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Papyrus 1561
- Record Id:
- 040-003711599
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109813330.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465725.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1561
- Title:
- Private Letter (SB III 6265, TM 25445)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter to Serenus from Ascles, who hopes to see the recipient soon and enquires about his health. He was grieved that he missed the ship. With address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003711599 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1561 : Private Letter (SB III 6265, TM 25445) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1964]/040-003711599
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- One medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete, with a few insect-holes at the bottom (front); written on both sides. On the front, there are 14 complete lines running along the fibres, the last being written after some blank space; all margins are extant, the lower being ample. The back bears one line written across the fibres the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465725.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0075
- End Date:
- 0099
- Date Range:
- late 1st century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 189 x 84 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 220 x 135 mm.
Script: Proficient and regular hand, slightly sloping to the right.
- 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 6265
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 311.
Harold Idris Bell, ‘Some private letters of the Roman period from the London Collection’, Revue égyptologique N.S. 1 (1919), 199-209 (pp. 208-209, no. 4).
Bror H. Olsson, Papyrusbriefe aus der frühesten Römerzeit (Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-a.-b., 1925), no. 80.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten III (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter, 1926), no. 6265.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)