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Papyrus 507
- Record Id:
- 040-002104889
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001f8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128593.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 507
- Title:
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Letter of Introduction (P.Petr. II 2(4), P.Petr. III 28c, P.Lond. III 507descr., TM 7408)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of Dioscurides to his father Diophanes, recommending Asclepiades, the bearer of the letter, who is sailing up the Nile, should he need anything. With docket on the back including the name of the sender, the recipient, the Macedonian and Greek dates, and the subject of the letter, which is written the other way up.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104889 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 507 : Letter of Introduction (P.Petr. II 2(4), P.Petr. III 28c, P.Lond. III 507descr., TM 7408) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1030]/040-002104889
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two fragments of a papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, with some 20 letters lost in between; mutilated at the bottom (front), and with few small insect holes in the preserved fragments. Writing runs across the fibres on the front and along them on the back. On the front, the left fragment bears the beginnings of 3 lines and the right fragment the ends of 6 lines. Both fragments have modern annotations. On the back there are three rubbed lines arranged in one column and a word written next to it; on the other fragment, written in the reverse direction, there is another line. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128593.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0222
- End Date:
- -0222
- Date Range:
- 26 April 222 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Upper fragment: 52 x 168 mm; Lower fragment: 81 x 84 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 130 x 305 mm.
Script: Recto: Neat, regular upright hand of medium size, with some elongated strokes and ligatured letters. Verso: Column 1: Small cursive hand; Column 2: Upright hand of fair size; Column 3, written the other way up: Small cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: 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:
- P.Lond. III 507 descr.
P.Petr. II 2(3)
P.Petr. III 28(c) - 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. 504.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 4, no. 2(3).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 58, no. 28c.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xi, no. 507 descr.
S. Witkowski, Epistulae privatae Graecae quae in papyris aetatis Lagidarum servantur (Lipsiae: Teubner 1911), no. 11.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 349.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 142.
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 V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 83.
C.-H. Kim, Form and Structure of the Familiar Greek Letter of Recommendation (Missoula, MT: Society of Biblical Literature 1972).
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)