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Papyrus 628
- Record Id:
- 040-002105012
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002f6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469211.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 628
- Title:
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Letter from the Archive of Pates and Pachrates (SB XXIV 16069, SB XX 14730, C.Jud.Syr.Eg. 4, P.Grenf. I 32, P.Lond. III 628 descr., TM 161)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter from various military officers to various recipients, among whom are Poeris, son of Nechoutes, and presumably Pachrates, requesting the release of at least two individuals.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105012 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 628 : Letter from the Archive of Pates and Pachrates (SB XXIV 16069, SB XX 14730, C.Jud.Syr.Eg. 4, P.Grenf. I 32, P.Lond. III 628 descr.,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1144]/040-002105012
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragmentary papyrus sheet, lacking most of the upper half and broken along the folds; writing runs across the fibres on one side, the back being blank. Portions of 10 lines survive; lines 1-4 are badly mutilated, with a loss of c. 70 letters to the right. The lower margin is extant; a sheet-join runs along the fibres at the bottom. A fragment in Cairo, inventoried as P.Cair. inv. 10373, preserves portions of the first 4 lines. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469211.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0102
- End Date:
- -0102
- Date Range:
- 17 April 102 BC
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 172 x 338 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 220 x 385 mm.
Script: Medium-sized cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pelousion (Tell el-Farama), 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. 4
P.Grenf. I 32
P.Lond. III 628 descr.
SB XX 14730
SB XXIV 16069 - 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. 525.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian erotic fragment and other Greek papyri chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 61-62, no. 32.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxi, no. 628 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 181.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 37.
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. 61-65, no. 4, with pl. 8.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1997), p. 499, no. 14730.
A. Martin, G. Nachtergael, ‘Papyrus du Musée du Caire. II’, Chronique d‘Égypte 73 (1998), pp. 99-115 (p. 110, no. 6).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XXIV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2003), pp. 185-186, no. 16069.
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.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 228.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)