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Papyrus 21
- Record Id:
- 040-003725726
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112638546.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470701.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 21
- Title:
- Petition for the Twins of the Serapeum (P.Lond. I 21, UPZ I 24, TM 3415, 58502)
- Scope & Content:
- Petition to the hypodioiketes Sarapion from Ptolemaeus son of Glaucias, ‘recluse’ (katochos) in the Serapeum, on behalf of Taous and Tages, twin sisters in the Serapeum. Ptolemaeus recalls the king’s decisions as regards the oil allowances still due to the twins, and asks Sarapion to order Mennides to act accordingly; written shortly after 27 September. Traces of erased lines in Demotic are visible.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725726 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 21 : Petition for the Twins of the Serapeum (P.Lond. I 21, UPZ I 24, TM 3415, 58502) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2091]/040-003725726
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, with minor damage along a vertical fold. The writing runs on one side and the back is blank. On the front, there are 30 lines running along the fibres; all margins are extant. Traces of erased lines are visible in the left margin. A sheet-join runs vertically along the left edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470701.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Egyptian (Ancient)
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Egyptian demotic
Greek - Start Date:
- -0162
- End Date:
- -0162
- Date Range:
- 162 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 330 x 169 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 355 x 195 mm.
Script: Careful and neat upright hand with cursive elements and a tendency to become more rapid; occasionally compressed at the end of the lines; lines tend to incline upwards.
- 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 565).
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. I 21
UPZ I 24 - Publications:
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Josiah Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1839), pp. 19-20, no. V, with pl. II.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum, 1893), pp. 12-3, no. 21, with facsimile 4.
Edward M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912), pp. 156-7, facsimile no. 23.
Ulrich Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde) I. Band: Papyri aus Unterägypten (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1927), no. 24.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1933), p. 172.
Richard Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri (Stuttgart: A. Hierseman 1967), p. 10.
Pieter W. Pestman (ed.), Familiearchieven uit het land van Pharao (Zutphen: Terra, 1989), pp. 46-69.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 362.
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)