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Papyrus 519
- Record Id:
- 040-002104901
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000204
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468862.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 519
- Title:
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Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 33, P.Petr. II 4(12), P.Petr. III 42g(3), P.Lond. III 519 descr., TM 7659)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Cleon from Thamous on business matters, informing him that he had contracted the work and given Cleon’s receipt to Pasis. He also reported that the dyke was being flooded, and they were not responsible for this.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104901 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 519 : Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 33, P.Petr. II 4(12), P.Petr. III 42g(3), P.Lond. III 519 descr., TM 7659) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1075]/040-002104901
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Long and narrow papyrus slip covered with plaster, reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off at the bottom; the right edge was cut off. Writing runs across the fibres on one side, the back being blank. The front bears one column of 16 lines, few of which lack the ends. The upper margin measures 20 mm. The modern annotation at the top indicates the mummy from which the papyrus comes. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468862.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0260
- End Date:
- -0249
- Date Range:
- 260-249 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 165 x 75 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 215 x 130 mm.
Script: Thick hand, occasionally ligatured, written with an Egyptian brush.
- 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 519 descr.
P.Petr. II 4(12)
P.Petr. III 42g(3)
P.Petrie Kleon 33 - 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. 15, no. 4(12).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 104, no. 42c(3).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xii, no. 519 descr.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, ‘L'ingénieur Cléon’, Revue des études grecques 21 (1908), pp. 121-152.
W. Clarysse, ‘Some ghost names in Ptolemaic papyri’, in P. Naster, H. De Meulenaere, J. Quaegebeur (eds.), Miscellanea in honorem Josephi Vergote (Leuven: Dept. Oriëntalistiek 1975/1976), pp. 53-58 (p. 56).
W. Clarysse, ‘Egyptian Scribes writing Greek’, Chronique d'Égypte 68 (1993), pp. 186-211 (p. 191, no. 15).
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. 48-49).
B. Van Beek, The archive of the architektones Kleon and Theodoros (P. Petrie Kleon) (Collectanea Hellenistica VII) (Leuven: Peeters 2017), pp. 77-78, no. 33.
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)