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Papyrus 582
- Record Id:
- 040-002104964
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000287
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469157.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 582
- Title:
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Letter to Elephant Hunters (P.Petr. II 40a, P.Petr. III 53g, Chrest.Wilck. 452, P.Lond. III 582 descr., TM 7473)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of Marnes to Nektenibis, Atibis and others, reassuring them that the time left for them to stay there is little: the change-over is being prepared and the elephant hunters will soon be there. They should expect a supply of grain from Heroonpolis. Marnes inquires about the price of grain after the sink of a ship transporting elephants.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104964 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 582 : Letter to Elephant Hunters (P.Petr. II 40a, P.Petr. III 53g, Chrest.Wilck. 452, P.Lond. III 582 descr., TM 7473) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1042]/040-002104964
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Three fragments of a long and narrow papyrus sheet from mummy cartonnage, with holes and surface damage throughout; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Part of one column remains, with some lines lost in between the fragments; traces of ink are visible in the left margin. A sheet-join runs along the height in the right margin. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469157.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0224
- End Date:
- -0224
- Date Range:
- 30 November 224 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Upper fragment: 100 x 102; Middle fragment: 137 x 118; Lower fragment: 88 x 101 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 370 x 170 mm.
Script: Large, uneven, thin, cursive hand, rough and rapid; with addition above the line.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Destination: 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:
- Chrest.Wilck. 452
P.Lond. III 582 descr.
P.Petr. II 40a
P.Petr. III 53g - 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), pp. 135-136, no. 40a.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 149, no. 53g.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xvii, no. 582 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 375.
S. Witkowski, Epistulae privatae Graecae quae in papyris aetatis Lagidarum servantur (Lipsiae: Teubner 1911), no. 24.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 533-535, no. 452.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 160.
L. Casson, ‘Ptolemy II and the Hunting of African Elephants’, Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-2014) 123 (1993), pp. 247-260 (pp. 257-258, and passim).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 160.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 177.
K. Mueller, Settlements of the Ptolemies: city foundations and new settlement in the Hellenistic world (Leuven; Paris; Dudley (Mass.): Peeters 2006), pp. 152-153.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)