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Papyrus 636
- Record Id:
- 040-002105020
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002fe
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469229.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 636
- Title:
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Official Letter (P.Grenf. I 40, Chrest.Mitt. 25, P.Lond. III 636 descr., TM 264)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragmentary letter of Didymus, clerck of the panel of Greek judges (chrematistai) to Antipater, mentioning Nechthminis and instructing the recipient to report to the other priests. The document concerns a dispute over land between the priests of Pathyris and those of Hermonthis. With traces of the docket and address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105020 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 636 : Official Letter (P.Grenf. I 40, Chrest.Mitt. 25, P.Lond. III 636 descr., TM 264) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1126]/040-002105020
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of a papyrus sheet, lacking most of its right-hand side and a strip in the middle, and damaged by few holes in the preserved portion. The front bears 8 lines, with a gap between lines 3 and 4; of line 4 only few traces remain; lines 1-3 and 5-6 lack the ends. The ends of lines 2 and 3 are preserved by a papyrus in Heidelberg inventoried as P.G. 1304. The writing on the back runs along the fibres and is the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469229.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0199
- End Date:
- -0150
- Date Range:
- 1st half of 2nd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: upper fragment: 65 x 33 mm; lower fragment:: 102 x 259 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 245 x 305 mm.
Script: Large, thin, regular and neat upright hand, exhibiting serifs and ligatures in places.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Ptolemais Hermeiou (El-Mansha) 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:
- Chrest.Mitt. 25
P.Grenf. I 40
P.Lond. III 636 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. 72-73, no. 40.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxii, no. 636 descr.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 21, no. 25.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 182.
Prosopographia Ptolemaica, III: Le clergé, le notariat, les tribunaux (Louvain: Lovanii Bibliotheca Universitatis 1952), p. 152, nos. 6400-6401.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 62.
K. Vandorpe, ‘Museum Archaeology or How to Reconstruct Pathyris Archives’, Egitto e Vicino Oriente 17, ACTA DEMOTICA: Acts of Fifth International Conference for Demotists: Pisa, 4th-8th September 1993 (1994), pp. 289-300 (p. 298).
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. 100-101, §35.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 80.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), p. 197.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)