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Papyrus 536
- Record Id:
- 040-002104918
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000219
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468960.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 536
- Title:
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Letter to Zopyrus (P.Petrie Kleon 84, P.Petr. II 13(7), P.Petr. III 64b, P.Lond. III 536 descr., TM 7509)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Zopyrus, the name of the sender being lost, concerning a theft of money which happened to Isidote, daughter of Theodorus, in Krokodilopolis. The sender has made arrangements so that the money may be restored to Isidote. The order for the payment is enclosed.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104918 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 536 : Letter to Zopyrus (P.Petrie Kleon 84, P.Petr. II 13(7), P.Petr. III 64b, P.Lond. III 536 descr., TM 7509) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1092]/040-002104918
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragmentary papyrus sheet, reused as mummy cartonnage, lacking most of its left-hand half, and broken off to the right; written on one side along the fibres. There is one column of 25 lines, with a blank between lines 16 and 17; a fragment in Dublin contains the ends of lines 6-25 and traces of the top of another column. The upper margin measures 30 mm, the left 10 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468960.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0238
- End Date:
- -0238
- Date Range:
- 27 July 238 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 320 x 155 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 370 x 205 mm.
Script: Large and clear hand, upright and thin.
- 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 536 descr.
P.Petr. II 13(7)
P.Petr. III 64b
P.Petrie Kleon 84 - 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. 38, no. 13(7).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 184, no. 64b.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xiii, no. 536 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. 356.
R. S. Bagnall, ‘The Ptolemaic Trierarchs’, Chronique d'Égypte 46 (1971), pp. 356-362 (p. 360).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 211.
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), p. 96.
N. Pellé, ‘Dalla corrispondenza di J.G. Smyly. Le lettere di F.G. Kenyon: un esempio di amicitia papyrologorum’, in A. Casanova, G. Messeri, R. Pintaudi (eds.), E sì d’amici pieno. Omaggio di studiosi italiani a Guido Bastianini per il suo settantesimo compleanno. Papyrologica Florentina 45. Vol. 2 (Firenze: Edizioni Gonnelli 2016), pp. 651-664 (pp. 656-657).
B. Van Beek, The archive of the architektones Kleon and Theodoros (P. Petrie Kleon) (Collectanea Hellenistica VII) (Leuven: Peeters 2017), pp. 146-148, no. 84.
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)