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Papyrus 2479
- Record Id:
- 040-002105513
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00019f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467848.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2479
- Title:
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Private Letter (P.Oxy. XIV 1666, TM 31777)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of Pausanias to Heraclides about various matters. Pausanias explains that as his son, enrolled in a legion, prefers to serve in the cavalry, he went to Alexandria to ask that his son be transferred. He then promises to visit the recipient, asks him to see to the preparation of a deed of mortgage, and inquires about his health, given that there had been an outbreak of plague in his neighbourhood. Greetings were added in the left margin; the address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105513 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2479 : Private Letter (P.Oxy. XIV 1666, TM 31777) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1317]/040-002105513
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Square-shaped papyrus sheet, pale brown, complete but damaged by insect holes, especially at the bottom left; written on both sides along the fibres, the back bearing two lines in the upper half of the sheet and modern annotations. On the front, there are 22 lines, the last of which are mutilated at the beginning; 3 additional lines were written across the fibres along the left margin. The margins are minimal. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467848.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 172 x 196 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 225 x 250 mm.
Script: Thin cursive hand, slanting to the right, displaying a tendency to become more compressed and smaller towards the end.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2435-2485 by the Egypt Exploration Society on 18 July 1922.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. XIV 1666
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 366.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part XIV (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1920), pp. 121-123, no. 1666.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 358-361, no. 149.
S. Daris, Documenti per la storia dell'esercito romano in Egitto (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1964), no. 8.
G. Tibiletti, Le lettere private nei papiri greci del III e IV secolo d.C.: tra paganesimo e cristianesimo (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1979), no. 3.
G. Casanova, ‘Epidemie e fame nella documentazione greca d'Egitto’, Aegyptus 64 (1984) pp. 163-201 (pp. 165, 168, 173-174).
L. Migliardi Zingale, Vita privata e vita pubblica nei papiri d'Egitto: silloge di documenti greci e latini dal I al IV secolo d.C. (Torino: Giappichelli 1992), pp. 162-163, no. 93 = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 151.
J. B. Campbell, The Roman Army, 31 BC-AD 337: A Sourcebook (London: Routledge 1993), pp. 35-36, no. 48.
P. Schubert, Vivre en Égypte greco-romaine: une selection de papyrus (Vevey: Editions de l'Aire 2000), pp. 98-101, no. 21.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 141.
S. Waebens, ‘Ares: Brother, Commander, Deity or Son? A New Interpretation of the Ares Tombstone’, Chronique d'Égypte 87 (2012), pp. 322-339 (pp. 335-336).
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), p. 23.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)