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Papyrus 3088
- Record Id:
- 040-003720796
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110992077.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147621152.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3088
- Title:
- Miscellaneous Fragments
- Scope & Content:
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Miscellaneous texts.
1+2+3: Official letter related to a payment in kind to the treasury.
4+5+6+10+11+12+13+14+15+16: Official letter addressed to multiple people, dating to Mesore 9 of a fifteenth year. Reserved for publication.
7+8+9: Petition or official letter (?) related to theft, dating to Mesore 3 of an unknown year.
17: Unidentified document.
18: Letter.
19: Unidentified document.
20: Unidentified document.
21+22+23+24+25: Petition or official letter (?) related to a dispute, dating to Mesore 3 of a third year. Reserved for publication.
26: Petition or official letter (?) related to violence.
27: Unidentified document.
28+29+30+31+32: Official letter (?) related to a dispute, referring to a certain Nechthanoupis and a village named Chemre (?). Reserved for publication.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003720796 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3088 : Miscellaneous Fragments - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2023]/040-003720796
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Thirty-two papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage (traces of plaster), housed in the same glass frame:
1+2+3: Three fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (6+2 lines along the fibres), with lower and left margin partly extant.
4+5+6+10+11+12+13+14+15+16: Ten fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on both sides (3+3+3+2+2+2+2+2+1 lines along the fibres on recto, traces against the fibres on verso), with lower and left margin (recto) partly extant.
7+8+9: Three fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (3+2+1 lines along the fibres), with lower and right margin partly extant.
17: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres).
18: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (4 lines along the fibres), with upper and right margin partly extant. The text is upside down.
19: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (3 lines along the fibres).
20: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (5 lines along the fibres).
21+22+23+24+25: Five fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (6+4+4+2 lines along the fibres), with lower margin partly extant, and large space between lines 1-2 of 22.
26: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (4 lines along the fibres).
27: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).
28+29+30+31+32: Five fragments of the same incomplete document, written on one side (11+6+4+3+2 lines along the fibres).
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147621152.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0225
- End Date:
- -0100
- Date Range:
- late 3rd-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. 1: 69 x 52 mm; fr. 2: 58 x 40 mm; fr. 31: 80 x 113 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 310 x 35 mm.
Script: Documentary hands. In 7+8+9 rather scrawling hand, with a fine pen. In 18 text sloping to the right. In 28+29+30+31+32 irregular hand, with fluctuating line level.
- 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)