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Papyrus 594
- Record Id:
- 040-002104977
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000294
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471992.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 594
- Title:
- Fragment of an Official Document (P.Petr. III 125, TM 7593)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragment of an official letter reporting on a misapplication of public funds; the names of the correspondents are lost, but a certain Cleinias had been accused.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104977 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 594 : Fragment of an Official Document (P.Petr. III 125, TM 7593) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1454]/040-002104977
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragment of a medium-brown papyrus sheet extracted from mummy cartonnage, complete at the bottom and on the right; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears the ends of 19 lines; right and lower margins are extant. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471992.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0260
- End Date:
- -0240
- Date Range:
- 260-240 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 230 x 155 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 205 mm.
Script: Neat and overall regular semi-cursive hand of medium size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, meris of Herakleides, 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 cartonnage found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Petr. III 125
- 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. 513.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xvi, no. 594 descr.
John P. Mahaffy, J. Gilbart Smyly, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, III (Dublin: The Academy House, 1905), pp. 314-15, no. 125.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)