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Papyrus 18
- Record Id:
- 040-003725725
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112632283.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470537.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 18
- Title:
- Accounts on the Grain Allowance of the Twin Sisters of the Serapeum (P.Lond. I 18, UPZ I 54-55, TM 3445-6)
- Scope & Content:
-
Recto (TM 3445): Account recording the amounts of olyra (a type of wheat) received as allowance by the twin sisters of the Serapeum Taous and Tages during the 18th, 19th, and part of the current 20th year (reign of Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II). With closing greetings.
Verso (TM 3446): Account of bread for the twins, rough version of the beginning of the account on the front, with traces of an earlier document.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725725 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 18 : Accounts on the Grain Allowance of the Twin Sisters of the Serapeum (P.Lond. I 18, UPZ I 54-55, TM 3445-6) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2090]/040-003725725
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved. The writing runs on both sides. On the front, there are 35 lines running along the fibres; all margins are extant. On the back, there are 7 lines running along the fibres and traces of 2 other lines written along the fibres the other way up. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470537.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0161
- End Date:
- -0161
- Date Range:
- 161 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 330 x 170 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 355 x 190 mm.
Script: Recto: Clear, but rather irregular upright hand, compressed and more cursive in places; with additions above the line. Verso: Rough, rather large hand.
- 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 280).
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. I 18
UPZ I 54
UPZ I 55 - Publications:
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Josiah Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1839), pp. 38-40, no. XIV.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum, 1893), pp. 22-4, no. 18, with facsimiles 11-12.
Ulrich Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde) I. Band: Papyri aus Unterägypten (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1927), nos. 54-5.
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.
Willy Clarysse, Katelijn Vandorpe, ‘A Demotic Lease of Temple Land Reused in the "Katochoi" Archive (Louvre N 2328a)’, Ancient Society 36 (2006), 1-11 (p. 3).
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)