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Papyrus 19
- Record Id:
- 040-003725678
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112464721.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470614.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 19
- Title:
- Official Letter concerning the Twin Sisters in the Serapeum at Memphis (P.Lond. I 19, UPZ I 38, TM 3429)
- Scope & Content:
- Official letter of the epimeletes Mennides to the hypodioiketes Sarapion concerning his inquiry on the allowances in oil due to the twin sisters of the Serapeum, Tages (Taues) and Taous, for the years 18 and 19, in the reign of Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II. Mennides has investigated the matter and found out that the dues have been paid in year 20. The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725678 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 19 : Official Letter concerning the Twin Sisters in the Serapeum at Memphis (P.Lond. I 19, UPZ I 38, TM 3429) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2082]/040-003725678
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, with writing on both sides. On the front, there are 18 lines running along the fibres, complete; margins are extant; on the back, there is one line written across the fibres. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame, with an opening for the text on the back.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470614.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0161
- End Date:
- -0161
- Date Range:
- 21 February 161 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 178 x 234 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 200 x 206 mm.
Script: Rather irregular and untidy upright hand, occasionally ligatured and compressed in places.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Memphis, Serapeum in Saqqara, Egypt.
Provenance: Memphis, Serapeum in Saqqara. Purchased with Papyri 17-36 at Salt's sale at Sotheby's in June 1835 (lot 281). - Former External References:
- P.Lond. I 19
UPZ I 38 - Publications:
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Josiah Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1839), pp. 28-9, no. X.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum, 1893), pp. 16-17, no. 19, with facsimile 7.
Ulrich Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde) I. Band: Papyri aus Unterägypten (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1927), no. 38.
Pieter W. Pestman (ed.), Familiearchieven uit het land van Pharao (Zutphen: Terra, 1989), pp. 46-69.
Jane Rowlandson (ed.), Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 98-105.
Dorothy J. Thompson, Memphis under the Ptolemies (2nd ed.) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), pp. 199-246.
Gwen Jennes, ‘Life Portraits: People in Worship’, in A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt, ed. by Katelijn Vandorpe, (Chichester, West Sussex-Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019), pp. 473-81 (pp. 474-5).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)