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Papyrus 539
- Record Id:
- 040-002104921
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00021c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468977.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 539
- Title:
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Letter from Zenon to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 19, P.Petr. II 13(11), P.Petr. III 42A, P.lond. III 539 descr., TM 2491)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of Zenon to Cleon, who is asked to open the gates so that the land may be irrigated, given that the water in the canal has not risen enough. With docket including date of receipt (one day after it was sent) and subject, and address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104921 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 539 : Letter from Zenon to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 19, P.Petr. II 13(11), P.Petr. III 42A, P.lond. III 539 descr., TM 2491) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1071]/040-002104921
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two larger fragments (A-B) and three detached scraps (C-E) of a papyrus slip from mummy cartonnage, which broke along the vertical fold. Writing runs across the fibres on the front and along them on the back; the back bears traces of one column with 3 lines in the left part, and one word next to it. On the front there 4 lines, mutilated. Margins are extant; no margin was left to the right. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468977.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0256
- End Date:
- -0255
- Date Range:
- 13 October 256 or 255 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 75 x 180 mm; B: 75 x 125 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring x mm.
Script: Rather small, upright cursive hand; different hand for the docket on the back.
- 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.Petr. II 13(11)
P.Petr. III 42A
P.Petrie Kleon 19
P.Zen.Pestm. 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. 509.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 39, no. 13(11).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 102, no. 42a.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xiv, no. 539 descr.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, ‘L'ingénieur Cléon’, Revue des études grecques 21 (1908), pp. 121-152.
C. C. Edgar, ‘Three Ptolemaic Papyri’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1928), pp. 288-293 (pp. 288-289, no. 1).
P. W. Pestman, Greek and Demotic Texts from the Zenon Archive: P.L.Bat. 20 (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1980), p. 266, suppl. B.
C. Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula 1983), p. 98.
R. Burnet, L' Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus: vie quotidienne (Paris: Pygmalion 2003), p. 104, no. 49.
B. Van Beek, ‘A Letter from Zenon to Kleon: A New Date for "P. Zen. Pestm". Suppl. B’, Ancient Society 35 (2005), pp. 119-128.
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. 58-60, no. 19.
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.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 133.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)