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Papyrus 2487
- Record Id:
- 040-002105522
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001a7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124745.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2487
- Title:
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Letter from the Archive of Paieous (P.Lond. VI 1914, TM 16852)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter to Paieous and Patabeit, priests of the monastery of Phathor, from Callistus, who is reporting on events that took place in Alexandria and concerned the Meletian community. In the evening of Pachon 24 some members had been maltreated and beaten up by Athansius’ adherents and soldiers, who were in a drunken state. Callistus also reports that Athanasius was despondent as a result of some news he had received, and was causing further distress to the Meletians, imprisoning some and banishing others. With the address on the back written upside down in relation to the text.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105522 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2487 : Letter from the Archive of Paieous (P.Lond. VI 1914, TM 16852) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1238]/040-002105522
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A papyrus sheet, almost fully preserved, damaged on the left-hand side and lighter by patches. Writing is on both sides along the fibres; the text on the back is rubbed in places. On the recto there are five lines written across the fibres in the left margin from top to bottom of the papyrus; on the verso the address is written in the lower portion of the sheet, the opposite way up. Housed in one glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124745.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0335
- End Date:
- 0335
- Date Range:
- After 23 May 335
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 236 x 282 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 285 x 330 mm.
Script: Good upright cursive hand, fairly large and growing smaller as the scribe proceeded, particularly on the back.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Alexandria, Egypt.
Provenance: Phathor, Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 2486-2542 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) in September 1922. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan and Cornell University.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VI 1914
- 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.
H. I. Bell, Jews and Christians in Egypt. The Jewish Troubles in Alexandria and the Athanasian Controversy (London: British Museum 1924), pp. 53-71, no. 1914.
J. G. Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1933), pp. 174-175.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 87.
H. Hauben, ‘On the Melitians in P. London VI (P. Jews) 1914: The Problem of Papas Heraiscus’, in R. S. Bagnall, G. M. Browne, A. E. Hanson, L. Koenen (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress of Papyrology. New York, 24-31 July 1980 (American Studies in Papyrology 23) (Chico, CA: Scholars Press 1981), pp. 447-456.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 195.
D. W.-H. Arnold, ‘Sir Harold Idris Bell and Athanasius: A Reconsideration of London Papyrus 1914’, in E. A. Livingstone (ed.), Papers presented to the Tenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1987. Studia Patristica 21 (Leuven: Peeters Press 1989), pp. 377-383.
A. Camplani, ‘In margine alla storia dei Meliziani’, Augustinianum 30 (1990), pp. 313-351.
B. C. McGing, ‘Lease of a Linen-Weaving Workshop in Panopolis’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 82 (1990), pp. 115-121 (pp. 119-120).
B. Kramer, ‘Neuere Papyri zum frühen Mönchtum in Ägypten’, in G. W. Most, H. Petersmann, A. M. Ritter (eds.), Philanthropia kai eusebeia. Festschrift für Albrecht Dihle zum 70. Geburtstag (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1993), pp. 217-232.
W. J. Cherf, ‘What’s in a Name? The Gerontii of the Later Roman Empire’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994), pp. 145-174 (p. 154).
K. A. Worp, ‘A Checklist of Bishops in Byzantine Egypt (A. D. 325 – C. 750)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994), pp. 283-318 (pp. 286, 288, 290-292, 302, 317).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 148.
M. DiMaio, ‘Imago veritatis aut verba in speculo: Athanasius, the Meletian Schism, and Linguistic Frontiers in Fourth-Century Egypt’, in R. W. Mathisen, H. S. Sivan, Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity. Papers from the 1st Interdisciplinary Conference on Late Antiquity, the University of Kansas, March 1995 (Aldershot: Variorum 1996), pp. 277-284.
A. Martin, Athanase d’Alexandrie et l'église d'Égypte au IVe siècle (328-373) (Roma: École française de Rome 1996), pp. 359-361.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 110.
H. Hauben, ‘Le Papyrus London VI (P. Jews) 1914 dans son contexte historique (mai 335)’, in I. Andorlini, G. Bastianini, M. Manfredi, G. Menci (eds.), Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Firenze, 23-29 agosto 1998. Volume I (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli 2001), pp. 605-618.
P. van Minnen, ‘P. Harrauer 48 and the Problem of papas Heraiscus in P. Lond. VI 1914’, Tyche. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte Papyrologie und Epigraphik 16 (2001), pp. 103-105.
H. Hauben, ‘Aurêlios Pageus, alias Apa Paiêous, et le monastère mélitien d'Hathor’, Ancient Society 32 (2002), pp. 337-352.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 122.
H. Hauben, ‘Catholiques et Mélitiens à Alexandrie à la veille du synode de Tyr (335)’, in M. Immerzeel, J. van Der Vliet (eds.), Coptic Studies on the Treshold of a New Millennium. Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Coptic Studies. Leiden, 27 August - 2 September 2000. II (Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters en Dep. Oosterse Studies 2004), pp. 905-921.
H. Hauben, ‘Heraiscus as Melitian bishop of Heracleopolis Magna and the Alexandrian see’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 34 (2004), pp. 51-70 (pp. 51-53).
R. L. Mullen, The expansion of Christianity: a gazetteer of its first three centuries (Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill 2004), p. 293.
M. Choat, Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri (Turnhout: Brepols; Sydney: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre 2006), pp. 17, 45, 128, 134.
J. L. Fournet, ‘The Multilingual Environment of Late Antique Egypt: Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Persian Documentation’, in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 418-451 (p. 436).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 110.
L. H. Blumell, Lettered Christians: Christians, letters, and late antique Oxyrhynchus (Leiden: Brill 2012), p. 283 n. 9.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)