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Papyrus 2492
- Record Id:
- 040-002105528
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001ac
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124799.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2492
- Title:
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Private Letter to Papnuthius (P.Lond. VI 1924, TM 32657)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter to father Papnuthius from Ausonius, who informs the recipient about some instructions he has given on a not better specified matter, and requesting Papnuthius’ orders. With address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105528 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2492 : Private Letter to Papnuthius (P.Lond. VI 1924, TM 32657) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1323]/040-002105528
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A well preserved sheet of papyrus, with a few wormholes, especially in the folds and at the bottom. The papyrus was folded from right to left and then once from top to bottom. All margins are extant, the lower one measuring approximately 105 mm and the upper one 35 mm. Writing is along the fibres on both sides, the back bearing the address. Mounted in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124799.0x000001 (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: 285 x 120 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 330 x 170 mm.
Script: Well-formed upright cursive hand of medium size. A different hand occurs in the last 4 lines of the recto, rougher and more cursive, sloping to the right.
- 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 1924
- 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. 105-106, no. 1924, and Plate IV.
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), pp. 287, 308.
R. J. S. Barrett-Lennard, Christian healing after the New Testament : some approaches to illness in the second, third, and fourth centuries (Lanham: University Press of America 1994), pp. 43 and passim.
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).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 195.
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)