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Papyrus 509
- Record Id:
- 040-002104891
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001fa
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471923.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 509
- Title:
- Letter from Philonides (P.Petrie Kleon 15, TM 7611)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments presumably from the same document, which a letter written by Philonides possibly to Cleon. The bearer of the letter, a certian Xanthippus, is being recommended by Philonides. The back preserves remains of the painted decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104891 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 509 : Letter from Philonides (P.Petrie Kleon 15, TM 7611) - Contains:
- Papyrus 509(1) : Part 1 of the letter
Papyrus 509(2) : Part 2 of the letter
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- 032-002104451[1441]/040-002104891
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Five fragments of varying size from a papyrus recovered from mummy cartonnage; written on one side along the fibres. The back bears remains of the cartonnage painting. Housed in two glass frames named Papyrus 509(1) and Papyrus 509(2).
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471923.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0260
- End Date:
- -0260
- Date Range:
- 260 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size, the largest measuring 212 x 190 mm; housed in two glass frames.
Script: Neat, mostly upright hand, with some narrow and large letterforms and serifs in places. Hand of Philonides.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Alexandria, 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:
- P.Petr. II 3
P.Petr. III 146
P.Petrie Kleon 15 - 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. 513.
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, 1-3 volumes (Dublin: The Academy House, 1891-1905), II (1893), p. 5, no. 3.
John P. Mahaffy, J. Gilbart Smyly, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, 1-3 volumes (Dublin: The Academy House, 1891-1905), III (1905), p. 338, no. 146.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xi, no. 509 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 349.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986), p. 159.
Bart Van Beek, The archive of the architektones Kleon and Theodoros (P. Petrie Kleon) (Collectanea Hellenistica VII) (Leuven: Peeters 2017), pp. 51-54, no. 15.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)