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Papyrus 2495
- Record Id:
- 040-002105531
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001af
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124830.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2495
- Title:
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Private Letter from Dorotheus to Papnuthius (P.Lond. VI 1927, TM 32660)
- Scope & Content:
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A private letter from Dorotheus, from the Oxyrhynchite nome, to an unnamed recipient, who should be Papnuthius, containing greetings and zealous compliments; Dorotheus also asks his correspondent whether he wants the writer to come up. Only faded traces survive of the column on the back alongside four figures.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105531 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2495 : Private Letter from Dorotheus to Papnuthius (P.Lond. VI 1927, TM 32660) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1326]/040-002105531
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A larger fragment and two scraps from a papyrus sheet, worm-eaten in places, with much of the lower part on the left being lost. On the recto there are two columns written along the fibres; the top margin measures between 9-16 mm, the left one 33 mm and the right one between 10-23 mm. The space between the columns measures approximately 35 mm. On the verso there are faded traces of a column, written across the fibres and headed by A (= no. 1), in addition to four figures (oblong parallelograms with a single stroke through each).
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124830.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 240 x 320 mm; the scraps measure 50 x 31 mm and 49 x 31 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 290 x 370 mm.
Script: Fair-sized sloping uncial hand, with a tendency for becoming smaller and more cramped towards the end.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchite nome (?), 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 1927
- 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. 110-113, no. 1927.
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. 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. 45-46.
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).
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).
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.
L. H. Blumell, ‘Christians on the Move in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus’, in Ph. H. Harland (ed.), Travel and Religion in Antiquity (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2011), pp. 235-254 (pp. 248, 252).
L. H. Blumell, Lettered Christians: Christians, letters, and late antique Oxyrhynchus (Leiden: Brill 2012), pp. 226-227 and passim.
L. H. Blumell, ‘P.Birmingham inv. 317', The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 44 (2014), pp. 83-91 (p. 91).
S. Remijsen, The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press 2015), pp. 278, 284.
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)