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Papyrus 571
- Record Id:
- 040-002104953
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00025c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128637.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 571
- Title:
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Account of Household Expenses (P.Petr. II 33a, P.Petr. III 143, P.Lond. III 571 descr., TM 7609)
- Scope & Content:
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Account of expenses of a household, with entries and amounts stated in drachmas and obols for the months of Athyr and Choiak. Among the expenses are those for rent, workers, animals, loaves of bread which have been sent, and tools. An account of wheat follows.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104953 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 571 : Account of Household Expenses (P.Petr. II 33a, P.Petr. III 143, P.Lond. III 571 descr., TM 7609) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1039]/040-002104953
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet from mummy cartonnage, with plaster residue and few holes; damaged at the bottom; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Portions of two columns survive. The first comprises 36 lines, well preserved, and the second 20 lines, broken off to the right. Upper and left margins survive. A sheet-join partly survives in the left margin, running along the height of the sheet. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128637.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0299
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 335 x 217 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 385 x 270 mm.
Script: Somewhat thick hand of fair size, with some ligatures and more cursive in places; lines in column 1 tend to incline upwards.
- 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.Lond. III 571 descr.
P.Petr. II 33a
P.Petr. III 143 - 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.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), pp. 34-35, 113, no. 33a.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 333, no. 143.
U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien: ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Leipzig-Berlin: Gieseke & Devrient 1899), pp. 667, 676.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xvi, no. 571 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 369.
C. C. Caragounis, ‘ΟΨΩΝΙΟΝ: A Reconsideration of Its Meaning’, Novum Testamentum 16 (1974), pp. 35-57 (p. 47, n. 1).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), pp. 113-114
S. von Reden, Money in Ptolemaic Egypt: From the Macedonian Conquest to the End of the Third Century BC (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press 2007), pp. 138, 142.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)