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Papyrus 517
- Record Id:
- 040-002104899
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000202
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468851.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 517
- Title:
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Letter from the Archive of Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 49, P.Petr. II 4(8), P.Petr. III 42c(1), P.Lond. III 517a descr., TM 7639), and Accounts (P.Lond. III 517b-c descr., TM 78461-78462)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper papyrus (A) (P.Petrie Kleon 49, P.Petr. II 4(8), P.Petr. III 42c(1), P.Lond. III 517a descr., TM 7639): Correspondence enclosing a letter of Philoxenus, presumably forwarded to various recipients, concerning stone-cutting works. One hundred and forty stonecutters are not working because they did not receive provisions. Philoxenus asks that 1 artaba of wheat is paid to each of them. A date (27 October 256 BC) occurs in column 1, line 6.
Lower papyri (B-C) (P.Lond. III 517b-c descr., TM 78461-78462): Fragments of accounts, unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104899 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 517 : Letter from the Archive of Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 49, P.Petr. II 4(8), P.Petr. III 42c(1), P.Lond. III 517a descr., TM 7639), and… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1101]/040-002104899
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Three papyrus fragments of varying size from mummy cartonnage, written on one side along the fibres and mounted on cardboard in one glass frame.
Upper papyrus (A): portions of two columns; of the first, the ends of 11 lines remain; of the second, 12 lines, with the last word of the last line written after a blank. Intercolumn and lower margin survive. A sheet-join runs across the fibres between the two columns. The back is blank.
Lower left papyrus (B): fragment with plaster residue and some surface damage; portions of 6 lines survive.
Lower right papyrus (C): Small fragment, broken off at all sides, with portions of 6 lines.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0299
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 175 x 160 mm; B: 66 x 122 mm; C: 67 x 46 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 300 x 245 mm.
Script: A: Careful, professional upright hand, with some serifs; B-C: Upright cursive hands of medium size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: A: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. B-C: 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 cartonnage found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 517a descr.
P.Lond. III 517b descr.
P.Lond. III 517c descr.
P.Petr. II 4(8)
P.Petr. III 42c(1)
P.Petrie Kleon 49 - 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.
A
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 11, no. 4(8).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 103, no. 42c(1).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xii, 517a 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. 210-211).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 107.
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), p. 43.
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. 97-99, no. 49.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), pp. 129, 197.
B-C
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xii, 517 b-c descr.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)