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Papyrus 635
- Record Id:
- 040-002105019
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002fd
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469222.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 635
- Title:
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Accounts (P.Grenf. I 39, P.Lond. III 635 descr., TM 263)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto: Account of waggon-loads of barley for year 12 of an unnamed king.
Verso: Account headed Phamenoth 5, with a list of names, among whom are dyers (column 1), and a record of the expenditures (column 2). With traces of another column to the left.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105019 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 635 : Accounts (P.Grenf. I 39, P.Lond. III 635 descr., TM 263) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1127]/040-002105019
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus fragment, broken off to the right (front), damaged by holes at the bottom and in the left-hand margin; written on both sides. The front bears two columns written along the fibres; of the second, only the beginnings of the lines survive; the first column is complete. The intercolumn measures 30 mm and the left margin 50-55 mm. A sheet-join runs along the right edge. On the back, there are two columns and traces of another column to the left, written across the fibres; the first is abraded at the bottom and consists of 19 lines; the second has 5 lines. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469222.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0193
- End Date:
- -0169
- Date Range:
- 18 June 193 BC, 180 BC or 12 June 169 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 139 x 151 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 195 x 200 mm.
Script: Upright, clear, thin semi-cursive, exhibiting some serifs.
- 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.Grenf. I 39
P.Lond. III 635 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), p. 526.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian erotic fragment and other Greek papyri chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 70-72, no. 39.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxi, no. 635 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 182.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 70.
T. C. Skeat, ‘Notes on Ptolemaic Chronology: II. 'The Twelfth Year Which Is Also the First': The Invasion of Egypt by Antiochus Epiphanes’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 47 (1961), pp. 107-112 (p. 108).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 80.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)