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Papyrus 585
- Record Id:
- 040-002104967
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00028a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469173.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 585
- Title:
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Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 10, P.Petr. II 42c, P.Petr. III 42h(6), P.Lond. III 585 descr., TM 7672)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragmentary letter of Philonides to his father Cleon. The subject is unclear owing to the loss of text, but several men are mentioned, among which is Xanthippus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104967 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 585 : Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 10, P.Petr. II 42c, P.Petr. III 42h(6), P.Lond. III 585 descr., TM 7672) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1066]/040-002104967
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The larger fragment contains portions of 24 lines, all lacking the beginnings and some mutilated at the end too; the smaller fragment bears few letters of 6 lines. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469173.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0260
- End Date:
- -0249
- Date Range:
- 260-249 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 235 x 113 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 300 x 180 mm.
Script: Thin, regular upright hand, with occasional ligatures. (Hand of Philonides).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Alexandria, Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, 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:
- P.Lond. III 585 descr.
P.Petr. II 42c
P.Petr. III 42h(6)
P.Petrie Kleon 10 - 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.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 139, no. 42c.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 113, no. 42h(6).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xvii, no. 585 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 375.
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. 41-43, no. 10.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), p. 197.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cleon, engineer (architekton); married to Metrodora; father of Philonides and Polycrates, mid 3rd century BC
Philonides, mid 3rd century BC - Places:
- Alexandria, Egypt
Arsinoite nome (Fayum), Egypt
Gurob, meris of Herakleides (?), Arsinoite nome, Egypt - Related Material:
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The fragments belong to the archive of ‘Kleon and Theodoros engineers’ (TM Arch ID 122). Same hand as P.Petrie Kleon 7-9, 11 and 15.