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Papyrus 541(a-b)
- Record Id:
- 040-002104923
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00021e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468985.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 541(a-b)
- Title:
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Letters from the Archive of Cleon and Theodorus (P.Petrie Kleon 65, P.Petr. II 13(14), P.Petr. III 42e(3), P.Lond. III 541a descr., TM 7655; P.Petrie Kleon 26, P.Petr. II 13(15), P.Petr. III 42e(2), P.Lond. III 541b descr., TM 7654)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper papyrus (A) (P.Petrie Kleon 65, P.Petr. II 13(14), P.Petr. III 42e(3), P.Lond. III 541a descr., TM 7655): Letter from Harmais to Cleon on business matters. Harmais reports on bricks for a granary, and requests that the expense for the granary be sent to the builder. With docket and address on the back. Dated to 24 May-22 June 255 BC.
Lower papyrus (B) (P.Petrie Kleon 26, P.Petr. II 13(15)b, P.Petr. III 42e(2), P.Lond. III 541b descr., TM 7654): Fragmentary letter reporting on irrigation works; the names of the sender and recipient are lost through mutilation. Dated to 16 August 253 BC.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104923 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 541(a-b) : Letters from the Archive of Cleon and Theodorus (P.Petrie Kleon 65, P.Petr. II 13(14), P.Petr. III 42e(3), P.Lond. III 541a… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1100]/040-002104923
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus sheets of light colour from mummy cartonnage, with traces of plaster, housed in the same glass case.
Upper papyrus (A): With surface damage and holes throughout; the front bears 5 lines written across the fibres; upper and left margins measure 13 mm, the lower margin measures 20 mm. The modern annotation at the top left refers to the mummy from which the papyrus comes. The back bears two lines and, after a blank, a word, written along the fibres, the other way up in relation to the text of the front.
Lower papyrus (B): Right-hand portion of a papyrus, preserving the ends of 5 lines running against the fibres; the upper margin measures 15 mm, the lower 20 mm and the right 10 mm. The back is blank.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0255
- End Date:
- -0253
- Date Range:
- 255-253 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 105 x 240 mm; B: 80 x 175 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 325 mm.
Script: A: Medium-sized, upright cursive hand; B: Thin, upright cursive hand; with corrections.
- 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 541a descr.
P.Lond. III 541b descr.
P.Petr. II 13(14)
P.Petr. II 13(15)
P.Petr. III 42e(2)
P.Petr. III 42e(3)
P.Petrie Kleon 26
P.Petrie Kleon 65 - 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.
A
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 40, no. 13(14).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 107, no. 42e(3).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xiv, 541a 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. 354.
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.
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 (p. 656).
B. Van Beek, The archive of the architektones Kleon and Theodoros (P. Petrie Kleon) (Collectanea Hellenistica VII) (Leuven: Peeters 2017), pp. 126-127, no. 65.
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.
B
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 40, no. 13(15).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 107, no. 42e(2).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xiv, 541b descr.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, ‘L'ingénieur Cléon’, Revue des études grecques 21 (1908), pp. 121-152.
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. 70-71, no. 26.
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)