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Papyrus 1575

Record Id:

040-003457087

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100082363841.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100143123074.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 1575

Title:

Document (Unpublished) and Letter of a School-Boy (SB III 6262, TM 31055)

Scope & Content:

Recto: Document, mostly illegible (Unpublished). At the bottom, written upside down in relation to the text, there is the address of the text on the verso.

Verso (SB III 6262, TM 31055): Letter of Thonis addressed to his father Arion. The boy inquires why Arion has not replied to any of his earlier letters and has failed to visit him; he mentions his teacher, who also wants to see him, as he is eager to continue offering lessons to the boy. Greetings follow and a reminder not to forget about the pigeons was added as a postscript between the lines. The address is on the other side.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-003457087

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 1575 : Document (Unpublished) and Letter of a School-Boy (SB III 6262, TM 31055)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0856]/040-003457087

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Sheet of papyrus cut out from a larger piece, bearing writing on both sides. The text on the front runs along the fibres and is almost illegible because of the dark stains and the salts deposited on the surface. Only the upper margin survives. The text on the verso is complete; some words were erased and corrected. The surface is occasionally damaged; horizontal folding lines are visible. All margins are extant, the side margins being minimal. The papyrus is mounted in a glass case.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0200

End Date:

0299

Date Range:

3rd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: 166 x 100 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 220 x 145 mm.

Script: Recto: Sloping hand of medium size, with some detached letters; Verso: Clear and practised hand of good size, somewhat compressed at the end of the lines, mostly displaying detached letters; some ligatured sequences occur. Lines tend to slightly slant upwards.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.

Former External References:

SB III 6262

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.

Verso:

H. I. Bell, ‘Some Private Letters of the Roman period from the London Collection’, Revue égyptologique N.S. 1 (1919), pp. 199-209 (pp. 201-203, no. 1).

W. Schubart, Ein Jahrtausend am Nil; Briefe aus dem Altertum (Berlin: Weidmann 1923), p. 69.

Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten III (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter 1926), pp. 40-41, no. 6262.

A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 338-339, no. 133.

J. G. Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1933), pp. 64-65.

H. Metzger, Nachrichten aus dem Wüstensand : eine Sammlung von Papyruszeugnissen (Zürich: Artemis 1974), no. 42.

R. Cribiore, Gymnastics of the mind: Greek education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2001), p. 112.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 199.

M. Joyal, I. McDougall, J. Yardley, Greek and Roman education: a sourcebook (Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon-New York, NY: Routledge 2009), pp. 182-183.

T. V. Evans, ‘Counting Chickens in "PSI" VI 569’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 173 (2010), pp. 191-200 (pp. 199-200).

A. Pudsey, ‘Children in Roman Egypt’, in J. E. Grubbs, T. Parkin (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World (New York: Oxford University Press 2014), pp. 484-509 (p. 504).

Exhibitions:

Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Arion, 3rd century
Thonis, 3rd century