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Papyrus 570
- Record Id:
- 040-002104952
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00025b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471958.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 570
- Title:
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Petitions and Official Correspondence (Petr. II 32(2a), P.Petr. II 32(g), TM 7427, 7699, 7700)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (TM 7427, 7699): Two petition for redress following acts of violence, dated 18 November and 5 December 217 BC respectively. In the first, a watchman who had been set to guard has been assaulted by a certain Ptolemy and his friends.
Verso (TM 7700): Copies of the official correspondence of the financial official of the Arsinoite nome, including letters from Bacchius to Alexander and Harmais to Bacchius.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104952 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 570 : Petitions and Official Correspondence (Petr. II 32(2a), P.Petr. II 32(g), TM 7427, 7699, 7700) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1445]/040-002104952
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet extracted from mummy cartonnage, with surface damage and plaster residue in places; written on both sides. The front bears two columns written along the fibres one under the other, after some blank space. The back contains one column running across the fibres, written the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471958.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0217
- End Date:
- -0217
- Date Range:
- 217 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 337 x 240 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 385 x 285 mm.
Script: Recto: Column 1: Neat and careful small upright hand, without ligatures; column 2: Cursive hand. Verso: Thin and small cursive hand.
- 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 cartonnage found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Petr. II 32(2a)
- 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.
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, II (Dublin: The Academy House, 1893), pp. 110-12, no. 32(2a), 32g.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xvi, no. 570 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 369, 381.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976), p. 113.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), p. 171.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)