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Papyrus 584(a-b)
- Record Id:
- 040-002104966
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000289
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469168.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 584(a-b)
- Title:
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Official Letter (P.Petrie Kleon 79, P.Petr. II 42a, P.Petr. III 43(1), P.Lond. III 584a descr., TM 7448), and Private Letter (P.Petr. II 42b, P.Petr. III 42i, P.Lond. III 584b descr., TM 7675)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper papyrus (A) (P.Petrie Kleon 79, P.Petr. II 42a, P.Petr. III 43(1), P.Lond. III 584a descr., TM 7448): Fragmentary circular of Aristander to various officials, stating that Theodorus, vice-engineer, is in charge of dykes and sluices. Dated to 25 October 250 BC-24 October 249 BC.
Lower papyrus (B) (P.Petr. II 42b, P.Petr. III 42i, P.Lond. III 584b descr., TM 7675): Letter of Cleon to Paion, asking him to send a donkey, urgently needed for the transport of fodder. Cleon is about to depart.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104966 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 584(a-b) : Official Letter (P.Petrie Kleon 79, P.Petr. II 42a, P.Petr. III 43(1), P.Lond. III 584a descr., TM 7448), and Private… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1102]/040-002104966
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus sheets from mummy cartonnage, housed in the same glass frame.
Upper papyrus (A): Light brown, broken off at the bottom, lacking part of the right-hand portion and with holes in places. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank; 9 lines survive; upper and left margins measure 40 and 15 mm respectively; the right margin survives from line 5 and measures 25 mm.
Lower papyrus (B): Mid-dark brown, with surface damage; 6 lines written on the front along the fibres, and traces of writing running across the fibres on the back. Lower and left margins are extant on the front.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0260
- End Date:
- -0246
- Date Range:
- 260-246 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 120 x 140 mm; B: 65 x 134 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 275 x 195 mm.
Script: A: Official cursive hand. B: Rough and irregular cursive hand, with corrections.
- 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 cartonnages found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 584a descr.
P.Lond. III 584b descr.
P.Petr. II 42a
P.Petr. II 42b
P.Petr. III 42i
P.Petr. III 43(1)
P.Petrie Kleon 79 - 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. 517.
A
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 138, no. 42a.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 117, no. 43(1).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xvi, 584a 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. 375, 467.
Prosopographia Ptolemaica 1. L'administration civile et financière (Louvain: Lovanii Bibliotheca Universitatis 1950), no. 1021.
D. Bonneau, Le régime administratif de l'eau du Nil dans l'Égypte grecque, romaine et byzantine (Leiden-New York: E. J. Brill 1993), p. 198.
J. F. Oates, The Ptolemaic basilikos grammateus. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Supplement 8 (1995), p. 53.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 160.
T. Kruse, Der Königliche Schreiber und die Gauverwaltung 1 (München- Leipzig: K.G. Saur 2002), p. 15, n. 24.
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. 140-141, no. 79, with pl. 9.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), pp. 129, 197.
B
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 138, no. 42b.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 116, no. 42(i).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xvi, 584b descr.
S. Witkowski, Epistulae privatae Graecae quae in papyris aetatis Lagidarum servantur (Lipsiae: Teubner 1911), no. 9.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 381.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 109.
B. Van Beek, The archive of the architektones Kleon and Theodoros (P. Petrie Kleon) (Collectanea Hellenistica VII) (Leuven: Peeters 2017), pp. 8-9.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)