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Papyrus 31
- Record Id:
- 040-003725716
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112512123.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471773.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 31
- Title:
- Receipt for Allowances due to the Twin Sisters of the Serapeum (P.Lond. I 31, UPZ I 29, TM 3420)
- Scope & Content:
- Demetrius son of Sosius acknowledges receipt of a quantity of sesame oil as allowance of the twin sisters of the Serapeum Taous and Tages. There follows another receipt (lines 6-12) for two payments made on account of the allowances of sesame oil of years 18 and 19 in the reign of Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II, due to the twins. Papyrus 27 (UPZ I 30) is a duplicate of lines 6-12. With endorsement on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725716 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 31 : Receipt for Allowances due to the Twin Sisters of the Serapeum (P.Lond. I 31, UPZ I 29, TM 3420) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2089]/040-003725716
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, square-shaped, complete and well preserved. The writing runs on both sides. On the front, there are 13 lines running along the fibres; all margins are extant. On the back, there are two lines written across the fibres at the bottom. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471773.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0162
- End Date:
- -0162
- Date Range:
- 26 December 162 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 123 x 132 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 145 x 150 mm.
Script: Somewhat untidy upright hand, more cursive in places.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Memphis, Serapeum in Saqqara, Egypt.
Provenance: Memphis, Serapeum in Saqqara. urchased with Papyri 17-36 at Salt's sale at Sotheby's in June 1835 (lot 1109.4).
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. I 31
UPZ I 29 - Publications:
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Josiah Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1839), p. 26, no. VIII.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum, 1893), pp. 15-16, no. 31, with facsimile 6.
Ulrich Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde) I. Band: Papyri aus Unterägypten (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1927), no. 29.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1933), p. 172.
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)