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Papyrus 2542
- Record Id:
- 040-003474238
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100095800475.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468002.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2542
- Title:
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Gift in Contemplation of Death (P.Diog. 11, TM 10690)
- Scope & Content:
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At the presence of six witnesses, Isidora, daughter of Ptolemaeus, of Arsinoe, with her husband Marcus Lucretius Diogenes as a guardian, bequeaths most of her possessions, including land, buildings, golden objects and garments, to her son Isidorus one day before her death; two slaves and five hundred silver drachmas are gifted to her husband. With subscriptions of Isidora written by her husband, and of Sarapammon, who wrote the document.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003474238 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2542 : Gift in Contemplation of Death (P.Diog. 11, TM 10690) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1119]/040-003474238
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete but damaged by holes and with some abrasion to the right; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are 32 lines; upper and lower margins are extant, the lower being irregular; no margin was left to the right; the left margin is lost opposite lines 10-15, but is otherwise preserved. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468002.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0213
- End Date:
- 0213
- Date Range:
- 27 November-26 December 213
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 218 x 185 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 265 x 230 mm.
Script: Small and fluent cursive hand with a slant to the right and tending to incline upwards (same as Papyrus 2533); different hand for the subscription in lines 27-31; first hand for the subscription of Sarapammon in the last two lines?
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of 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.Diog. 11
- 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.
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 577, no. 17.
P. Schubert, Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 39) (Bonn: R. Habelt 1990), pp. 102-108, no. 11, with pl. ix.
M. Meckler, ‘Two Papyri and Events in the Life of Caracalla’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 105 (1995), pp. 257–259 (p. 258).
J. Rowlandson, Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), no. 148.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 63.
P. van Minnen, ‘Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés by P. Schubert’, Mnemosyne 48 (1995), pp. 507-511.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 64.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)