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Papyrus 597
- Record Id:
- 040-002104980
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000297
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128709.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 597
- Title:
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Official Letter on Cultivation (P.Petr. III 89, P.Lond. III 597 descr., TM 7544)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of Heraclides, presumably the chief financial official (oikonomos), to a recipient whose name is damaged, with instructions as to the distribution of seed through comarchs and village-scribes for the sowing of castor-oil plant to the farmers listed. Only part of column 1 has been published.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104980 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 597 : Official Letter on Cultivation (P.Petr. III 89, P.Lond. III 597 descr., TM 7544) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1046]/040-002104980
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus fragment reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off at the bottom and right, with plaster residue and surface damage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are portions of two columns; of the second, only the beginnings of the line survive. The upper margin is extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128709.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0261
- End Date:
- -0223
- Date Range:
- 261-223 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: x mm; housed in a glass case measuring x mm.
Script: Regular cursive hand of medium size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, 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 cartonnage found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 597 descr.
P.Petr. II 89 - 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.
B. P. Grenfell, Revenue laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus (Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 188-189, no. 3.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p. 224, no. 89.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xviii, no. 597 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 384.
L. Criscuolo, ‘Ricerche sul Komogrammateus nell'Egitto tolemaico’, Aegyptus 58 (1978), pp. 3-101 (p. 11; p. 42, n. 4; pp. 77, 80).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)