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Papyrus 544
- Record Id:
- 040-002104926
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000241
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469007.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 544
- Title:
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Register of Correspondence (P.Petrie Kleon 86, P.Petr. II 13(18a), P.Petr. III 42g(7)ro., P.Lond. III 544ro. descr., TM 7663; P.Petrie Kleon 87, P.Petr. II 13(18b), P.Petr. III 42g(7)vo., P.Lond. III 544vo. descr., TM 7719)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Petrie Kleon 86, P.Petr. II 13(18a), P.Petr. III 42g(7)ro., P.Lond. III 544ro. descr., TM 7663): Draft with a list of business-related matters, such as money due, stones which ought to be delivered, shortage of ships for transporting stones, contracts to be drawn up. A visit of the king is mentioned. Dated to about 253 BC.
Verso (P.Petrie Kleon 87, P.Petr. II 13(18b), P.Petr. III 42g(7)vo., P.Lond. III 544vo. descr., TM 7719): Draft of a letter addressed to Archestratus, enclosing the copy of a petition and ordering that a public notice on contracts for stone works be issued. Further instructions follow. Two lines are written the other way up and may not be related to this text.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104926 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 544 : Register of Correspondence (P.Petrie Kleon 86, P.Petr. II 13(18a), P.Petr. III 42g(7)ro., P.Lond. III 544ro. descr., TM 7663;… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1104]/040-002104926
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet from mummy cartonnage, mutilated at the top and bottom, and with some surface damage and plaster residue; written on both sides, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The front bears 20 lines, the back, rotated 180 degrees, has 22 lines; the last two lines are written the other way up; the modern annotation refers to the mummy from which the papyrus comes.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469007.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0260
- End Date:
- -0253
- Date Range:
- 260-253 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 230 x 140 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 190 mm.
Script: Irregular upright cursive hand, with a tendency to become more cursive; with erasures, additions and corrections; paragraphus is used. Perhaps hand of Cleon? (Van Beek 2017).
- 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 cartonnage found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 544ro. descr.
P.Lond. III 544vo. descr.
P.Petr. II 13(18a)
P.Petr. II 13(18b)
P.Petr. III 42g(7)
P.Petrie Kleon 86
P.Petrie Kleon 87 - 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. 510.
Recto
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), pp. 43-44, no. 13(18a).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 111, no. 42g(7).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xiv, 544ro. 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. 355.
W. Clarysse, ‘The Ptolemies visiting the Egyptian choran’, in L. Mooren (ed.), Politics, administration and society in the Hellenistic and Roman world: proceedings of the international colloquium, Bertinoro 19-24 July 1997 (Leuven: Peeters 2000), pp. 29-54.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 177.
W. Clarysse, ‘Linguistic diversity in the archive of the engineers Kleon and Theodoros’, in T. V. Evans, 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. 15-152, no. 86.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), pp. 129, 197.
Hauben, ‘Carrying Stones on Egypt's Waterways in the Mid-250s BC. A Contribution to the Study of the Kleon and Zenon Archives’, Ancient Society 49 (2019), pp. 185-206 (pp. 187-188).
Verso
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), pp. 44-45, no. 13(18b).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 111, no. 42g(7).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xiv, 544vo. descr.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, ‘L'ingénieur Cléon’, Revue des études grecques 21 (1908), pp. 121-152.
K. Fitzler, Steinbrüche und Bergwerke im ptolemaischen und römischen Ägypten. Ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1910), pp. 23-24.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 355.
W. Clarysse, ‘Linguistic diversity in the archive of the engineers Kleon and Theodoros’, in T. V. Evans, 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. 150-152, no. 86.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), pp. 129, 197.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)