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Papyrus 611
- Record Id:
- 040-002104995
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002c5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128774.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 611
- Title:
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Draft Petition (P.Dryton 33bis, P.Grenf. I 15, P.Lond. III 611a descr, TM 252), and Accounts (P.Dryton 40, P.Grenf. I 16, P.Lond. III 611b descr., TM 283; P.Dryton 41, P.Lond. III 611verso descr., TM 503)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto:
Text written along the fibres (P.Dryton 33bis, P.Grenf. I 15, P.Lond. III 611a descr, TM 252): A draft or copy of the same petition as Papyrus 612 (P.Dryton 33) in a different hand. Papyrus 611 preserves the end. Apollonia alias Semmonthis, Ammonia alias Senminis, Heracleia alias Senapathis and Herais alias Tasris, daughters of Ptolemaeus, complain that some property they had inherited from their father was illegally occupied by their relative Callimedes alias Patous and his family. The petitioners ask that the case be handled by a certain Santobithys. Dated to 10 June 136 BC.
Text written across the fibres (P.Dryton 40, P.Grenf. I 16, P.Lond. III 611b descr., TM 283): A private account of Dryton recording the expenses for taxes and rents. Payments are stated in artabas of wheat and barley and in drachmas. Dated between 22 August and 20 September 135 BC.
Verso (P.Dryton 41, P.Lond. III 611verso descr., TM 503): A private account of Apollonia, Dryton’s wife, written by Dryton, recording wheat and other articles that she has received, all converted to wheat. Dated to 10 September 135 BC.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104995 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 611 : Draft Petition (P.Dryton 33bis, P.Grenf. I 15, P.Lond. III 611a descr, TM 252), and Accounts (P.Dryton 40, P.Grenf. I 16, P.Lond.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0745]/040-002104995
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a papyrus sheet of poor quality, broken off at the top and left and damaged at the bottom, especially along the vertical folds. The sheet lacks some horizontal fibres on the recto. Writing is on both sides: the recto has an original text, of which only the bottom right portion survives, written along the fibres; the original lower margin of the sheet, measuring 70 mm, hosts a second text, written across the fibres at the right angle to the first. The verso contains a third text, written across the fibres and complete. The side margins are minimal, the upper and lower measure 19 mm. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0136
- End Date:
- -0135
- Date Range:
- 136-135 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 152 x 113; housed in a glass case measuring 205 x 165 mm.
Script: Recto: A: Irregular upright hand, with a tendency to become more cursive and careless toward the end. B: Rapid cursive, with irregular letter size; hand of Dryton. Verso: Irregular upright cursive hand, somewhat compressed laterally; hand of Dryton.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pathyris (Gebelein), 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:
- P.Dryton 33bis
P.Dryton 40
P.Dryton 41
P.Grenf. I 15
P.Grenf. I 16
P.Lond. III 611a descr.
P.Lond. III 611b descr.
P.Lond. III 611verso descr.
SB I 4638 - 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. 521-522.
- A:
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian erotic fragment and other Greek papyri chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), p. 35, no. 15.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xix, no. 611a descr.
G. A. Gerhard, Ein gräko-ägyptischer Erbstreit aus dem zweiten Jahrhundert von Chr. (Heidelberg: Winter 1911)
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner 1915), pp. pp. 399-400, no. 4638.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 171.
P. W. Pestman, ‘A proposito dei documenti di Pathyris II Πέρσαι τῆς ἐπιγονῆς’, Aegyptus 43 (1963), pp. 15-53 (pp. 33-35, and passim).
A. Di Bitonto, ‘Le petizioni ai funzionari nel periodo tolemaico: studio sul formulario’, Aegyptus 48 (1968), pp. 53-107 (pp. 56, 64 and passim).
S. B. Pomeroy, Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra (Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1990), p. 117.
J. Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), pp. 108-109, no. 85.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 311.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), pp. 239-240.
C. A. Ca’Lada, ‘Immigrant Women in Hellenistic Egypt’, in H. Melaerts, L. Mooren, Le rôle et le statut de la femme en Égypte hellénistique, romaine et byzantine: actes du colloque international, Bruxelles-Leuven 27-29 novembre 1997 (Leuven: Peeters 2002), pp. 167-192 (p. 188 and passim).
K. Vandorpe, The bilingual family archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia and their daughter Senmouthis (P. Dryton) (Brussel: Het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2002), pp. 251-258, no. 33bis.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 195.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 65.
K. Vandorpe, A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (Chichester, West Sussex-Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell 2010), pp. 344, 398.
- B:
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian erotic fragment and other Greek papyri chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 35-36, no. 16.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xx, no. 611b descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 180.
K. Vandorpe, The bilingual family archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia and their daughter Senmouthis (P. Dryton) (Brussel: Het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2002), pp. 323-326, no. 40.
- Verso:
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xx, no. 611verso descr.
K. Vandorpe, The bilingual family archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia and their daughter Senmouthis (P. Dryton) (Brussel: Het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2002), pp. 327-330, no. 41.
M. Vierros, ‘Greek or Egyptian? The Language Choice in Ptolemaic Documents from Pathyris’, in A. Delattre, P.Heilporn (eds.), Et maintenant ce ne sont plus que des villages: Thèbes et sa région aux époques hellénistiques, romaine et byzantine. Actes du colloque tenu à Bruxelles, déc. 2005 (Bruxelles: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth 2008), pp. 73-86 (p. 80).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)