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Papyrus 520
- Record Id:
- 040-002104902
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000205
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468866.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 520
- Title:
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Letter about Irrigation (P.Petrie Kleon 24, P.Petr. II 4(13), P.Petr. III 42d(1), P.Lond. III 520 descr., TM 7650)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter concerning the works required on a canal. The sender, whose name is lost, informs the recipient that he has sent him a copy of the letter to a certain Timoxenus concerning this matter. The addressee is asked to meet or write to another person about this. With address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104902 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 520 : Letter about Irrigation (P.Petrie Kleon 24, P.Petr. II 4(13), P.Petr. III 42d(1), P.Lond. III 520 descr., TM 7650) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1084]/040-002104902
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragmentary papyrus sheet, with detached strips, reused as mummy cartonnage; with plaster residue and holes in the preserved portion; broken off to the left (front), with a loss of c.17 letters (90 mm); written on both sides. The front bears 8 lines running across the fibres, lacking the beginnings; only line 8 is complete. Upper and lower margins measure 20-25 mm; the right margin is minimal. The modern annotation at the bottom refers to the mummy from which the papyrus derives. On the back there is the end of a word written along the fibres, 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_100147468866.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0254
- End Date:
- -0254
- Date Range:
- 1 March 254 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 131 x 225 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 190 x 285 mm.
Script: Professional semi-cursive hand, upright; with interlinear addition.
- 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 520 descr.
P.Petr. II 4(13)
P.Petr. III 42d(1)
P.Petrie Kleon 24 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), pp. 505-506.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 15, no. 4(13), with pl. iv(2).
E. Revillout, Mélanges sur la métrologie l'économic politique et l'histoire de l'ancienne Égypte (Paris: J. Maissonneuve 1895), p. 390.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 106, no. 42d(1).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xii, no. 520 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. 351.
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. 66-67, no. 24.
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)