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Papyrus 2488
- Record Id:
- 040-002105523
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001a8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124755.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2488
- Title:
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Private Letter to Paieous about Clothing (P.Lond. VI 1920, SB Kopt. III 1311, TM 44659)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter addressed to the confessor Paieous from a certain Hatre, who greets the recipient and the Meletian community and requests the making of a cloak and some shoes. The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105523 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2488 : Private Letter to Paieous about Clothing (P.Lond. VI 1920, SB Kopt. III 1311, TM 44659) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1239]/040-002105523
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A light-brown papyrus sheet, lacking portions on its left-hand side; writing is across the fibres on the front; the bottom margin measures 45 mm. The back has a one-line docket written along the fibres and a parallelogram. Mounted in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124755.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Coptic
- Scripts:
- Coptic
- Start Date:
- 0330
- End Date:
- 0340
- Date Range:
- 330-340
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 260 x 150 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 305 x 190 mm.
Script: Fair-sized and upright hand, rounded and overall regular, with a few ligatures.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: 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 1920
SB Kopt. III 1311 - 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. 91-93, no. 1920.
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.
G. E. Goehring, Ascetics, society, and the desert: studies in early Egyptian monasticism (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International 1999), p. 202.
H. Hauben, ‘Aurêlios Pageus, alias Apa Paiêous, et le monastère mélitien d'Hathor’, Ancient Society 32 (2002), pp. 337-352.
M. R. M. Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch III (Münich-Leipzig: K. G. Saur 2006), no. 1311.
E. A. Judge, Jerusalem and Athens: Cultural Transformation in Late Antiquity (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2010), pp. 171-172.
M. Choat, M. Giorda, Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Leiden-Boston: E. J. Brill 2017), pp. 25-29.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)