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Papyrus 575
- Record Id:
- 040-002104957
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000260
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469140.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 575
- Title:
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Register of Correspondence (P.Petrie Kleon 88, P.Petr. II 37, P.Petr. III 44(2), P.Lond. III 575 descr., TM 7450)
- Scope & Content:
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Register of outgoing letters concerning irrigation.
Recto
Column 1, lines 1-6: Order to supply materials, as the water is rising.
Lines 7-end: Report on the gates that had been opened and are in operation, and order to write to the guard of the dyke.
Column 2, lines 1-13: Fragmentary letter, mentioning gates and supplies;
Lines 14-end: Letter to Diogenes, concerning works on the dyke to avoid that the releasing of water would drag it away.
Columns 3-4: Fragmentary letters, the last addressed to Dionysius.
Verso
Column 1, lines 1-16: Letter to Dionysius, reporting that some of the sluices near Ptolemais have been opened by the water, and requesting for materials to be sent.
Lines 17-end: Portion of another letter, with the order to send something in Ptolemais.
Column 2, lines 1-9: Portion of a letter, reporting on various matters, among which is the opening of a sluice gate.
Lines 10-15: Letter to Dionysius, urging him to ensure that the works are finished soon.
Lines 16-23: Letter to Aristarchus, stating that two gates were opened and asking to write should another gate need to be opened.
Lines 24-end: Letter to Paues, on the works still unfinished at a canal in Sebennytos, inspected by Paues.
Column 3, lines 1-7: End of a letter, on a delivery.
Lines 8-16: Letter to Theophilus, requesting a daily report on the loads of materials agreed by the nomarchs.
Line 17-end: Portion of a letter to Dionysius, reporting that a man has not come to the sluice at Montila.
Column 4: Portion of another letter.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104957 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 575 : Register of Correspondence (P.Petrie Kleon 88, P.Petr. II 37, P.Petr. III 44(2), P.Lond. III 575 descr., TM 7450) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1093]/040-002104957
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus fragment with detached scrap from mummy cartonnage, with traces of plaster in places; lacking part of the top and bottom; written on both sides, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. Each side bears portions of 4 columns; three sheet-joins run along the height of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469140.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0242
- End Date:
- -0241
- Date Range:
- 242-241 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 305 x 420 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 370 x 485 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, upright cursive, with lines slightly inclining upwards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, 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 575 descr.
P.Petr. II 37
P.Petr. III 44(2)
P.Petrie Kleon 88 - 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. 515.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), pp. 119-120, no. 37.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), pp. 132-133, no. 44(2).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xvi, no. 575 descr.
A. Bouché-Leclercq, ‘L'ingénieur Cléon’, Revue des études grecques 21 (1908), pp. 121-152.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 381-382.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 115.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 162.
D. Bonneau, Le régime administratif de l'eau du Nil dans l'Égypte grecque, romaine et byzantine (Leiden-New York: E. J. Brill 1993), pp. 75, 80, and passim.
W. Clarysse, ‘Linguistic diversity in the archive of the engineers Kleon and Theodoros’, in T. V. Evans, D. D. Obbink (eds.), The Language of the Papyri (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2010), pp. 35-50.
B. Van Beek, The archive of the architektones Kleon and Theodoros (P. Petrie Kleon) (Collectanea Hellenistica VII) (Leuven: Peeters 2017), pp. 155-163, no. 88.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)