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Papyrus 854
- Record Id:
- 040-003689728
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106281948.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469408.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 854
- Title:
- Letter on a Journey up the Nile (P.Sarap. 101, P.Lond. III 854, Chrest.Wilck. 117, TM 17126)
- Scope & Content:
- Nearchus describes to Heliodorus his sightseeing journey up the Nile: he arrived at Syene, then went to Libya and visited the oracle of Ammon; he also carved the names of the dear ones on the monuments. The address of the letter is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003689728 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 854 : Letter on a Journey up the Nile (P.Sarap. 101, P.Lond. III 854, Chrest.Wilck. 117, TM 17126) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1822]/040-003689728
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, lacking part of the top, with some holes and abrasion in places; written on both sides. The front bears 12 lines running along the fibres, some of which are damaged; traces of another line are visible at the bottom. Lower and left margins are extant, the upper is damaged; no margin was left to the right. The back bears one line written along the fibres in the upper half of the sheet and lacking the beginning. The papyrus is housed in glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469408.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0090
- End Date:
- 0133
- Date Range:
- 90-133
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 125 x 126 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 175 x 175 mm.
Script: Thin, slightly sloping hand, occasionally ligatured.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 835-878 by the executors of William Joseph Myers, F. S. A., (b. 1858, d. 1899) through R. Taylor in 1900.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 117
P.Lond. III 854
P.Sarap. 101 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 440.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 205-206, no. 854, with pl. 28.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 4 (1908), pp. 526-568 (p. 554).
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 147-148, no. 117.
A. Deissmann, Licht vom Osten: das Neue Testament und die neuentdeckten Texte der hellenistisch-römischen Welt (Tübingen: Mohr 1923), p. 142, no. 29.
W. Crönert, 'De critici arte in papyris exercendi', in Raccolta di scritti in onore di Giacomo Lumbroso, 1844-1925 (Milano: Aegyptus 1925), pp. 439-534 (pp. 481-496).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), pp. 83-84.
J. Schwartz, Les archives de Sarapion et de ses fils. Une exploitation agricole aux environs d'Hermoupolis Magna (de 90 à 133 P.C.) (Le Caire: Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 1961), pp. 268-269, no. 101.
T. C. Skeat, ‘A Note on P. Lond. 854’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 60 (1974), pp. 259-260.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 228.
D. P. Kehoe, Management and Investment on Estates in Roman Egypt during the Early Empire (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 40) (Bonn: R. Habelt 1992), pp. 67-72.
R. Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus: vie quotidienne (Paris: Pygmalion 2003), pp. 249-250, no. 185.
G. Messeri, ‘Noterelle onomastiche’, Aegyptus 89 (2009), pp. 253-255 (p. 254).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)