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Papyrus 3111
- Record Id:
- 040-003721061
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100111293570.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471841.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3111
- Title:
- Private Letter (P.Michael. 39, TM 33541)
- Scope & Content:
- Private letter concerned with various matters, including the poor health of the recipient’s mother, who may be at the point of death. The sender asks that someone be sent, as the recipient has left. With endorsement on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003721061 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3111 : Private Letter (P.Michael. 39, TM 33541) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2047]/040-003721061
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete but imperfect at the lower edge and partly on the sides; writing runs on both sides. On the front, there are 20 lines written along the fibres; margins are minimal. On the back, there is one broken line written across the fibres at the top of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471841.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0400
- End Date:
- 0499
- Date Range:
- 5th century (?)
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 290 x 150 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 335 x 220 mm.
Script: Fair-sized, irregular, untidy and sprawling cursive hand of an unpracticed scribe, with a slant to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Acquired with other Michaelides material, including Papyri 3100-3131, in April 1979 and transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books in May 1979. Formerly part of the private collection of Georges Anastase Michaelides (b. 1900, d. 1973), antiquities dealer in Cairo, sold by his heirs after his death, under the inventory number 1301.
- Former External References:
- P.Michael. 39
- Publications:
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David S. Crawford, Papyri Michaelidae: being a catalogue of the Greek and Latin papyri, tablets and ostraca in the library of Mr. G.A. Michaïlidis of Cairo (Aberdeen: The Aberdeen University Press, for the Egypt Exploration Society 1955), pp. 69-71, no. 39.
José O'Callaghan, ‘Sobre PMichael. 39, 9-15 [Vp?]’, Emerita 44 (1976), 345-8.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986), p. 105.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)