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Papyrus 638
- Record Id:
- 040-002105022
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000300
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469235.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 638
- Title:
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Petition of Soldiers (P.Grenf. I 42, Chrest.Wilck. 447, P.Lond. III 638 descr., TM 266)
- Scope & Content:
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The cavalry soldiers at Diospolis Parva petition Hieronymus, chief of the bodyguards and strategus, complaining about the pay they received, inferior to those of other soldiers, despite their devotion.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105022 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 638 : Petition of Soldiers (P.Grenf. I 42, Chrest.Wilck. 447, P.Lond. III 638 descr., TM 266) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1124]/040-002105022
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragment of a papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom and left, and with damage in the preserved portion; writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are portions of 20 lines, all lacking the beginnings. The right margin is irregular. A sheet-join runs along the height of the sheet in the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469235.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0169
- End Date:
- -0168
- Date Range:
- 169-168 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 174 x 118 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 165 mm.
Script: Regular and neat upright cursive hand of small size, with a tendency for lines to incline upwards; one interlinear addition.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Diospolis Parva (Hiou), Egypt.
Provenance: 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.Wilck. 447
P.Grenf. I 42
P.Lond. III 638 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. 73-45, no. 42.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxii, no. 638 descr.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 527-528, no. 447.
G. T. Griffith, The Mercenaries of the Hellenistic World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1935), pp. 132, 281.
L. Mooren, ‘The Governors General of the Thebaid in the Second Century B.C. (II)’, Ancient Society 5 (1974), pp. 137-152.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 45.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 62.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)