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Papyrus 549
- Record Id:
- 040-002104931
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000246
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469036.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 549
- Title:
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Letter of Recommendation (P.Petrie Kleon 83, P.Petr. II 15(3), P.Petr. III 43(4), P.Lond. III 549 descr. TM 7443)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragmentary letter of recommendation for a man whose name is lost. The recipient is asked to do his best so that a secretarial office is registered for the man. With marginal texts, including figures.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104931 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 549 : Letter of Recommendation (P.Petrie Kleon 83, P.Petr. II 15(3), P.Petr. III 43(4), P.Lond. III 549 descr. TM 7443) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1091]/040-002104931
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off at the top, lacking the lower corners and with some surface damage in places; written on one side, the back being blank. There are 9 lines written along the fibres; opposite line 6, 6 short lines running along the fibres were added in the left margin; at the bottom there are 5 lines written across the fibres. The left margin 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_100147469036.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0260
- End Date:
- -0236
- Date Range:
- 260-236 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 130 x 170 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 165 x 230 mm.
Script: Thick cursive hand, somewhat uneven; erasure at the end; an Egyptian brush was used; different hands for the texts in the margins.
- 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 549 descr.
P.Petr. II 15(3)
P.Petr. III 43(4)
P.Petrie Kleon 83 - 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. 511.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 53, no. 15(3).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 130, no. 43(4).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xiv, no. 549 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.
W. Clarysse, ‘Egyptian Scribes writing Greek’, Chronique d'Égypte 68 (1993), pp. 186-211 (pp. 190-192).
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. 144-146, no. 83.
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)