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Papyrus 526
- Record Id:
- 040-002104908
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00020b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468899.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 526
- Title:
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Letter to Theodorus (P.Petrie Kleon 40, P.Petr. II 9(4), P.Petr. III 43(5), P.Lond. III 526 descr., TM 7444)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of Hermaphilus to Theodorus, enclosing the copy of the letter of Teos, an official of the Arsinoite village of Tanchoiris, requesting that the irrigation work be assigned to them. Of this letter, only the beginning survives. With docket on the back including date, name of the sender, subject and address.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104908 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 526 : Letter to Theodorus (P.Petrie Kleon 40, P.Petr. II 9(4), P.Petr. III 43(5), P.Lond. III 526 descr., TM 7444) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1087]/040-002104908
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragmentary papyrus sheet from mummy cartonnage, broken off at the bottom and damaged at the top; with breaks along the folding lines; traces of plaster remain. Writing runs across the fibres on the front, and along them on the back. The front bears 7 lines and traces of another line at the bottom; upper and left margins measure c. 30 mm; the right margin is minimal. The back bears one column of three lines and a word next to it, located in the left-hand portion. The text is written upside down in relation to the front. The modern annotation indicates the mummy from which the papyrus comes. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468899.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0240
- End Date:
- -0240
- Date Range:
- 20 August 240 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 115 x 350 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 140 x 385 mm.
Script: Large, regular upright hand; more cursive hand for the date from line 5; with erasures; different cursive hand for the docket on the back, smaller and reminiscent of that of the docket in P.Petrie Kleon 39 (Papyri 524+525).
- 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 526 descr.
P.Petr. II 9(4)
P.Petr. III 43(5)
P.Petrie Kleon 40 - 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. 507.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 24, no. 9(4).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 131, no. 43(5).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xii, no. 526. 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. 352.
Prosopographia Ptolemaica 1. L'administration civile et financière (Louvain: Lovanii Bibliotheca Universitatis 1950), no. 1038.
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. 87-88, no. 40.
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)