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Papyrus 718
- Record Id:
- 040-002105105
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003b0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462850.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 718
- Title:
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Petition to the Praeses (P.Nekr. 38, P.Grenf. II 78, Chrest.Mitt. 63, TM 22634)
- Scope & Content:
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A petition to Satrius Arrianus from Syrus, son of Petechon, funerary worker (nekrotaphos), who reports that his wife Tseke and their children, although they are freeborn, have been imprisoned by another family of funerary workers. When he tried to free them, Syrus was beaten. He now asks that his children be released. With subscription at the end; the name of the scribe who wrote on behalf of Syrus is lost.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105105 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 718 : Petition to the Praeses (P.Nekr. 38, P.Grenf. II 78, Chrest.Mitt. 63, TM 22634) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0412]/040-002105105
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of varying size from a papyrus sheet, written on one side along the fibres; one of this remain unplaced and is in a different hand. Further fragments of the same sheet are housed in the Sackler Library, Oxford, and contain the beginnings of lines 14-16, 20-21 and 23-36. The margins are 20 mm at the left, 15 at the top, 55 at the bottom, and less than 5 at the right. The back is blank. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0307
- End Date:
- 0307
- Date Range:
- February-March 307
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 251 x 132 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 310 x 180 mm.
Script: Experienced cursive hand, with a slant to the right; second hand for the subscription from line 33, less rapid, yet practised.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hibis or Kysis, 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.Mitt. 63
P.Grenf. II 78
P.Lond. III 718 descr.
P.Nekr. 38 - 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. 123-125, no. 78.
Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde IV (Leipzig: Verlag von Eduard Avenarius 1905), pp. 89-90.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxviii, no. 718.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 70-71, no. 63.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 191.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 71.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 35.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 143.
R. S. Bagnall, ‘A Mandate from the Great Oasis’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 116 (1997), pp. 149-151 (pp. 149, 151).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 87.
A. Z. Bryen, ‘Visibility and Violence in Petitions from Roman Egypt’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 48 (2008), pp. 181-200 (p. 187).
A. Z. Bryen, Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press 2013), p. 258, no. 97.
R. S. Bagnall, The Undertakers of the Great Oasis (P.Nekr.) (London: Egypt Exploration Society 2017), pp. 108-111, no. 38.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)