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Papyrus 555
- Record Id:
- 040-002104937
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00024c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469058.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 555
- Title:
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Petition of a Prisoner (P.Petr. II 19(1), P.Petr. III 35a, P.Lond. III 555 descr., TM 7431)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragmentary petition of Dionysius to Cleonymus, asking for aid so that he may be released from prison, where he lacks all the necessities.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104937 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 555 : Petition of a Prisoner (P.Petr. II 19(1), P.Petr. III 35a, P.Lond. III 555 descr., TM 7431) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1035]/040-002104937
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two detached fragments from a papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, darkened in places and with residue of plaster; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The upper fragment preserves 10 lines from the top of a column, the last being mutilated; the upper margin is extant and the left survives up to line 7. The lower fragment is the lower left corner of the sheet and bears portions of 4 lines and the lower margin. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469058.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0260
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 260-200 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Upper fragment: 81 x 137 mm; Lower fragment: 45 x 89 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 205 x 185 mm.
Script: Regular thick cursive hand, slightly uneven towards the end, in very black ink; the last line is smaller.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, 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 555 descr.
P.Petr. II 19(1)
P.Petr. III 35(a) - 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. 512.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 60, no. 19 (1).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 73, no. 35a.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xv, no. 555 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 358.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 108.
A. Di Bitonto, ‘Frammenti di petizioni del periodo tolemaico’, Aegyptus 56 (1976), pp. 109-143 (pp. 110, 117, 140, 143).
J. Bauschatz, Law and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press 2013), pp. 166, 240, 253, 257.
J. Bauschatz, ‘Ptolemaic Prisons Reconsidered’, The Classical Bulletin 83 (2007), pp. 3–47 (p. 39 and passim).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)