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Papyrus 521
- Record Id:
- 040-002104903
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000206
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468870.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 521
- Title:
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Letter concerning Quarries (P.Petrie Kleon 53, P.Petr. II 5(a-b), P.Petr. III 42b(5), P.Lond. III 521a-d descr., TM 7638)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments perhaps of the same letter, concerning the work of stonecutters; the workers may have left the district. Sender and recipient are lost.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104903 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 521 : Letter concerning Quarries (P.Petrie Kleon 53, P.Petr. II 5(a-b), P.Petr. III 42b(5), P.Lond. III 521a-d descr., TM 7638) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1110]/040-002104903
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Four fragments of varying size from mummy cartonnage, perhaps from the same text; writing runs across the fibres on the front, the back being blank. The fragments are mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
Upper fragment (A): Broken off at the top, bottom and right; portion of 6 lines remain, with a trace of another line at the bottom. The left margin measures 8 mm.
Fragment in the middle (B): Lower portion of the sheet, broken off at the top and right; with 6 lines; the lower margin measures 15 mm and the left 8 mm.
Lower left fragment (C): Broken off on all sides; with portions of 5 lines and traces of another line at the top and bottom.
Lower right fragment (D): Broken off on all sides; with portions of 8 lines.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468870.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0256
- End Date:
- -0255
- Date Range:
- 25 December 256 BC-23 January 255 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 60 x 170 mm; B: 70 x 170 mm; C: 55 x 65 mm; D: 65 x 35 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 255 mm.
Script: Thin, upright practised hand, neat and small.
- 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 cartonnage found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 521a-d descr.
P.Petr. II 5(a-b)
P.Petr. III 42b(5)
P.Petrie Kleon 53 - 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. 506.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 16, no. 5(a-b).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 103, no. 42b(5).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xii, 521a-d 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.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 160.
W. Clarysse, ‘Linguistic diversity in the archive of the engineers Kleon and Theodoros’, in T. V. Evans, 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. 106-108, no. 53.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)