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Papyrus 587
- Record Id:
- 040-002104969
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00028c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469177.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 587
- Title:
-
Loan of Money (P.Petr. II 47, P.Petr. III 55b, Chrest.Mitt. 135, P.Lond. III 587 descr., TM 2903)
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of a contract for a loan of 330 drachmas, the lender being the cleruch (military settler) Hestiaeus and the borrower Donomazis, whereby the parties agree not to dispute over the loan. With dating clause at the beginning and list of the six witnesses, all cleruchs, at the end, followed by the subscription of Hestiaeus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104969 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 587 : Loan of Money (P.Petr. II 47, P.Petr. III 55b, Chrest.Mitt. 135, P.Lond. III 587 descr., TM 2903) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1044]/040-002104969
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off at the top and right, with plaster residue and some surface damage in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The beginnings of 38 lines survive, with traces of another line at the top; the last 11 lines are indented; blank space separates lines 33 and 34. Lower and left margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469177.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0210
- End Date:
- -0209
- Date Range:
- 210-209 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 284 x 129 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 320 x 160 mm.
Script: Small, thin cursive hand, with lines slightly inclining downwards; 2nd hand for the subscription in the last five lines, with interlinear addition.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), 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.Mitt. 135
P.Lond. III 587 descr.
P.Petr. II 47
P.Petr. III 55b - 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), pp. 154-155, no. 47.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 161, no. 55b.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xvii, no. 587 descr.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 152, no. 135.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 376-377.
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.
F. Uebel, Die Kleruchen Ägyptens unter den ersten sechs Ptolemäem (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1968), p. 63 and passim.
W. Clarysse, ‘Notes on three Papyri concerning Ptolemaic Clerouchs (P. Hib. I 146; SB V 7631; P. Petrie II, 47)’, Ancient Society 6 (1975), pp. 71-77 (pp. 76-77).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 114.
W. Clarysse, G. van Derveken, The Eponymous Priests of Ptolemaic Egypt: Chronological Lists of the Priests of Alexandria and Ptolemais with a Study of the Demotic Transcriptions of their Names (P.L. Bat. 24) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1983), pp. 16-17.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), pp. 170-171.
W. Clarysse, Chr. Fischer-Bovet, ‘A military reform before the battle of Raphia?’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 58 (2012), pp. 26-35 (p. 33).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 171.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)