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Papyrus 2491
- Record Id:
- 040-002105527
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001ab
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124789.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2491
- Title:
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Private Letter to Papnuthius (P.Lond. VI 1923, TM 32656)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter to Papnuthius from Ammonius, requesting prayers and informing him of a meeting he had with a certain Didymus. The final greetings are indented. With the address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105527 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2491 : Private Letter to Papnuthius (P.Lond. VI 1923, TM 32656) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1322]/040-002105527
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
A light-brown papyrus sheet, with darker patches on the right and wormholes throughout. On the front the upper margin measures 17 mm, the left one 10-15 mm and the lower one 65 mm. Writing is along the fibres; the back bears the address. Mounted in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124789.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0330
- End Date:
- 0370
- Date Range:
- Mid 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 282 x 100 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 330 x 155 mm.
Script: Clear and overall regular cursive hand of fair size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: 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 1923
- 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. 367.
H. I. Bell, Jews and Christians in Egypt. The Jewish Troubles in Alexandria and the Athanasian Controversy (London: British Museum 1924), pp. 103-105, no. 1923.
J. G. Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1933), pp. 175-187.
B. Kramer, J. C. Shelton, G. M. Browne, Das Archiv des Nepheros und verwandte Texte (Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern 1987), pp. 21, 23.
R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1993), p. 308.
H. Hauben, ‘Jean Arkhaph, évêque de Memphis, dans le catalogue mélitien’, in A. Schoors, P. Van Deun (eds.), Philohistôr. Miscellanea in honorem Caroli Laga septuagenarii (Leuven: Peeters 1994), pp. 23-33 (p. 25).
P. van Minnen, ‘The Roots of Egyptian Christianity’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 40 (1994), pp. 71-85 (pp. 79-80).
J. Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), p. 82.
G. E. Goehring, Ascetics, society, and the desert: studies in early Egyptian monasticism (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International 1999), p. 203.
M. Choat, ‘Papnouthios in "SB" I 2266: New Man or New Patron?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 133 (2000), pp. 157-162 (pp. 158, 160).
M. Choat, Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri (Turnhout: Brepols; Sydney: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre 2006), pp. 128 n. 582, 130.
M. Giorda, ‘La direction spirituelle à travers les règles monastiques. Péchés, pénitence et punitions dans le monachisme pachômien (IVe-Ve siècles)’, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 6 (2009), pp. 95-113 (p. 97).
E. Wipszycka, Moines et communautés monastiques en Egypte (IVe-VIIIe siècles), Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplements 11 (Varsovie: Warsaw University Faculty of Law and Administration Chair of Roman and Antique Law 2009), p. 82.
M. Choat, M. Giorda, Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Leiden-Boston: E. J. Brill 2017), pp. 29-33.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)