp. 75-79 (p. 76).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 158.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), p. 219.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)