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Papyrus 3086
- Record Id:
- 040-003720792
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110989162.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471706.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3086
- Title:
-
Miscellaneous Fragments
- Scope & Content:
-
Miscellaneous texts:
1: Unidentified document.
2: Unidentified document with physical descriptions.
3: Unidentified document.
4: Unidentified document referring to a certain Nikandros.
5: Unidentified document referring to a certain Hakoes.
6: Unidentified document.
7: Unidentified document.
8: Unidentified document.
9: Unidentified document.
10: Unidentified document.
11: Unidentified document.
12: Unidentified document referring to sowing.
13+14+15+16+17: Contract (homologia) dated to a second year, involving Thrasysthenes son of Theoxenos and Theoxenos son of Thrasysthenes (father and son?) and referring to money. Reserved for publication.
18: Unidentified document.
19: Unidentified document.
20: Unidentified document.
21: Unidentified document.
22: Unidentified document.
23: Unidentified document.
24+25: Unidentified document related to farming and referring to a certain Petophois.
26: Unidentified document.
27: Unidentified document.
28: Unidentified document.
29+30+31+32+33: Petition referring to the location of some immovable property. Reserved for publication.
34: Petition (?).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003720792 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3086 : Miscellaneous Fragments - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2021]/040-003720792
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Twenty-nine papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage (traces of plaster) and five papyrus fragments apparently from other context (13+14+15+16+17), housed in the same glass frame:
1: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (7 lines along the fibres).
2: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (4 lines along the fibres).
3: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).
4: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres), with right margin partly extant.
5: Fragment of a papyrus, written on both sides (8 lines along the fibres on recto, 2 lines against the fibres on verso).
6: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).
7: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (4 lines along the fibres).
8: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (4 lines along the fibres), with right margin partly extant.
9: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (3 lines along the fibres).
10: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (3 lines along the fibres).
11: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).
12: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres), with lower and possibly left margin partly extant.
13+14+15+16+17: Five fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on both sides (5+4+4+4 lines along the fibres on recto, 2 lines against the fibres on verso), with upper and left margin (recto) partly extant.
18: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (4 lines along the fibres).
19: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (6 lines along the fibres).
20: Fragment of a papyrus, apparently sticking to 19, written on at least one side (1 line along the fibres).
21: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (3 lines along the fibres).
22: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres), possibly with right margin partly extant.
23: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).
24+25: Two fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (6+3 lines along the fibres), with left margin partly extant.
26: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres), with left margin partly extant.
27: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (3 lines along the fibres).
28: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres), possibly with right margin partly extant.
29+30+31+32+33: Five fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (9+4+3+1 lines along the fibres), with left and possibly right margin partly extant.
34: Fragment of a papyrus, written on both sides (5 lines along the fibres on recto, 7 lines against the fibres on verso), with left margin (recto) partly extant.
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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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size: Fr. 15: 72 x 75 mm; fr. 19: 44 x 77 mm; fr. 31: 90 x 55 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 310 x 305 mm.
Script: Documentary hands. In 13+14+15+16+17 vivid, rounded hand, most probably Roman. In 29+30+31+32+33 less cursive than in the other fragments.
- 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.
Metadata received from the Ancient History Department at the Catholic University of Leuven.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Theoxenos, 3rd century BC-2nd century BC
Thrasysthenes, 3rd century BC-2nd century BC - Places:
- Assiut, Egypt
- Related Material:
- Fragments 3086.2 and/or 3086.10 possibly belong to the same document as 3087.13+14+15. Fragment 3088.20 possibly belongs to the same document as 3086.29+30+31+32+33.