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Papyrus 2494
- Record Id:
- 040-002105530
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001ae
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124820.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2494
- Title:
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Private Letter from Valeria to Papnuthius (P.Lond. VI 1926, TM 32659, MP3 6061)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter from Valeria to Papnuthius, asking for his prayers so that she may heal from her disease, the shortage of breath. With the address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105530 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2494 : Private Letter from Valeria to Papnuthius (P.Lond. VI 1926, TM 32659, MP3 6061) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1325]/040-002105530
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A papyrus sheet, with wormholes in places and light-brown patches in the lower half. Writing is on both sides along the fibres; the back bears one-line docket. Mounted in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124820.0x000001 (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: 270 x 130 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 320 x 180 mm.
Script: A clear, yet somewhat irregular hand, overall fluent, with very few ligatures.
- 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 1926
- 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. 108-110, no. 1926.
J. G. Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1933), pp. 172-187
G. Tibiletti, Le lettere private nei papiri greci del III e IV secolo d.C.: tra paganesimo e cristianesimo (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1979), pp. 185-186, no. 28.
R. J. S. Barrett-Lennard, ‘Request for Prayer for Healing’, in G. H. R. Horsley (ed.), New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity. Vol. 4: A Review of Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Published in 1979 (North Ryde, N.S.W.: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University 1987), pp. 245–250.
H. C. Kee, Medicine, Miracle and Magic in New Testament Times (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1986), passim.
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. 186, 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. 45, 47-48, 63, 85.
P. van Minnen, ‘The Roots of Egyptian Christianity’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 40 (1994), pp. 71-85 (pp. 79-80).
H. Hauben, ‘Jean Arkhaph, évêque de Memphis, dans le catalogue mélitien’, in A. Schoors, P. Van Deun, Philohistôr. Miscellanea in honorem Caroli Laga septuagenarii (Leuven: Peeters 1994), pp. 23-33 (p. 25).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 149.
J. Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), no. 67.
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).
A. Crislip, ‘Illness and Ascetic Merit: The Moral Signification of Health and Sickness in Early Egyptian Monasticism’, in F. Wisse, W. A. Kappeler (eds.), Essays in honour of Frederik Wisse: scholar, churchman, mentor (Montréal, Canada: Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University 2005), pp. 151-182 (p. 167).
R. S. Bagnall, R. Cribiore, Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2006), p. 205, A14.10, no. 87.
M. Choat, Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri (Turnhout: Brepols; Sydney: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre 2006), pp. 128 n. 582, 130.
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.
E. Mathieson, Christian Women in the Greek Papyri of Egypt to 400 CE (Turnhout: Brepols 2014), pp. 36-38 and passim.
M. Choat, M. Giorda, Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Leiden-Boston: E. J. Brill 2017), pp. 29-33.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)