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Papyrus 656
- Record Id:
- 040-002105041
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000312
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129241.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 656
- Title:
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Official Order to Pay (P.Grenf. II 23, Chrest.Wilck. 159, P.Lond. III 656 descr., TM 270)
- Scope & Content:
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Official letters concerning the order to pay 34 talents and 100 artabas of wheat to two boats hauling grain.
Lines 1-8: Order to Demetrius from Hermias, who instructs him to pay 34 talents from the bank of Pathyris, and encloses previous letters.
Lines 9-16: Letter of Hermonax to Hermias, ordering the payment of 34 talents and 100 artabas of wheat and enclosing the order of the chief financial official (dioecetes) Ptolemaeus. Dated to 21 April 108 BC.
Lines 17-21: Letter of Ptolemaeus to Hermonax, with the order to pay 8 talents, 3000 drachmas and 25 artabas of wheat per month to the boats expediting grain. Dated to 10 January 108 BC.
Lines 22-end: Subscriptions.
With docket in Greek and Demotic on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105041 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 656 : Official Order to Pay (P.Grenf. II 23, Chrest.Wilck. 159, P.Lond. III 656 descr., TM 270) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0988]/040-002105041
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, with light-coloured patches and dark spots at the top, complete but damaged by holes. Writing runs along the fibres on both sides, the back bearing one line with Greek and Demotic. On the front there is one column. All margins are extant, the right being minimal. A sheet-join runs along the height of the sheet at 105-110 mm from the left edge; a small strip of vertical fibres is visible in the lower half of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143129241.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Egyptian (Ancient)
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Egyptian demotic
Greek - Start Date:
- -0108
- End Date:
- -0108
- Date Range:
- 1 June 108 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 310 x 212 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 340 x 180 mm.
Script: Thin, small cursive hand, with some elongated and hooked strokes; the subscriptions at the end are rougher and more cursive. Verso with Greek and Demotic text: Greek text: Thin, large, upright hand, with detached letters, mostly bilinear.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Latopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 654-666 by Edwyn Robert Bevan (b. 1870, d. 1943) in July 1896.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 159
P.Grenf. II 23
P.Lond. III 656 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. 529.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 40-42, no. 23.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxiii, no. 656 descr.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 190-191, no. 159.
W. Spiegelberg, ‘Demotische Miszellen’, Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 53 (1917), p. 123 no. 6.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 71.
J. Vélissaropoulos, Les Nauclères grecs : recherches sur les institutions maritimes en Grèce et dans l'Orient hellénise (Paris: Minard 1980), p. 53, n. 234; p. 283, with n. 66; p. 291, n. 106; p. 354.
P. Verdult, P. Erasmianae II, Parts of the Archive of an Arsinoite Sitologos from the Middle of the Second Century BC. Studia Amstelodamensia ad Epigraphicam, Ius Antiquum et Papyrologicam Pertinentia 32 (Amsterdam: Gieben 1991), pp. 149-150.
S. Vinson, ‘P.Grenf. II 23: A New Edition’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 121 (1998), pp. 197–202.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 86.
R. Eberhard (ed.), ‘...vor dem Papyrus sind alle gleich!’. Papyrologische Beiträge zu Ehren von Bärbel Kramer (Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter 2009), pp. 17-19.
Ch. Armoni, Studien zur Verwaltung des Ptolemäischen Ägypten: Das Amt des Basilikos Grammateus. Papyrologica Coloniensia 36 (Padeborn: Schôningh 2012), ppp. 43, 75-76.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 104.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)