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Papyrus 510
- Record Id:
- 040-002104892
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001fb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468814.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 510
- Title:
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Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 51, SB XVIII 13881, P.Petr. II 4(1)+(9), P.Petr. III 42c(2-3), P.Lond. III 510+518b descr., TM 2611)
- Scope & Content:
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The foremen of the quarry-men write to Cleon with a complaint against the superintendent Apollonius. Apollonius assigned the soft rocks to his own men, while the senders of the letter have to work on the hard rock, wearing out their iron tools. They ask that the amount of rock cut be measured correctly. With address and docket on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104892 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 510 : Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 51, SB XVIII 13881, P.Petr. II 4(1)+(9), P.Petr. III 42c(2-3), P.Lond. III 510+518b descr., TM 2611) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1095]/040-002104892
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet from mummy cartonnage, with plaster residue; Papyrus 518(b) belongs to the same sheet and is the lower left-hand portion. Writing runs across the fibres on the front and along them on the back. The front has 8 lines; the last word is written after some blank space. Margins survive. The back bears one column of 3 lines. The sheet was probably folded vertically in the middle. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468814.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0256
- End Date:
- -0256
- Date Range:
- 18 December 256 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 145 x 170 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 380 mm.
Script: Recto: Large, upright semi-cursive hand, with occasional space between words. Verso: Small cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, 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 cartonnages found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond III 510+518b descr.
P.Petr. II 4(1)+(9)
P.Petr. III 42c(2)+(3)
P.Petrie Kleon 51
SB XVIII 13881 - 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. 6, no. 4(1), p. 12, no. 4(9).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), pp. 103-104, no. 42c(2-3).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xi, no. 510 descr.; p. xii, no. 518b descr.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, ‘L'ingénieur Cléon’, Revue des études grecques 21 (1908), pp. 121-152.
K. Fitzler, Steinbrüche und Bergwerke im ptolemaischen und römischen Ägypten. Ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1910), p. 30.
C. C. Edgar, ‘Four Petrie Papyri Revisited’, in S. R. K. Glanville (ed.), Studies presented to F. Ll. Griffith (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1932), pp. 209-214 (pp. 211-212).
B. Mertens, ‘A Letter to the Architecton Kleon: P. Petrie II 4,1 + 4,9’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 59 (1985), pp. 61-66.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XVIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1993), pp. 382-383, no. 13881.
R. S. Bagnall, P. Derow, The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation (Oxford- Malden, MA: Blackwell 2004), p. 169, no. 104.
W. Clarysse, ‘Linguistic diversity in the archive of the engineers Kleon and Theodoros’, in T. V. Evans, D. D. Obbink (eds.), The Language of the Papyri (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2010), pp. 35-50.
B. Van Beek, The archive of the architektones Kleon and Theodoros (P. Petrie Kleon) (Collectanea Hellenistica VII) (Leuven: Peeters 2017), pp. 101-104, no. 51.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), p. 197.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)