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Papyrus 3095
- Record Id:
- 040-003720871
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100111185053.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471754.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3095
- Title:
- Miscellaneous fragments
- Scope & Content:
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Miscellaneous texts
1+2+3+4+5+6+7+10: Unidentified document referring to a sum of 1000 drachmas, a bank(er) (?) and a third year (?).
8+9: Unidentified document.
11: Unidentified document.
12+13+14: Petition or letter referring to a certain Philinos.
15+16: Petition or letter (?).
17+18+19+20: Petition to the king (?). Reserved for publication.
21: Unidentified document referring to a certain Areios.
22: Unidentified document.
23: Notification (?).
24: Petition (?) by anonymous woman.
25: Unidentified document.
26: Unidentified document.
27: Unidentified document.
28: Blank?
29: Unidentified document.
Perhaps more fragments belong together.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003720871 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3095 : Miscellaneous fragments - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2037]/040-003720871
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Twenty-nine papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage (traces of plaster), housed in the same glass frame
1+2+3+4+5+6+7+10: Eight fragments probably belonging to the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (8+5+5+4+4+3+3+2 lines against the fibres), with upper margin partly extant.
8+9: Two fragments from the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (3+2 lines along the fibres). The text in 9 is upside down.
11: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines against the fibres).
12+13+14: Three fragments probably belonging to the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (3+3+2 lines against the fibres).
15+16: Two fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on both sides (6+5 lines against the fibres on recto, 1 line along the fibres on verso).
17+18+19+20: Four fragments probably belonging to the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (5+2+2 lines against the fibres), with upper, lower and right margin partly extant.
21: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres), with upper and possibly right margin partly extant.
22: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (3 lines along the fibres).
23: Fragment of papyrus, written on both sides (1 line along the fibres on recto, traces on verso), with upper and possibly right margin (recto) partly extant.
24: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines against the fibres).
25: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (4 lines against the fibres).
26: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (3 lines against the fibres).
27: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres).
28: Blank (?) papyrus fragment.
29: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (2 lines against the fibres), with upper margin partly extant.
Perhaps more fragments belong together.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471754.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Egyptian (Ancient)
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Egyptian demotic
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: 51 x 39 mm; fr. 17: 79 x 70 mm; fr. 21: 79 x 65 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 3094-3096 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)
- Places:
- Assiut, Egypt
- Related Material:
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British Museum EA10542-10544, EA10550 (?) and EA76523 contain Hieratic, Demotic, Arabic and blank fragments from the same excavations. Papyri 3094-3096 come from one set of mummy cartonnage.