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Papyrus 631
- Record Id:
- 040-002105015
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002f9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469216.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 631
- Title:
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Fragment of a Letter (SB XX 14731, P.Grenf. I 35, C.Jud.Syr.Eg. 7, P.Lond. III 631 descr., TM 158)
- Scope & Content:
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Conclusion of a letter with reference to the delivery of the monthly amount of grain assigned to the senders. The names of the correspondents are lost; the senders are writing from Ptolemais.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105015 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 631 : Fragment of a Letter (SB XX 14731, P.Grenf. I 35, C.Jud.Syr.Eg. 7, P.Lond. III 631 descr., TM 158) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1142]/040-002105015
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Lower portion of a papyrus sheet of coarse quality, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The text breaks off at the top; 9 lines survive, the last of which is indented. The right margin is minimal and irregular, the lower margin is extant, and the left margin is partly preserved. A sheet-join runs from top to bottom at c. 25 mm from the right edge. Vertical folds are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469216.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0105
- End Date:
- -0105
- Date Range:
- 25 September 105 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 95 x 105 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 145 x 155 mm.
Script: Thin cursive hand with many ligatures; lines tend to incline upwards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Ptolemais (cf. BL X).
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. 7
P.Grenf. I 35
P.Lond. III 631 descr.
SB XX 14731 - 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. 66-67, no. 35.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxi, no. 631 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 181.
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. 75-77, no. 7.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1997), p. 500, no. 14731.
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 (Collectanea Hellenistica 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)