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Papyrus 981
- Record Id:
- 040-003695767
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100107760674.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469642.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 981
- Title:
- Private Letter (P.Lond. III 981, Chrest.Wilck. 130, TM 33777)
- Scope & Content:
-
Beginning of a letter from the deacon Ioannes to father Ioannes, containing expressions of affection and mention of a meeting with the dux.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003695767 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 981 : Private Letter (P.Lond. III 981, Chrest.Wilck. 130, TM 33777) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1863]/040-003695767
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom and complete on all other sides; with minor damage along a few vertical creases; with writing on both sides. On the front, there are 16 lines from the top of a column written along the fibres; upper and side margins are minimal. A sheet-join is visible a few millimetres from the right-hand edge. The back preserves very faded traces of one column across the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469642.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0375
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- late 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 149 x 127 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 200 x 180 mm.
Script: Large, somewhat irregular hand with a slight slant to the right, with a tendency to become more compressed and smaller towards the end.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Lykopolis (Assiut), Lycopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 885-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 130
P.Lond. III 981 - 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. 441.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 241-242, no. 981, with pl. 74.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 4 (1908), pp. 526-568 (pp. 558).
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 157, no. 130.
G. Ghedini, Lettere cristiane dai papiri greci del III e IV secolo (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1923), p. 168, no. 23.
J. G. Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1933), p. 168.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 84.
W. Döllstädt, Griechische Papyrusprivatbriefe in gebildeter Sprache aus den ersten vier Jahrhunderten nach Christus Papyrusprivatbriefe (Borna-Leipzig: R. Noske, 1934), p. 48.
A. Bataille, Les Papyrus (Paris: Les Presses Universitaires 1955), pl. VI.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 76.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 183.
C. Zuckerman, ‘The Hapless Recruit Psois and the Mighty Anchorite, Apa John’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 32 (1995), pp. 183-194.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 101.
L. H. Blumell, Lettered Christians: Christians, letters, and late antique Oxyrhynchus (Leiden: Brill 2012), p. 209, n. 204.
R. Ast, J. Cowey (eds.), Bulletin of Online Emendations to Papyri 3.1 (December 19, 2013), p. 1.
M. Choat, M. Giorda, Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Leiden-Boston: E. J. Brill 2017), pp. 38, 54.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)