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Papyrus 17
- Record Id:
- 040-003791057
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100116171957.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470378.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 17
- Title:
- Documents relating to the Allowances of the Twins of the Serapeum (UPZ I 23, 26-27, TM 3414, 3417, 3418)
- Scope & Content:
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Column 1, lines 1-26 (UPZ I 23, TM 3414): Report of the scribe (grammateus) Apollonius to the epimeletes Mennides that the oil allowances are still due to the twin sisters of the Serapeum Taous and Taues (Tages), also referring to the preceding documentation and investigations. Dated 14 December 162 BC.
End of column 1-column 2, lines 1-6 (UPZ I 27, TM 3418): Order from Theon to Dionysius to pay the oil allowances to the twins’ agent; this document was probably written some days after the following document.
Column 2, line 7-end (UPZ I 26, TM 3417): Order from Mennides to Theon to pay the oil allowances to the twins, referring to earlier documents. Dated 18 December 162 BC.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003791057 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 17 : Documents relating to the Allowances of the Twins of the Serapeum (UPZ I 23, 26-27, TM 3414, 3417, 3418) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2215]/040-003791057
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Medium-brown papyrus, complete but imperfect at the bottom; written on one side. On the front, there is a column of 26 lines, followed by some blank space and ten further lines; the second column consists of 26 lines, followed by ample lower margin. The back is blank. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470378.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0162
- End Date:
- -0162
- Date Range:
- 162 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: mm; housed in a glass frame measuring x mm.
Script: Various hands: in column 1, lines 1-26, irregular and unskilled upright hand, with corrections; lines uneven; rest of column 1 and beginning of column 2: small practised cursive hand; rest of column 2: very small, upright hand, more cursive in places.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Memphis, Serapeum in Saqqara, Egypt.
Provenance: Memphis, Serapeum in Saqqara. Purchased with Papyri 18-36 at Salt's sale at Sotheby's in June 1835.
- Former External References:
- UPZ I 23
UPZ I 26
UPZ I 27 - Publications:
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Josiah Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1839), pp. 21-24, no. VI.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum, 1893), pp. 10-11, no. 17(a-c), with facsimile 3.
Ulrich Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde). 2 vols. (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1927-34), 1: Papyri aus Unterägypten, nos. 23, 26-27.
Dorothy J. Thompson, Memphis under the Ptolemies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), p. 242.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)