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Papyrus 566
- Record Id:
- 040-002104948
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000257
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469115.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 566
- Title:
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Hire of Animals (P.Petr. II 25i, P.Petr. III 62a, P.Lond. III 566 descr., TM 2901)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract for the hire of twenty-four animals, the parties involved being eleven donkey-drivers and the financial official (oikonomos) Asclepiades; with dating clause at the beginning.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104948 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 566 : Hire of Animals (P.Petr. II 25i, P.Petr. III 62a, P.Lond. III 566 descr., TM 2901) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1038]/040-002104948
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Two joining fragments of a papyrus sheet from mummy cartonnage, broken off at the bottom and right, lacking the upper right corner of the preserved portion and with some surface damage; writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. The beginnings of 16 lines from the top of a column remain; left and upper margins survive. A trace of ink is visible in the left margin opposite line 14. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469115.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0225
- End Date:
- -0225
- Date Range:
- 8 November 225 BC
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 140 x 138 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 190 x 215 mm.
Script: Somewhat irregular and uneven cursive hand, thicker in places; with erasure and interlinear additions.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Meris of Polemon, 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 cartonnage found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 566 descr.
P.Petr. II 25i
P.Petr. III 62a - 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. 513.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 79, no. 25i.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 181, no. 62a.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xvi, no. 566 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 361.
W. Clarysse, G. van Derveken, The Eponymous Priests of Ptolemaic Egypt: Chronological Lists of the Priests of Alexandria and Ptolemais with a Study of the Demotic Transcriptions of their Names (P.L. Bat. 24) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1983), p. 14.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)