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Papyrus 2547
- Record Id:
- 040-002105541
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001c7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124951.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2547
- Title:
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Letter to Apa Paieous (P.Lond. VI 1919, TM 16857)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter from Pennes to Apa Paieous, head of the Meletian community in Hathor, containing greetings, compliments and pious thoughts.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105541 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2547 : Letter to Apa Paieous (P.Lond. VI 1919, TM 16857) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1333]/040-002105541
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A light-brown papyrus, imperfect on the left, containing two columns, the first of which is incomplete. The papyrus was folded from right to left and is rubbed in a few places. Writing is along the fibres, the back only having a few traces. Partly mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124951.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0330
- End Date:
- 0340
- Date Range:
- 330-340
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 251 x 412 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 280 x 440 mm.
Script: Rather large and flowing cursive.
- 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 1919
- 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. 88-91, no. 1919.
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, ‘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.
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.
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.
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)
- Names:
- Apa Paieous, priest, confessor and head of the Meletian community in Hathor, Egypt; alias Pageus, 4th century
Pennes, Meletian, Egypt, 330-340 - Places:
- Phathor/Hathor, Egypt
- Related Material:
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The text belongs to the Archive of Apa Paieous (TM Arch ID 164).