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Papyrus 2544
- Record Id:
- 040-002105538
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001b4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124917.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2544
- Title:
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Letter to Paieous Concerning a Debtor (P.Lond. VI 1915, SB Kopt. III 1668, TM 16853)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter to the priest Paieous from Herieous, member of the Meletian community, concerning the vicissitudes of Pamontheis, a fellow member and wine-seller who had to borrow a large sum of money which he was unable to pay back. He was forced to sell everything, down to his clothes, and had his children carried off by the creditors. Herieous is now asking for Paieous’ help. On the back there is a postscript, two Coptic lines and the address in the final line, written the other way up. Another letter on the same subject is Papyrus 2545 (P.Lond. VI 1916).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105538 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2544 : Letter to Paieous Concerning a Debtor (P.Lond. VI 1915, SB Kopt. III 1668, TM 16853) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1330]/040-002105538
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A papyrus sheet, light and brown by patches. Damaged in the top left corner and broken off at the bottom, but complete on either side. Ink is faded in places, especially in the first lines. Writing is along the fibres on the front, with the exception of one line, written across the fibres from top to bottom of the left margin; on the back there are portions of four Greek lines and, after some blank space, two Coptic lines written along the fibres. The last line, written the reverse way up, is in Greek. Mounted in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Coptic
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Coptic
Greek - Start Date:
- 0330
- End Date:
- 0340
- Date Range:
- 330-340
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 205 x 181 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 255 x 230 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, clear, sloping cursive hand. Same hand as Papyrus 2545 (P.Lond. VI 1916).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Phathor, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2543-2551 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) in September 1923. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan, Columbia University and the University of Oslo.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VI 1915
SB Kopt. III 1668 - 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. 72-76, no. 1915.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 378-381, no. 160.
J. G. Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1933), pp. 175-176.
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. 99.
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. 171-173, no. 22.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 93.
B. Kramer, ‘Neuere Papyri zum frühen Mönchtum in Ägypten’, in G. W. Most, H. Petersmann, A. M. Ritter (eds.), Philanthropia kai eusebeia. Festschrift für Albrecht Dihle zum 70. Geburtstag (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1993), pp. 217-232.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 195.
S. Elm, Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford-New York: Clarendon Press 1996), pp. 345-346.
G. E. Goehring, Ascetics, society, and the desert : studies in early Egyptian monasticism (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International 1999), p. 202.
H. Hauben, ‘Aurêlios Pageus, alias Apa Paiêous, et le monastère mélitien d'Hathor’, Ancient Society 32 (2002), pp. 337-352.
On the Coptic lines: M. R. M. Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch III (Münich-Leipzig: K. G. Saur 2006), no. 1668.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 110.
E. A. Judge, Jerusalem and Athens: Cultural Transformation in Late Antiquity (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2010), pp. 171-172.
J. G. Keenan, J. G. Manning, U. Yiftach-Firanko (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 464-465, no. 9.3.1.
M. Choat, M. Giorda, Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Leiden-Boston: E. J. Brill 2017), pp. 25-29.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)