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Papyrus 2549
- Record Id:
- 040-002105543
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001c9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124968.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2549
- Title:
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Letter on the Dispatch of Some Articles (P.Lond. VI 1921, SB Kopt. III 1312, TM 44660)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter from the archive of Paieous, head of a Meletian community, concerning the dispatch of some articles and containing greetings and compliments. On the back there is the docket.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105543 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2549 : Letter on the Dispatch of Some Articles (P.Lond. VI 1921, SB Kopt. III 1312, TM 44660) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1335]/040-002105543
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two fragments and a scrap of a light-brown papyrus sheet, rubbed in places; left, top, right margins survive. A dark stain is visible in the lower portion of the sheet. Writing is along the fibres on either side, the back only having one-line docket. Mounted in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124968.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Coptic
- Scripts:
- Coptic
- 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: 245 x 198 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 295 x 245 mm.
Script: Upright and rather square hand of fair size, with few ligatures.
- 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 1921
SB Kopt. III 1312 - 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. 94-97, no. 1921.
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.
M. R. M. Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch III (Münich-Leipzig: K. G. Saur 2006), no. 1312.
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)