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Papyrus 640
- Record Id:
- 040-002105024
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000302
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129085.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 640
- Title:
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Third Will of Dryton (P.Dryton 3, P.Grenf. I 44, P.Lond. III 640 descr., TM 268)
- Scope & Content:
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A fragment of a copy of the second will of Dryton, drawn up in the office of the notary in Pathyris. The names of some witnesses are preserved here. Further portions of this papyrus are BL Papyrus 687A and Papyrus 687E, which contain parts of the first column, and a papyrus in the Sorbonne, Paris (P.Bouriant 46), which is the continuation of Papyrus 640.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105024 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 640 : Third Will of Dryton (P.Dryton 3, P.Grenf. I 44, P.Lond. III 640 descr., TM 268) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0752]/040-002105024
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a papyrus, further portions of which are Papyrus 687A, Papyrus 687E and a papyrus in Paris, Sorbonne, inventoried as P. Bouriant 46. This fragment, defaced in places, is broken off at the top, left and bottom; it bears writing on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Parts of two columns remain, with little blank space between them; no margin was left to the right. This fragment joins with the one in Paris, which is the continuation and completes the second column. Papyrus 687A contains the upper part of column 1, and papyrus 687E the foot of column 1.
The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0126
- End Date:
- -0126
- Date Range:
- 29 June 126 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 87 x 141 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 140 x 195 mm.
Script: Practised upright hand, irregular as to the size of letters and with some sequences written more cursively; presumably hand of Areius.
- 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.Dryton 3
P.Grenf. I 44
P.Lond. III 640 descr.
Pap.Lugd.Bat. XIX 4 - 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. 75-76, no. 44.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxii, no. 640 descr.
H. Kreller, Erbrechtliche Untersuchungen auf Grund der graeco-aegyptischen Papyrusurkunden (Leipzig-Berlin: B. G. Teubner 1919), p. 345 and passim.
P. W. Pestman ‘A proposito dei documenti di Pathyris I’, Aegyptus 43 (1963), pp. 10-14 (p. 12).
E. Boswinkel, P. W. Pestman, Textes grecs, démotiques et bilingues (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XIX) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1978), no. 4.
P. W. Pestman, ‘Agoranomoi et actes agoranomiques’, in P. W. Pestman (ed.), Textes et études de papyrologie grecque, démotique et copte (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXIII) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1985), p. 16.
P. W. Pestman, The New Papyrological Primer (Leiden: E. J. Brill 19942), p. 57.
J. Mélèze-Modrzejewski, ‘Dryton le crétois et sa famille ou les mariages mixtes dans l'Égypte hellénistique’, in H. van Effenterre (ed.), Aux Origines de l'Hellénisme. La Crète et la Grèce. Hommage à Henri van Effenterre, présenté par le Centre G. Glotz (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1984), pp. 353-377 (p. 375).
S. B. Pomeroy, Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra (Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1990), pp. 105-106 and passim.
P. W. Pestman, ‘Agoranomoi et actes agoranomiques’, in P. W. Pestman (ed.), Textes et études de papyrologie grecque, démotique et copte (Pap. Lugd. Bat. XXIII) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1985), p. 28.
W. Clarysse, ‘Ptolemaic Wills’, in M. J. Geller, H. Maehler et al. (eds.), Legal documents of the Hellenistic world : papers from a seminar arranged by the Institute of Classical Studies, the Institute of Jewish Studies and the Warburg Institute, University of London, February to May 1986 (London: Warburg Institute, University of London 1995), pp. 88-105.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 195).
K. Vandorpe, The bilingual family archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia and their daughter Senmouthis (P. Dryton) (Brussel: Het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2002), pp. 69-78, no. 3.
M. Nowak, ‘Dryton’s Wills Reconsidered’, Revue Internationale des droits de l’Antiquité 59 (2012) pp. 241-251 (pp. 244, 248-250).
J. G. Keenan, J. G. Manning, U. Yiftach-Firanko (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 105-107, no. 3.1.2.
M. Nowak, Wills in the Roman Empire. A Documentary Approach. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement 23 (2015), pp. 261-263, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)