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Papyrus 2493
- Record Id:
- 040-002105529
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001ad
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124808.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2493
- Title:
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Letter from the Archive of Papnuthius (P.Lond. VI 1925, TM 32658)
- Scope & Content:
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A fragmentary letter addressed to the anchorite Papnuthius from a certain Pianius (?), containing greetings and a request for prayers. The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105529 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2493 : Letter from the Archive of Papnuthius (P.Lond. VI 1925, TM 32658) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1324]/040-002105529
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Two fragments of a papyrus sheet, with wormholes in places; the sheet was folded from right to left and then once from top to bottom; on the recto, much of the left half is missing. Writing runs along the fibres, the back only having one-line docket. Housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124808.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0330
- End Date:
- 0370
- Date Range:
- Mid 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 292 x 185 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 345 x 235 mm.
Script: Fairly large, upright, regular hand, rather square; a second hand, smaller, sloping and more cursive, is found in the last two lines of the recto.
- 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 1925
- 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. 106-108, no. 1925.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 88.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 100.
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.
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. 47-49.
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 IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 148.
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. Giorda, L. Patrizi, ‘Direction spirituelle dans le monachisme chrétien oriental et dans le soufisme’, in G. Cecere, M. Loubet, S. Pagani (eds.), Les mystiques juives, chrétiennes et musulmanes dans l'Égypte médiévale, VIIe-XVIe siècles : interculturalités et contextes historiques: actes du colloque organisé à l'Ifao, 22-24 novembre 2010 (Le Caire: Institut français d'archéologie orientale 2013), pp. 330-360 (p. 337).
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)