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Papyrus 579
- Record Id:
- 040-002104961
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000284
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 579
- Title:
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Register of Taxes (P.Petr. III 109(a-e), P.Petr. II 39(f), P.Lond. III 579 descr., TM 7568)
- Scope & Content:
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A roll reused as mummy cartonnage with a register of taxes paid by military settlers (cleruchs) and covering three years; among the taxes listed are those for the maintenance of embankments, the salt-tax, the tax for the maintenance of guards, the pasture fee.
Papyrus 579(1) = P.Petr. III 109a-b;
Papyrus 579(2), lower fragment = P.Petr. III 109c;
Papyrus 579(2), detached scrap = P.Petr. III 109d;
Papyrus 579(2), upper fragment = P.Petr. III 109e.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104961 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 579 : Register of Taxes (P.Petr. III 109(a-e), P.Petr. II 39(f), P.Lond. III 579 descr., TM 7568) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1024]/040-002104961
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, reused for mummy cartonnage, and housed in two glass frames named Papyrus 579(1) and Papyrus 579(2). Writing runs along the fibres on the front; portions of 12 columns survive. Scattered on the back are few lines written across the fibres.
Papyrus 579(1) (a-b): Portions of 6 columns on the front, with part of the upper margin surviving;
Papyrus 579(2): Fragments bearing the feet of 11 columns on the front.
Upper fragment (e): Feet of 5 columns, with lower margin and blank to the left.
Lower fragment (c): Feet of 5 columns, with lower margin and modern annotation.
Small fragment (d): 5 lines from one column.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0248
- End Date:
- -0248
- Date Range:
- After 1 November 248 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Papyrus 579(1): 287 x 425 mm; Papyrus 579(2): Upper fragment: 162 x 325 mm; Lower fragment: 167 x 380; Scrap: 33 x 104 mm. Housed in two glass frames named Papyrus 579(1) and Papyrus 579(2), measuring 380 x 485 mm, and 380 x 480 mm respectively.
Script: Thin cursive hand, somewhat uneven, occasionally smaller.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, 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 579 descr.
P.Petr. II 39(f)
P.Petr. III 109(a-e) - 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. 516.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 131, no. 39f.
U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien: ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte I (Leipzig-Berlin: Gieseke & Devrient 1899), pp. 143, 402.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), pp. 264-274, no. 109a-e.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xvii, no. 579 descr.
F. Übel, Die Kleruchen Ägyptens unter den ersten sechs Ptolemäern (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1968), p. 79.
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. 92-93.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Gurob, meris of Herakleides (?), Arsinoite nome, Egypt