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Papyrus 596(A-B)
- Record Id:
- 040-002104979
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000296
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469193.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 596(A-B)
- Title:
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Register of Wills (P.Petr.2 I 16, SB XIV 11306, P.Petr. III 11, 16, P.Lond. III 596(a-b) descr., TM 47309)
- Scope & Content:
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Portions of a roll listing wills for the year 236-235 BC. Additional fragments preserving parts of the same columns and of a third consecutive column are BL Papyrus 492(A), and some papyrus fragments in Trinity College. BL Papyrus 497 (P.Petr.2 I 17) follows P.Petr.2 I 16, with two columns probably missing between them.
Left fragment (A): Conclusion of the will of Ammonius, son of Andromachus, aged 70, who bequeaths his possessions to his son Marsyas; should anything happen to Marsyas, two of the slaves should be set free. With list of witnesses and beginning of a new will, with dating clause (col. iii of P.Petr.2 I 16).
Right fragment (B): Conclusion of the will of Antipater of Cyrene, military settler, aged 75, who makes provisions for his wife Dionysia; with list of witnesses (col. i of P.Petr.2 I 16).
The other fragments contain further portions of these wills, and the wills of Calas, Macedonian, aged 70, and of Ptolemaeus, son of Heraclides, who bequeath their possessions to their wives.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104979 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 596(A-B) : Register of Wills (P.Petr.2 I 16, SB XIV 11306, P.Petr. III 11, 16, P.Lond. III 596(a-b) descr., TM 47309) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1141]/040-002104979
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two fragments from two sheets of the same papyrus roll, reused as mummy cartonnage, written on one side along the fibres and mounted on cardboard in a glass frame. Further fragments of the same portions of the roll are BL Papyrus 492(A) and the papyri in Trinity College, Dublin, inventoried as FF4 (five fragments), FF6, F30. Altogether, they preserve portions of three consecutive columns.
Left fragment (A): The fragment joins one of the Trinity College fragment inventoried as FF4, and preserves the beginnings of 20 lines from the feet of a column (the third of the roll to be preserved); the lines lack one letter to the left. Part of the lower margin is preserved.
Right fragment (B): The fragment joins BL Papyrus 492A at the bottom, and contains 20 lines from the lower left part of a column (the first preserved). Part of the lower survives.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0236
- End Date:
- -0235
- Date Range:
- 236-235 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 175 x 70 mm; B: 150 x 115 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 225 x 235 mm.
Script: Regular and rather small professional cursive hand; same hand as P.Petr.2 I 16, 18-21.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), 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.Lond. III 596(a-b) descr.
P.Petr. III 11, 16
P.Petr.(2) I 16
SB XIV 11306 - 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 I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), pp. 41-42, 49-50, no. 17(1-2).
U. Wilcken, ‘P.Petr. III’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 3 (1906), pp. 511-521 (p. 513).
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), pp. 19-22, nos. 10-11, pp. 27-30, nos. 14-17(a-b).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 379.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 144.
F. Uebel, Die Kleruchen Ägyptens unter den ersten sechs Ptolemäem (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1968), nos. 888, 891, 894-895, 897, 899-901, 904, 915-921, 923-925.
W. Clarysse, ‘Three Soldiers' Wills in the Petrie Collection: A Reedition’, Ancient Society 2 (1971), pp. 7-20.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 115.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XIV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1983), pp. 28-30, no. 11306.
R. Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner 1990), no. 30.
W. Clarysse, The Petrie Papyri. Second Edition (P. Petrie2). Volume I: the Wills (Collectanea Hellenistica 2) (Brussel: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie 1991), pp. 171-197, no. 16, with pll. 17-22 (with further bibliography).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)