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Papyrus 717
- Record Id:
- 040-002105104
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003af
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462837.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 717
- Title:
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Letter about Funeral Expenses (P.Nekr. 18, P.Grenf. II 77, Chrest.Wilck. 498, P.Lond. III 717 descr., TM 22633)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter to Sarapion and Silvanus from Melas, who complains about their behaviour and claims some funerary expenses: instead of collecting the body of their brother Phibion, taken there by a funerary worker (nekrotaphos), and of paying for the funeral expenses, they just took the possessions of the deceased and departed. Melas lists the expenses, which amount to 520 drachmas. The docket is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105104 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 717 : Letter about Funeral Expenses (P.Nekr. 18, P.Grenf. II 77, Chrest.Wilck. 498, P.Lond. III 717 descr., TM 22633) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0411]/040-002105104
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, damaged throughout, especially in the left half; writing is on both sides along the fibres, the back bearing the docket; on the front, three lines were written perpendicularly to the main text, from top to bottom of the left margin. Vertical and horizontal folds are visible. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462837.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0260
- End Date:
- 0275
- Date Range:
- 260-275
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 228 x 104 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 280 x 160 mm.
Script: Ungainly cursive hand, sloping to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oasis Magna (El-Kharga), Western Desert, Egypt.
Provenance: Kysis (Dush), Western Desert, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 688-731 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 14 November 1896.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 498
P.Grenf. II 77
P.Lond. III 717 descr.
P.Nekr. 18
Sel.Pap. I 157 - 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. 540.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 121-123, no. 77.
Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde IV (Leipzig: Verlag von Eduard Avenarius 1905), p. 89.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxviii, no. 717.
G. Milligan, Selections from the Greek Papyri (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1910, repr. 1912, 1927), pp. 119-122, no. 50.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 576-577, no. 498.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 191.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 372-375, no. 157.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 187.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 35.
H. Cadell, R. Rémondon, ‘Sens et emplois de τὸ ὄρος dans les documents papyrologiques’, Revue des Études Grecques (1967), pp. 343-349 (p. 344).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 87.
R. Burnet, L' Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus: vie quotidienne (Paris: Pygmalion 2003), pp. 281-282, no. 220.
W. Clarysse, ‘Departure without Saying Goodbye: A Lexicographical Study’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011), pp. 141-148 (p. 145).
R. S. Bagnall, The Undertakers of the Great Oasis (P.Nekr.) (London: Egypt Exploration Society 2017), pp. 63-66, no. 18.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), p. 315.
Th. Söding, P. Wick, Würde und Last der Arbeit: Beiträge zur neutestamentlichen Sozialethik (Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer 2017), p. 95.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)