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Papyrus 578
- Record Id:
- 040-002104960
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000283
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471972.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 578
- Title:
- Tax Account and Invocation of Thoth (P.Petr. III 110(a-b), P.Petr. II 39(e), TM 7569, 90840)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments extracted from mummy cartonnage.
Recto: Tax registers in Greek, recording tax payments in money and wheat, arranged in columns; reference to orphans is made; portions of earlier Demotic lines are visible. The second year of Ptolemy Euergetes III = 246-245 BC is mentioned.
Verso: Invocation of Thoth in Demotic; one column of a Greek account, unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104960 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 578 : Tax Account and Invocation of Thoth (P.Petr. III 110(a-b), P.Petr. II 39(e), TM 7569, 90840) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1448]/040-002104960
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Five papyrus fragments of varying size from a roll, extracted from mummy cartonnage; written on both sides. The front bears portions of three columns written along the fibres on the largest fragment, and portions of additional lines on the smallest fragments; on the back, there are columns of a Demotic and Greek texts running across the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471972.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Egyptian (Ancient)
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Egyptian demotic
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: Largest fragment: 265 x 183 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 360 x 330 mm.
Script: Greek text: Neat and small cursive hands.
- 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 cartonnages found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 578 descr.
P.Petr. II 39(e)
P.Petr. III 110(a-b) - 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.
Recto
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House, 1893), p. 128, no. 39e, 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. 110(a-b).
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xvii, no. 578 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 373.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1933), p. 109.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, III (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958), p. 143.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976), p. 116.
Verso
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, Part II (Dublin: The Academy House, 1893), p. 130.
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. 110(a-b).
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xvii, no. 578 descr.
Robert K. Ritner, ‘Hermes Pentamegistos’, Göttinger Miszellen, 49 (1981), 73-76.
Jan Quaegebeur, ‘Thot - Hermès, le dieu le plus grand!’, Hommages à François Daumas, 1-2 vols. (Montpellier: Université de Montpellier, 1986), vol. 2, pp. 525-44.
A. A. Den Brinker, B. P. Muhs, S. P. Vleeming, A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents (Leuven: Peeters, 2005), p. 298.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)