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Papyrus 569
- Record Id:
- 040-002104951
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00025a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128604.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 569
- Title:
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Petition about a Theft (P.Petr. II 32(1), P.Petr. III 36d, P.Lond. III 569 descr., TM 7436)
- Scope & Content:
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Petition to Dorotheus, upper-level financial official (epimeletes), from the tanner Petosiris, who accuses a certain Dionysius to have entered his house and carried off his clothes, pillows, wool, cups, tools and more, for a value of 2600 drachmas. Petosiris asks that Dionysius be summoned and return the stolen items. The text continues on the back. An endorsement, written the other way up, confirms Dorotheus’ intervention.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104951 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 569 : Petition about a Theft (P.Petr. II 32(1), P.Petr. III 36d, P.Lond. III 569 descr., TM 7436) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1027]/040-002104951
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two halves of a papyrus sheet reused for mummy cartonnage, with no loss in between, with holes and surface damage throughout; written on both sides. On the front there is one column of 32 lines along the fibres; the text continues on the back, with 8 lines written across the fibres and, in the other fragment, 3 lines written across the fibres in reverse direction. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128604.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0197
- End Date:
- -0197
- Date Range:
- 22 September 197 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Upper fragment: 165 x 158 mm; Lower fragment: 154 x 157. Housed in a glass frame measuring 370 x 205 mm.
Script: Upright cursive hand of medium size, more cursive in places; one erasure and addition above the line. Different hand for the three lines on the back written the other way up.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Destination: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), 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 569 descr.
P.Petr. II 32(1)
P.Petr. III 36d - 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. 514.
U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien: ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte I (Leipzig-Berlin: Gieseke & Devrient 1899), pp. 224, 294, 354, and passim.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), pp. 108-109, no. 31(1).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 78, no. 36d.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xvii, no. 569 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 368.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 177.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 159.
Ch. Armoni, Studien zur Verwaltung des Ptolemäischen Ägypten: Das Amt des Basilikos Grammateus. Papyrologica Coloniensia 36 (Padeborn Schôningh, 2012), pp. 141-142.
G. Baetens, ‘A petition to the epimeletes Dorotheos in Trinity College Dublin’, Ancient Society 44 (2014), pp. 91-104 (pp. 94-95).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)