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Papyrus 511(A-B)
- Record Id:
- 040-002104893
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001fc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468818.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 511(A-B)
- Title:
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Letter from Apollonius to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 57, P.Petr. II 4(2), P.Petr. III 42c(4), P.Lond. III 511(a-b) descr., TM 7640)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Cleon from Apollonius on the agreement he had reached with the foremen of the stonecutters before Diotimus, and which concerned the number of men engaged in the work, the ration of stones, and their wages. Apollonius had already provided this information in an earlier letter, and now instructs Cleon about the wedges to be supplied to each man. With address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104893 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 511(A-B) : Letter from Apollonius to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 57, P.Petr. II 4(2), P.Petr. III 42c(4), P.Lond. III 511(a-b) descr., TM 7640) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1094]/040-002104893
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two fragments of a mid-brown papyrus sheet from mummy cartonnage; broken off at the bottom (front), with traces of plaster, especially on the back, and minor surface damage in places; written on both sides. The front bears one column of 26 lines written across the fibres, with a gap between lines 18 and 19. Side margins are minimal; the upper margin measures 15 mm. The modern annotation indicates the mummy from which the papyrus comes. The back has one word written along the fibres in the lower right corner, 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_100147468818.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0255
- End Date:
- -0255
- Date Range:
- Early 255 BC?
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 105 x 165 mm; B: 70 x 140 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 285 x 215 mm.
Script: Upright cursive hand, with a tendency to become smaller; large and upright hand on the back.
- 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 511a-b descr.
P.Petr. II 4(2)
P.Petr. III 42c(4)
P.Petrie Kleon 57 - 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. 7, no. 4(2).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 104, no. 42c(4).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xi, no. 511a-b descr.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, ‘L'ingénieur Cléon’, Revue des études grecques 21 (1908), pp. 121-152 (esp. p. 138).
K. Fitzler, Steinbrüche und Bergwerke im ptolemaischen und römischen Ägypten. Ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1910), p. 31.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 349.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 106.
T. Reekmans, ‘'Aργός and its Derivatives in the Papyri’, Chronique d'Égypte 60 (1985), pp. 275-291 (p. 277).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 159.
R. Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte II (Stuttgart: Steiner 1990), no. 217.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 277.
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. 114-117, no. 57.
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)