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Papyrus 28
- Record Id:
- 040-003725707
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112502448.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471252.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 28
- Title:
- Letter from the Archive of the Katochoi of the Serapeum (P.Lond. I 28, UPZ I 73, TM 3464)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter of Apollonius to Sarapion, with instructions on the grain allowance and informing him that he has given 200 drachmas to Ptolemaeus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725707 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 28 : Letter from the Archive of the Katochoi of the Serapeum (P.Lond. I 28, UPZ I 73, TM 3464) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2086]/040-003725707
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Long and narrow light-brown papyrus sheet, complete, with some surface damage, lacking the top layer of fibres in the centre and being imperfect along the right edge. The writing runs on one side, and the back is blank. On the front, there are 9 lines running along the fibres and occupying about one third of the sheet; all margins are extant, the lower being ample (about 160 mm). The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471252.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0199
- End Date:
- -0150
- Date Range:
- 1st half of 2nd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 247 x 79 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 270 x 100 mm.
Script: Large, rather irregular and untidy upright hand, ligatured in places; with one erasure.
- 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 1109.1).
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. I 28
UPZ I 73 - Publications:
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Josiah Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1839), pp. 45-6, no. XVII.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum, 1893), p. 43, no. 28, with facsimile 26.
Stanislaus Witkowski, Epistulae privatae Graecae quae in papyris aetatis Lagidarum servantur (Lipsiae: Teubner 1911), p. 73, no. 39.
Ulrich Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde) I. Band: Papyri aus Unterägypten (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1927), no. 73.
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.
Hermann Harrauer, Handbuch der griechischen Paläographie. Textband (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2010), pp. 220-221, no. 42.
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)