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Papyrus 534
- Record Id:
- 040-002104916
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000217
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468948.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 534
- Title:
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Business Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 17, P.Petr. II 13(5), P.Petrie III 42b(2), P.Lond. III 534 descr., TM 2492)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter from Panacestor, manager of the estate of Apollonius, to Cleon, who had already asked him to send out a crew for building bends of a canal. Cleon did not pass by on his way to the Little Lake, and is being reproached for not supervising the irrigation works in the land of Apollonius. He is ordered to meet Panacestor and provide instructions, or else Apollonius will be informed.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104916 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 534 : Business Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 17, P.Petr. II 13(5), P.Petrie III 42b(2), P.Lond. III 534 descr., TM 2492) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1070]/040-002104916
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet from mummy cartonnage, lacking the lower left corner, with plaster residue and some surface damage in places. Writing runs across the fibres on the front. There are 11 lines, few of which lack the beginnings. Upper and lower margins measure c. 20 mm; the left margin survives opposite lines 1-5 and measures 15 mm. No margin was left to the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468948.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0257
- End Date:
- -0257
- Date Range:
- 11 October 257 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 125 x 300 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 175 x 345 mm.
Script: Regular medium-sized cursive hand, slightly slanting to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt (?).
Provenance: Gurob, Egypt. Destination: Arsinoite nome, 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 534 descr.
P.Petr. II 13(5)
P.Petr. III 42b(2)
P.Petrie Kleon 17
P.Zen.Pestm. C - 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. 36, no. 13(5), with pl. VI(2).
E. Revillout, Mélanges sur la métrologie l'économic politique et l'histoire de l'ancienne Égypte (Paris: J. Maissonneuve 1895), p. 388.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 102, no. 42b(2).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xiii, no. 534 descr.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, ‘L'ingénieur Cléon’, Revue des études grecques 21 (1908), pp. 121-152 (p. 138).
P. W. Pestman, Greek and Demotic Texts from the Zenon Archive: P.L.Bat. 20 (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1980), p. 268, suppl. C.
C. Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula 1983), pp. 98-99.
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), p. 43.
J. V. Muir, Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World (Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon-New York, NY: Routledge 2008), pp. 62-63.
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. 55-57, no. 17.
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)