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Papyrus 515
- Record Id:
- 040-002104897
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000200
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468839.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 515
- Title:
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Letter from Demetrius to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 54, P.Petr. II 4(6), P.Petr. III 42c(11), P.Lond. III 515 descr., TM 7646)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Cleon from Demetrius, who reports that he had been insulted in front of a crowd for having picked up a chisel belonging to someone else, and to have been attacked five days later as he wanted to distribute loaves of bread. He asks Cleon to take notice of this.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104897 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 515 : Letter from Demetrius to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 54, P.Petr. II 4(6), P.Petr. III 42c(11), P.Lond. III 515 descr., TM 7646) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1079]/040-002104897
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet from mummy cartonnage, damaged by holes, especially in the upper portion; writing runs across the fibres on the front. There are 18 lines, with the first and last being indented, and an interlinear addition. Margins are minimal. On the back there are traces of plaster; a scrap with writing along the fibres is visible in the right edge. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468839.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0255
- End Date:
- -0255
- Date Range:
- 24 January 255 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 197 x 165 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 260 x 210 mm.
Script: Thick, professional cursive hand; an Egyptian brush was used.
- 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 515 descr.
P.Petr. II 4(6)
P.Petr. III 42c(11)
P.Petrie Kleon 54 - 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. 505.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. no. 4(6).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. , no. 42c(11).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xi, no. 515 descr.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, ‘L'ingénieur Cléon’, Revue des études grecques 21 (1908), pp. 121-152.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 350.
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. 212-214).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 107.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 142.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 113.
S.-T. Teodorsson, The phonology of Ptolemaic Koine (Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1977), pp. 232-233.
W. Clarysse, ‘Egyptian Scribes writing Greek’, Chronique d'Égypte 68 (1993), pp. 186-211 (p. 193, no. 14).
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 (esp. pp. 47-48).
B. Van Beek, The archive of the architektones Kleon and Theodoros (P. Petrie Kleon) (Collectanea Hellenistica VII) (Leuven: Peeters 2017), pp. 108-111, no. 54.
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)