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Papyrus 634
- Record Id:
- 040-002105018
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002fc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129050.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 634
- Title:
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Petition on a Case of Assault (P.Grenf. I 38, P.Lond. III 634 descr.,TM 262)
- Scope & Content:
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Petition to Numenius, strategus and chief of the bodyguards (archisomatophylax), from Pocas, a police official, who complains about an assault of which he was the victim, perpetrated by a priest of the temple of Suchus in Krokodilopolis in the Pathyrite nome. He asks that the offender be summoned.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105018 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 634 : Petition on a Case of Assault (P.Grenf. I 38, P.Lond. III 634 descr.,TM 262) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1428]/040-002105018
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, almost complete but heavily damaged by holes located along the folds, especially in the lower half and at the top. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are 21 lines, which occupy slightly more than half of the sheet. The blank space at the bottom measures 135 mm. There is a sheet-join running along the height of the sheet at c. 20 mm from the left edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143129050.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0170
- End Date:
- -0170
- Date Range:
- 30 September 170 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 318 x 137 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 370 x 190 mm.
Script: Uright, large hand, mostly bilinear and with very few ligatures; paragraphus and dots between letters occur.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: 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.Grenf. I 38
P.Lond. III 634 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), pp. 525-526.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian Erotic Fragment and Other Greek Papyri Chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 69-70, no. 37.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxi, no. 634 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 182.
Henne Henri, ‘Sur la titulature aulique des stratèges de nomes à l'époque ptolémaïque’, Revue des Études Anciennes 42 (1940), pp. 172-186 (p. 175).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 70.
J. David Thomas, The epistrategos in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: The Ptolemaic epistrategos (Opladen: Westdt. Verl., 1975), pp. 35-36.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), p. 339.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)