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Papyrus 1920
- Record Id:
- 040-003711596
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109811268.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466780.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1920
- Title:
- Private Letter (SB III 6264, TM 27793)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter of a mother to her son Copres, blaming his wife for inflaming his already hot temper. She has not been able to find any money to give him, but she has not been keeping anything back from him and she fully trusts him. The postscript adds that nobody can love him as his wife is shaping him to her own advantage. The tone and vocabulary are personal and vivid.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003711596 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1920 : Private Letter (SB III 6264, TM 27793) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1963]/040-003711596
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- One medium-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, damaged along the right-hand edge and with some holes throughout; written on one side; the back is blank. On the front, there are 21 lines written along the fibres, the last being very fragmentary; 2 lines were added in the left margin, running across the fibres from top to bottom. Upper, left and part of the right margin survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466780.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0175
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- late 2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 160 x 52 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 210 x 105 mm.
Script: Competent and fluent hand, slightly slanting to the right, with more careful and larger letterforms at the beginning and ligatured in places; probably not the hand of the sender.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1873-2016 from Ali Abd el Hari on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- SB III 6264
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum 1969), p. 475.
Harold Idris Bell, ‘Some private letters of the roman period: from the London Collection’, Revue égyptologique N.S. 1 (1919), 199-209 (pp. 206-208, no. 3).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten III (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter, 1926), no. 6264.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 245.
Roger S. Bagnall, Raffaella Cribiore, Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2006), p. 282.
Roger S. Bagnall, Raffaella Cribiore, Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2008), B1.20, no. 157.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), p. 195.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)