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Papyrus 608
- Record Id:
- 040-002104992
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002c2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128748.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 608
- Title:
- Letter concerning a Petition (P.Grenf. I 13, P.Lond. III 608 descr., TM 249)
- Scope & Content:
-
Portion of a letter from an official to Ptolemaeus, son of Pyrrhus, concerning a petition submitted by the royal farmers. With date at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104992 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 608 : Letter concerning a Petition (P.Grenf. I 13, P.Lond. III 608 descr., TM 249) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0979]/040-002104992
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragment of a light-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the left and with minor surface damage in the preserved portion. Writing runs across the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are 6 lines lacking the beginnings; upper, right and lower margins are extant. Folding lines are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128748.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0152
- End Date:
- -0141
- Date Range:
- 13 March 152 BC or 10 March 141
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 93 x 114 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 145 x 170 mm.
Script: Neat and carefully executed hand, with some more cursive sequences of letters.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Krokodilopolis, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 605-649 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 9 November 1895.
- Former External References:
- P.Grenf. I 13
P.Lond. III 608 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), p. 521.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian Erotic Fragment and Other Greek Papyri Chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 32-33, no. 13.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xix, no. 608 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 180.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 69.
Mooren, The Aulic Titulature in Ptolemaic Egypt: Introduction and Prosopography (Brussels: Paleis der Academiën 1975) no. 070.
J. D. Sosin, ‘Abduction at the Threshing Floor: P.Duk.inv. 714-716’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 127 (1999), pp. 131-140 (p. 135, n. 23).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)