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Papyrus 3085
- Record Id:
- 040-003720791
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110988686.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471698.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3085
- Title:
- Miscellaneous fragments, and Historical Narrative (TM 65615, LDAB 6866, MP3 2197.01)
- Scope & Content:
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Miscellaneous texts:
1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+10: The recto contains an unidentified document (TM 91982). The verso contains a historical narrative describing military actions in Illyria, Thracia and Paionia (TM 65615).
9: Unidentified text.
11: Unidentified texts. The text on the recto refers to witnesses.
12+13+17+18+19: Unidentified literary texts. The text on the recto refers to Hellas. The text on the verso refers to bad deeds.
14+15: Unidentified text.
16: Unidentified text.
20+22: Unidentified text, possibly a document related to bidding.
21: Unidentified literary texts. The text on the recto refers to the agora.
23: Unidentified text.
24: Unidentified text.
25: Unidentified text.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003720791 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3085 : Miscellaneous fragments, and Historical Narrative (TM 65615, LDAB 6866, MP3 2197.01) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2020]/040-003720791
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Twenty-five papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage (traces of plaster), housed in the same glass frame:
1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+10: Nine fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on both sides (22+15+7+5+3+3 lines along the fibres on recto, 35+7+8+5+2+2 lines against the fibres on verso). On the verso, the text is divided in at least three columns and part of the lower margin is visible. Wrong side up in the frame (presumably because the verso contains the most interesting text).
9: Papyrus fragment, written on one side (7 lines along the fibres), with broad left margin partly extant.
11: Papyrus fragment, written on both sides (7 lines along the fibres on recto and 5 lines against the fibres on verso).
12+13+17+18+19: Five fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on both sides (11+7+1 lines along the fibres on recto, 8+4 lines against the fibres on verso).
14+15: Two fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (5+4 lines along the fibres).
16: Papyrus fragment, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).
20+22: Two fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (6 lines along the fibres).
21: Papyrus fragment, written on both sides (7 lines along the fibres on recto, 6 lines against the fibres on verso).
23: Papyrus fragment, written on both sides (1 line along the fibres on recto, 1 line against the fibres on verso). Wrong side up in the frame.
24: Papyrus fragment, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).
25: Papyrus fragment, written on both sides (1 line along the fibres on recto, 1 line against the fibres on verso).
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471698.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0225
- End Date:
- -0100
- Date Range:
- late 3rd century-2nd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size: fr. 4: 104 x 100 mm; fr. 8: 85 x 112 mm; fr. 11: 71 x 30 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 330 x 460 mm.
Script: Mixture of documentary and literary hands. In 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+10, 11, 12+13+17+18+19 and 21 clearly different hands on recto and verso. In 21 (recto) early example of a breathing.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Lykopolis (Assiut), Egypt.
Provenance: Lykopolis (Assiut), Egypt. Mummy cartonnage derived from excavations by David George Hogarth in Asyut in 1906-1907; purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 3085-3098, and incorporated into the collection in September 1978. Papyri 3085-3093 come from the same mummy.
- Publications:
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Willy Clarysse, ‘Ptolemaic papyri from Lycopolis’, in J. Bingen & G. Nachtergael (eds.), Actes du XVe Congrès International de Papyrologie (Brussels: Fondation égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1979), p. 106.
Gert Baetens, ‘An Embalmers’ Dispute in Hypsele/Shashotep’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 66 (2020), 274.
1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+10 verso: Willy Clarysse, G. Schepens, ‘A Ptolemaic fragment of an Alexander history’, Chronique d'Égypte 60 (1985), 30-47.
Metadata received from the Ancient History Department at the Catholic University of Leuven.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)