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Papyrus 637
- Record Id:
- 040-002105021
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002ff
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129069.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 637
- Title:
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Note on a Payment (P.Grenf. I 41, P.Lond. III 637 descr., TM 265)
- Scope & Content:
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Short letter to an unnamed recipient from Peteuris, who states that he will pay fifteen talents as a reward.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105021 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 637 : Note on a Payment (P.Grenf. I 41, P.Lond. III 637 descr., TM 265) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0974]/040-002105021
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Small papyrus sheet, complete, with minor surface damage in places; writing runs across the fibres on the front; the back has a dark spot. The front bears six complete lines; all margins are extant. A sheet-join running along the width of the sheet is visible at 10-20 mm from the bottom. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143129069.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0199
- End Date:
- -0100
- Date Range:
- 2nd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 101 x 97 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 155 x 140 mm.
Script: Large, upright hand, with some ligatured letters.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Upper 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 41
P.Lond. III 637 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. 69-70, no. 41.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxii, no. 637 descr.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 2 (1903), pp. 578-579.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 182.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, K. A. Worp, ‘Six Papyri from the Museum of Antiquities at Cairo’, Studia Papyrologica 16 (1977), pp. 13-21 (pp. 14-15).
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), p. 191, no. 49.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)