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Papyrus 3090
- Record Id:
- 040-003720820
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100111084246.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471725.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3090
- Title:
- Miscellaneous Fragments
- Scope & Content:
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Miscellaneous texts
1+2: Unidentified document.
3: Unidentified document.
4: Unidentified document.
5: Blank?
6: Unidentified document.
7: Unidentified document.
8: Unidentified document.
9: Unidentified document.
10+12+13+14: Account related to the ibis cult, referring to ibises, an epimeletes (?), bakers, offerings, wine, myrrh, textiles, burials and sums of money. Reserved for publication.
11: Unidentified document.
15: Unidentified document with physical description, referring to a certain Hermias.
16: Unidentified document referring to a certain Sarapion.
17: Unidentified document.
18: Unidentified document.
19: Account (?) referring to 2 talents.
20: Unidentified document.
21: Unidentified document.
22: Unidentified document with number 3000.
Possibly, more fragments belong to the same document as 10+12+13+14.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003720820 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3090 : Miscellaneous Fragments - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2029]/040-003720820
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Twenty-two papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage (traces of plaster), housed in the same glass frame:
1+2: Two fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on both sides (8+6 lines along the fibres on recto, 8 lines against the fibres on verso), with upper margin (recto) partly extant.
3: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (6 lines along the fibres on recto, 6 lines against the fibres on verso).
4: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (9 lines against the fibres).
5: Blank (?) papyrus fragment sticking to 12. One side largely hidden by 12.
6: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (3 lines along the fibres on recto, 4 lines against the fibres on verso).
7: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line against the fibres), with left and possibly upper margin partly extant.
8: Fragment of papyrus, apparently sticking to 9, written on one side (3 lines along the fibres).
9: Fragment of papyrus, apparently sticking to 8, written on at least one side (5 lines along the fibres). Other side hidden by 8. The text is upside down.
10+12+13+14: Four fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on both sides (10+9+4+4 lines along the fibres on recto, 8+8 lines against the fibres on verso), possibly with upper and/or left margin (recto) partly extant.
11: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (4 lines along the fibres on recto, traces on verso).
15: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (7 lines along the fibres on recto, traces on verso). The text is upside down.
16: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres), with left and possibly upper margin partly extant.
17: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (traces), possibly with right margin partly extant.
18: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (traces).
19: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres).
20: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (3 lines along the fibres on recto, traces on verso).
21: Fragment of papyrus, apparently sticking to 22, written on both sides (1 line along the fibres on recto, traces on verso).
22: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (2 lines along the fibres on recto, traces on verso [unless this is another fragment]), possibly with lower margin (recto) partly extant.
Possibly, more fragments belong to the same document as 10+12+13+14.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0225
- End Date:
- -0100
- Date Range:
- late 3rd century-2nd century BC
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; fr. 1: 106 x 53 mm; fr. 5: 140 x 123 mm; fr. 11: 42 x 57 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 310 x 305 mm.
Script: Documentary hands.
- 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)