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Papyrus 3097
- Record Id:
- 040-003720873
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100111185735.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471768.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3097
- Title:
- Miscellaneous fragments
- Scope & Content:
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1: Unidentified document.
2: Unidentified document.
3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14: Unidentified document referring to Epeiph 25, a certain Demetrios, a certain Harpchemis, a sale and immovable property. Frr. 13-14 in Demotic.
15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22: Petition by anonymous person to Asklepiades, strategos, in charge of the revenue and lemusa of the Aphroditopolites (?), about the abduction of a she-ass, also referring to Harmenches, epistates of the Heptakomia, and the village of Sellis. The verso contains a note regarding the petition. Reserved for publication.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003720873 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3097 : Miscellaneous fragments - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2039]/040-003720873
- 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: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres), with left margin partly extant.
2: Fragment of papyrus, written on one side (1 line along the fibres).
3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14: Twelve fragments probably belonging to the same incomplete papyrus, written on one side (6+2+2+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 lines along the fibres), with right margin partly extant. Only the upper papyrus layer of these fragments is preserved (with the exception of 6, which still has two layers). 14 has the wrong side up in the frame.
15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22: Eight fragments of the same largely complete papyrus, written on both sides (24 lines along the fibres on recto, 5 lines against the fibres on verso), with all margins partly extant.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471768.0x000001 (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. 16: 52 x 69 mm; fr. 21: 114 x 78 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 335 x 280 mm.
Script: Documentary hands. In 15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22, clearly different hands on recto and verso.
- 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.
- 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.
I.S. Moyer, ‘Court, Chora and Culture in Late Ptolemaic Egypt’, The American Journal of Philology 132 (2011), 22.
W. Clarysse & A.I. Blasco Torres, Egyptian language in Greek sources: scripta onomastica of Jan Quaegebeur (Leuven: Peeters, 2019), pp. 314, 346.
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)