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Papyrus 532
- Record Id:
- 040-002104914
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000215
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468937.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 532
- Title:
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Letter from Niceratus to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 52, P.Petr. II 4(10), 5c, P.Petr. II 13(3), P.Petr. III 42c(8), P.Lond. III 532 descr., TM 7644)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of Niceratus to Cleon, reporting that part of the wall of the fortification collapsed, and the rest is being dragged down. Niceratus asks Cleon to draw up the contract and give it to the building contractor, so that he may start. Prisoners sent from Apollonius are mentioned. The letter was sent on 9 January and received on 11 January.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104914 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 532 : Letter from Niceratus to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 52, P.Petr. II 4(10), 5c, P.Petr. II 13(3), P.Petr. III 42c(8), P.Lond. III 532 descr.,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1078]/040-002104914
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two joining fragments of a papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, with plaster residue in the upper fragment and some surface damage in places. The front bears 10 lines written across the fibres; the upper and lower margins measure 20 and 15 mm respectively. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468937.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0255
- End Date:
- -0255
- Date Range:
- January 255 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 125 x 127 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 205 mm.
Script: Professional and regular upright cursive hand of medium size.
- 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 532 descr.
P.Petr. II 13(3)
P.Petr. II 4(10)
P.Petr. II 5c
P.Petr. III 42c(8)
P.Petrie Kleon 52 - 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. 13, no. 4(10); p. 16, no. 5c; pp. 34-35, no. 13(3).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 104, no. 42c(8).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xiii, no. 532 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. 353.
Prosopographia Ptolemaica IV. L'Agriculture et l'élevage (Louvain: Lovanii Bibliotheca Universitatis 1959), p. 199, no. 10319.
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.
J. Bauschatz, Law and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press 2013), pp. 245-246.
B. Van Beek, The archive of the architektones Kleon and Theodoros (P. Petrie Kleon) (Collectanea Hellenistica VII) (Leuven: Peeters 2017), pp. 104-106, no. 52.
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)