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Papyrus 531
- Record Id:
- 040-002104913
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000214
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468932.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 531
- Title:
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Business Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 21, P.Petr. II 13(2), P.Petr. III 42c(10), P.Lond. III 531 descr., TM 7634)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Cleon by a sender whose name is damaged, asking him to provide thirty ropes to the village head, which are to be used for repairing the sluice gates, and to send the man in charge of the gates.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104913 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 531 : Business Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 21, P.Petr. II 13(2), P.Petr. III 42c(10), P.Lond. III 531 descr., TM 7634) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1072]/040-002104913
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Long and narrow papyrus slip extracted from mummy cartonnage, damaged at the bottom, with holes in the upper portion and plaster residue; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There is a column of 16 lines, with blank space between lines 14 and 15. The upper margin is extant, no margin was left at the sides. A sheet-join runs along the height of the sheet in the left margin, with the right-hand sheet being on top of the left-hand sheet. The modern annotation at the top indicates the mummy from which the papyrus derives. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468932.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0255
- End Date:
- -0255
- Date Range:
- 14 August 255 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 245 x 75 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 290 x 115 mm.
Script: Cursive hand of fair size, with a slight slant to the right; 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 531 descr.
P.Petr. II 13(2)
P.Petr. III 42C(10)
P.Petrie Kleon 21 - 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. 508.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 34, no. 13(2), with pl. VI(1).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 104, no. 42c(10).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xiii, no. 531 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 353.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, ‘L'ingénieur Cléon’, Revue des études grecques 21 (1908), pp. 121-152.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 160.
W. Clarysse, ‘Egyptian Scribes writing Greek’, Chronique d'Égypte 68 (1993), pp. 186-211 (p. 191, no. 16).
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. 63-64, no. 21.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), pp. 197, 337, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)