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Papyrus 559
- Record Id:
- 040-002104941
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000250
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469080.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 559
- Title:
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Receipt of a Charioteer (P.Petr. II 25b, P.Lond. III 559 descr., TM 7496)
- Scope & Content:
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The driver Cephalon acknowledges that he has received from Charmus, agent of Asclepiades, the financial official (oikonomos) of the Arsinoite nome, bread, oil and wine for the drivers, bread and oil for the grooms, besides oil for lighting and further goods on account of a disabled horse and additional drivers.
A fragment of another receipt is at the bottom of the frame.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104941 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 559 : Receipt of a Charioteer (P.Petr. II 25b, P.Lond. III 559 descr., TM 7496) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1019]/040-002104941
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments that do not belong together of two papyrus sheets from mummy cartonnage, written across the fibres and mounted on cardboard in the same glass case.
Upper papyrus: Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, rubbed and with other surface damage in places; written across the fibres on one side. 22 lines from the top of a column survive, with a trace of another line at the bottom; blank space separates lines 2 and 3; side and upper margins are extant.
Lower papyrus: Small fragment from a light-brown papyrus sheet, with portions of four lines, lacking the beginnings.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469080.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0226
- End Date:
- -0226
- Date Range:
- 20 March 226 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Upper papyrus: 203 x 160 mm; Lower papyrus: 34 x 108 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 315 x 200 mm.
Script: Thin and small cursive hands, upright, rubbed in places.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Ptolemais Hormou (El-Lahun), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, 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 559 descr.
P.Petr. II 25b
P.Petr. III 61b - 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. 73, no. 25b.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 178, no. 61b.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xv, no. 559 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 360.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 207.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)