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Papyrus 606
- Record Id:
- 040-002104990
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002a0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469200.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 606
- Title:
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Documents concerning a Dispute (P.Grenf. I 11, P.Lond. III 606 descr., TM 247)
- Scope & Content:
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Dossier of documents relating to a dispute over some land located in the Pathyrite nome, claimed by a certain Panas; the copy of an earlier ruling by Pechutes, who instructed Daemachus to publish his judgment, is enclosed.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104990 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 606 : Documents concerning a Dispute (P.Grenf. I 11, P.Lond. III 606 descr., TM 247) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1122]/040-002104990
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of a papyrus roll, another portion of which is preserved in a papyrus of the collection in Heidelberg, inventoried as P. G. 1288; broken off to the left and damaged at the bottom and along the vertical folds.Two columns survive, the first lacking the right-hand half, and the second almost complete. Right, upper and lower margins measure 45-60 mm, 30 mm, and 45-60 mm respectively. The intercolumn measures 13-30 mm. There are two lines, rubbed off, in the lower right corner. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469200.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0181
- End Date:
- -0181
- Date Range:
- after 27 August 181 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 299 x 407 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 360 x 445 mm.
Script: Large and neat official hand, thin and upright.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis, Pathyrite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 605-650 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 9 November 1895.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 32
P.Grenf. I 11
P.Lond. III 606 descr. - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), pp. 520-521.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian erotic fragment and other Greek papyri chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 25-29, no. 11.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xix, no. 606 descr.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 39-42, no. 32.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 178-179.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 71.
W. Peremans, E. Van 't Dack, ‘P. Grenfell I, 11 (= Mitteis, Chrestom. 32)’, Revue internationale des droits de l'Antiquité 1 (1948), pp. 163-172.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 69.
T. C. Skeat, ‘Notes on Ptolemaic Chronology: IV. The 16th Year of Ptolemy Philopator as a Terminus ad quem’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 59 (1973), pp. 169-174.
J. David Thomas, The epistrategos in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: The Ptolemaic epistrategos (Opladen: Westdt. Verl., 1975), pp. 34, 68-69, and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 45.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 62.
R. Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri III.1 (Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann 1990), pp. 390-391, no. 5, with pl. 103.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 140.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 95.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 213).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Daemachus, strategus of the Pathyrite nome, 2nd century BC
Panas, 2nd century BC
Pechutes, official in the Pathyrite nome, 2nd century BC - Places:
- Krokodilopolis, Pathyrite nome, Egypt
Pathyris, Egypt - Related Material:
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The papyrus may belong to the Archive of Dryton, Apollonia and Descendants (TM Arch ID 74). Another fragment of the same papyrus is a papyrus in Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie, inventoried as P. G 1288. Another Heidelberg papyrus, inventoried as P. G. 1277, is a duplicate.