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Papyrus 528
- Record Id:
- 040-002104910
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000211
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468914.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 528
- Title:
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Letter of a Prisoner (P.Petr. II 10(2), P.Petr. III 32(b), P.Lond. III 528 descr., TM 7423)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Phaies, financial official (oikonomos), from Ammonius, scribe near Oxyrhyncha, who reports that he has been imprisoned at the door of the strategus’ office by the assistant.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104910 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 528 : Letter of a Prisoner (P.Petr. II 10(2), P.Petr. III 32(b), P.Lond. III 528 descr., TM 7423) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1054]/040-002104910
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, with irregular lower margin; lacking the upper right corner and with a hole in the left portion; otherwise well preserved. Writing runs across the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are 14 lines, complete; the last word is written after a blank. Upper and side margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468914.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0221
- End Date:
- -0205
- Date Range:
- 221-205 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 185 x 166 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 215 mm.
Script: Thin, large, upright hand, ligatured in places.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. A: Destination: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), 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 528 descr.
P.Petr. II 10(2)
P.Petr. III 32(b) - 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. 26, no. 10(2).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 66, no. 32(b).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xiii, no. 528 descr.
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), nos. 268, 1091.
F. Uebel, Die Kleruchen Ägyptens unter den ersten sechs Ptolemäem (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1968), p. 249, n. 4.
J. D. Sosin, ‘P.Duk.inv. 677: Aetos, from Arsinoite Strategos to Eponymous Priest’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 116 (1997), pp. 141–146 (p. 146, n. 15).
L. H. Blumell, C. Aliberti, ‘A Case of Ptolemaic Quid Pro Quo from the Phaies Archive’, Ancient Society 48 (2018), pp. 1-8 (pp. 1, 4-5).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)