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Papyrus 593
- Record Id:
- 040-002104976
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000293
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469187.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 593
- Title:
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Private Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 7, SB VI 9440, SB III 7193, P.Lond. III 593 descr., TM 6220)
- Scope & Content:
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Philonides writes to his father Cleon, urging him that a letter be written by Telestes, presumably to the king, and reporting on some matters of palace life. With address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104976 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 593 : Private Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 7, SB VI 9440, SB III 7193, P.Lond. III 593 descr., TM 6220) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1065]/040-002104976
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Upper portion of a papyrus sheet of light colour from mummy cartonnage, mutilated throughout and with detached scrap; with plaster residue, especially on the back. Writing runs across the fibres on the front and along them on the back; the back bears traces of one word. On the front there are portions of 11 lines from the top of a column written across the fibres; upper and left margins survive; minimal margin was left to the right. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469187.0x000001 (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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 155 x 300 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 320 mm.
Script: Thin, regular upright hand. Hand of Philonides.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome or 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 593 descr.
P.Petrie Kleon 7
SB III 7193
SB VI 9440 - 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. 518.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 113.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xix, no. 593 descr.
S. Witkowski, Epistulae privatae Graecae quae in papyris aetatis Lagidarum servantur (Lipsiae: Teubner 1911), no. 5a descr.
W. Crönert, 'De critici arte in papyris exercendi', in Raccolta di scritti in onore di Giacomo Lumbroso, 1844-1925 (Milano: Aegyptus 1925), pp. 439-534 (pp. 530-533).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten III (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter 1926), pp. 210-211, no. 7183.
T. C. Skeat, ‘A Letter from Philonides to Kleon Revised (P. Lond. 593 = Crönert, "Raccolta Lumbroso" 530 = Sammelbuch 7183)’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 34 (1948), pp. 80-81.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band VI (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1958), p. 309, no. 9440.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 196.
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. 36-38, no. 7.
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)