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Papyrus 557
- Record Id:
- 040-002104939
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00024e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469069.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 557
- Title:
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Legal Proceedings (P.Petr. II 21(a-d), P.Petr. III 24, P.Lond. III 557 descr., Chrest.Mitt. 28, TM 7402)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragmentary proceedings concerning a dispute on a loan of 300 artabas of wheat that Sosus borrowed from Sotaerus. The latter brought Diogenes as a witness; with names of the judges at the beginning and statement of the witness.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104939 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 557 : Legal Proceedings (P.Petr. II 21(a-d), P.Petr. III 24, P.Lond. III 557 descr., Chrest.Mitt. 28, TM 7402) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1037]/040-002104939
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Four papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage, three of which were joined, with plaster residue and some surface damage; writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. The detached fragment contains portions of 15 lines, with only few traces of lines 1 and 15; the larger fragment bears portions of two columns, the first of which is better preserved. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469069.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0232
- End Date:
- -0231
- Date Range:
- 232-231 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Left fragment: 120 x 68 mm; Right fragment: 261 x 218 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 305 x 315 mm.
Script: Regular, slightly uneven, upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), 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:
- Chrest.Mitt. 28
P.Lond. III 557 descr.
P.Petr. II 21(a-d)
P.Petr. III 24 - 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), pp. 66-67, no. 21.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 52, no. 24.
U. Wilcken, ‘P.Petr. III’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 3 (1906), pp. 511-521 (pp. 514-516).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xv, no. 557 descr.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 24-25, no. 28.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 359-360.
Prosopographia Ptolemaica. 2 L'armée de terre et la police (Louvain: Lovanii Bibliotheca Universitatis 1952), p. 110, no. 2825.
Prosopographia Ptolemaica, III: Le clergé, le notariat, les tribunaux (Louvain: Lovanii Bibliotheca Universitatis 1952), p. 299, no. 7922; p. 300, no. 7926; p. 301, no. 7935; p. 302, nos. 7944, 7947; p. 303, nos. 7954, 7955.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 90.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 123.
D. Kaltsas, Dokumentarische Papyri des 2. Jh. v. Chr. aus dem Herakleopolites (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter 2001), pp. 101, 102, 107.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 129.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)