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Papyrus 518
- Record Id:
- 040-002104900
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000203
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468856.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 518
- Title:
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Letters to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 50, P.Petr. II 4(9), P.Petr. III 42c(2), TM 44593; P.Petrie Kleon 51, 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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Two letters to Cleon from mummy cartonnage.
Upper papyrus (A) (P.Petrie Kleon 50, P.Petr. II 4(9), P.Petr. III 42c(2), TM 44593): Letter to Cleon from the stonecutters working in Patsontis, who ask for helpers to be sent so that they may finish the work quickly or else they will abandon it. The place is desolate and they have no food. With address and docket on the back and a drawing (sketch of canals? Van Beek 2017). Dated to 3 November 256 BC.
Lower Papyrus (B) (P.Petrie Kleon 51, P.Petr. II 4(1)+(9), P.Petr. III 42c(2-3), P.Lond. III 510+518b descr., TM 2611): Fragment belonging to Papyrus 510. Letter of the foremen of the quarry-men 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. Dated to 18 December 256 BC.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104900 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 518 : Letters to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 50, P.Petr. II 4(9), P.Petr. III 42c(2), TM 44593; P.Petrie Kleon 51, P.Petr. II 4(1)+(9), P.Petr.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1096]/040-002104900
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, from mummy cartonnage, housed in the same glass frame.
Upper papyrus (A): Mid-brown sheet, with plaster residue and holes; written on both sides. The front bears 13 lines written across the fibres; margins are minimal. The modern annotation indicates the mummy from which the papyrus derives. In the lower half of the back there are two lines along the fibres, and a drawing at the top.
Lower papyrus (B): Fragment of the same papyrus sheet as Papyrus 510, being its lower left-hand corner; bearing the beginnings of the last three lines, written across the fibres. The back is blank. With traces of plaster.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0256
- End Date:
- -0256
- Date Range:
- 3 November-18 December 256 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 140 x 120 mm; B: 58 x 171 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 285 x 265 mm.
Script: A: Fluent, upright cursive hand, with lines inclining upwards; with erasures and insertions in a smaller hand. B: Medium-sized, thin, upright semi-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.Lond. III 518a descr.
P.Petr. II 4(1)+(9)
P.Petr. II 4(9)
P.Petr. III 42c(2)
P.Petr. III 42c(2)+(3)
P.Petrie Kleon 50
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. 505.
A
A. H. Sayce, ‘Notes on the Petrie Papyri’, Hermathena 17 (1891), pp. 52-59 (p. 52).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 12, no. 4(9), with pl. iii(1).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 103, no. 42c(2).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xii, no. 518a descr.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, ‘L'ingénieur Cléon’, Revue des études grecques 21 (1908), pp. 121-152.
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 (p. 210).
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 (esp. pp. 42-43).
B. Van Beek, The archive of the architektones Kleon and Theodoros (P. Petrie Kleon) (Collectanea Hellenistica VII) (Leuven: Peeters 2017), pp. 99-101, no. 50.
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.
B
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. Glnaville (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)