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Papyrus 626
- Record Id:
- 040-002105010
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002f4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100120697208.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 626
- Title:
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Letter from the Archive of Pates and Pachrates (SB XX 14728, C.Jud.Syr.Eg. 1, P.Grenf. I 30+P.Amh. II 39, P.Lond. III 626 descr., TM 164)
- Scope & Content:
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Conclusion of a letter of the commander Portis and the youths of the unit to Pates, Pachrates and the other soldiers, with reference to the strife against the inhabitans of Hermonthis, the appointment of a prostates of the god Nechtpharaus, and with some instructions. The beginning is preserved in a papyrus at the Pierpont Morgan Library, inventoried as P. Gr. 39, which bears the address on the back as well.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105010 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 626 : Letter from the Archive of Pates and Pachrates (SB XX 14728, C.Jud.Syr.Eg. 1, P.Grenf. I 30+P.Amh. II 39, P.Lond. III 626 descr., TM 164) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1143]/040-002105010
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Lower portion of a papyrus sheet, the upper part of which is in New York, at the Pierpont Morgan Library, inventoried as P. Gr. 39; damaged along the folds and bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. There are 11 lines from the foot of a column, the first two mutilated, written along the fibres. Lower and side margins are extant. The Pierpont Morgan Library papyrus preserves the first ten lines of the column, and the address on the back, written with the fibres. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100120697208.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0103
- End Date:
- -0103
- Date Range:
- 29 June 103 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 169 x 150 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 225 x 205 mm.
Script: Thin cursive hand, rich in ligatures. Same hand as SB XX 14729 (cf. BL X 231).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: 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:
- C.Jud.Syr.Eg. 1
P.Grenf. I 30 + P.Amh. II 39
P.Lond. III 626 descr.
SB XX 14728 - 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. 524.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian erotic fragment and other Greek papyri chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 59-60, no. 30.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, The Amherst papyri: being an account of the Greek papyri in the collection of Lord Amherst of Hackney (London: H. Frowde 1901), pp. 47-48, no. 39, with pl. vii.
S. de Ricci, ‘Papyrus de Pathyris an musée du Louvre’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 2 (1903), pp. 515-520 (p. 516).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxi, no. 626 descr.
J. Lesquier, Les institutions militaires de l'Égypte sous les Lagides (Paris: E. Leroux 1911), pp. 42, 160 and passim.
S. Witkowski, Epistulae privatae Graecae quae in papyris aetatis Lagidarum servantur (Lipsiae: Teubner 1911), no. 57.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 181.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 34.
E. Van't Dack, W. Clarysse, J. Quaegebeur, J. K. Winnicki, The Judean-Syrian-Egyptian conflict of 103-101 B.C: a multilingual dossier concerning a "war of sceptres” (Collectanea Hellenistica 1) (Brussel: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie 1989), pp. 39-49, no. 1, with pll. 1-3.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 4.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1997), pp. 498-499, no. 14728.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 231.
K. Vandorpe, S. Waebens, Reconstructing Pathyris’ Archives. A Multicultural Community in Hellenistic Egypt (CollectaneaHellenistica 3) (Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie & l'Union Academique Internationale 2009), pp. 98-99, no. 34b.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)