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Papyrus 577
- Record Id:
- 040-002104959
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000282
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471968.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 577
- Title:
- Account of Fares and Freights (P.Petr. III 107(a), P.Petr. II 39(c), TM 7562)
- Scope & Content:
- Daily account drawn up by Theodotus, recording the fares charged on passengers at Ptolemais Hormou in the month of Thoth.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104959 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 577 : Account of Fares and Freights (P.Petr. III 107(a), P.Petr. II 39(c), TM 7562) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1447]/040-002104959
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Light-brown papyrus sheet, extracted from mummy cartonnage, slightly damaged in places and broken off at the bottom and right; written on one side along the fibres. The back is blank. The front bears one column of 38 lines and the beginnings of a few other lines of another column. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471968.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0226
- End Date:
- -0226
- Date Range:
- 226 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 290 x 126 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 325 x 160 mm.
Script: Neat and proficient upright hand, with large and well-spaced letterforms and occasional ligatures; lines incline upwards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Ptolemais Hormou (El-Lahun), meris of Herakleides, 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 cartonnages found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 577 descr.
P.Petr. II 39(c)
P.Petr. III 107(a) - 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. 512.
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, Part II (Dublin: The Academy House, 1893), p. 127, no. 39c, with plate.
John P. Mahaffy, J. Gilbart Smyly, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, Part III (Dublin: The Academy House, 1905), pp. 254-55, no. 107a.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xvii, no. 577 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 384.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), pp. 280-81.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)