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Papyrus 641
- Record Id:
- 040-002105025
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000303
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129112.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 641
- Title:
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Account (P.Dryton 39, P.Lond. III 641 descr., TM 269)
- Scope & Content:
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A fragmentary account, recording expenses or receipts of sums of money for the purchase or sale of various items, such as an Egyptian bed, sealed alabasters jars, and a sword. The localities and the agents and individuals with whom the businesses were made are also recorded. The account continues for two lines on the other side.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105025 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 641 : Account (P.Dryton 39, P.Lond. III 641 descr., TM 269) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0749]/040-002105025
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragmentary papyrus sheet, lacking most of its left portion; the verso is dark brown. The text was written on the verso across the fibres, and continued with two lines along the fibres on the recto. The rest of the recto remained blank. On the verso there are 28 fragmentary lines. Papyrus 686e contains a few more letters of lines 21-23.
The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143129112.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0137
- End Date:
- -0136
- Date Range:
- 137-136 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus:
Dimensions: 316 x 133 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 370 x 205 mm.
Script: Rough, small, upright cursive hand; hand of Dryton.
- 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 39
P.Lond. III 641 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. 527.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxii, no. 641 descr.
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. 317-321, no. 39.
Ch. Fischer-Bovet, Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 277, 288.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)