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Papyrus 24
- Record Id:
- 040-003791061
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100116177308.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470934.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 24
- Title:
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Petitions (UPZ I 2, TM 3393; UPZ I 52, TM 3443)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (UPZ I 2, TM 3393): Petition to the strategus of Memphis, Dionysius, by Harmais, a recluse in the Serapeum, against Nephoris. Nephoris’s daughter Tathemis, who had been living in the temple with Harmais, had deposited a considerable sum of money with Harmais for safekeeping. Nephoris claimed the sum on the grounds that her daughter needed them for her circumcision, clothing and dowry. Had the terms not been met, Nephoris would have had to pay the money back with addition; not only did this not happen, but Tathemis is now claiming back her money. Dated between April and October 163 BC.
Verso (UPZ I 52, TM 3443): Copy of a petition from Ptolemaeus, recluse in the Serapeum, to the hypodioiketes of Memphis, Sarapion, concerning the bread allowance still due to the twins of the Serapeum, Taous and Tages. The twins are in distressed condition, as they are hungry. Dated shortly after 10 January 161 BC. Papyrus 35 contains the same petition.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003791061 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 24 : Petitions (UPZ I 2, TM 3393; UPZ I 52, TM 3443) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2217]/040-003791061
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Long and narrow medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete, damaged along the folds; written on both sides. On the front, there is one column of 31 lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant, the right being minimal. The back bears two columns written along the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470934.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0163
- End Date:
- -0161
- Date Range:
- 163-161 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 410 x 230 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 430 x 255 mm.
Script: Recto: Neat and regular upright hand of fair size, occasionally compressed at the ends of the lines. Verso: Rather rough and unskilled hand.
- Custodial History:
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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.
- Former External References:
- UPZ I 2
UPZ I 52 - Publications:
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Josiah Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1839), pp. 41-44, no. XV.
Recto
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum, 1893), pp. 31-33, no. 24 ro., with facsimile 18.
Edward M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912), p. 155, no. 22.
Wilhelm Schubart, Griechische Palaeographie (München: C. H. Beck, 1925), p. 35, pl. 12.
Ulrich Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde). 2 vols. (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1927-34), 1: Papyri aus Unterägypten, no. 1.
Richard Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri. 3 vols. (Stuttgart: A. Hierseman, 1967-1990), 3, p. 42, plates 5, 9.
Joachim Hengstl, Griechische Papyri aus Ägypten als Zeugnisse des öffentlichen und privaten Lebens (München: Heimeran Verlag, 1978), no. 56.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 499.
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. 99-100, no. 78.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), pp. 286-87.
Sabine R. Huebner, ‘Female Circumcision as a Rite de passage in Egypt - Continuity through the Millennia?’, Journal of Egyptian History, 2 (2009), 149-71.
Adolf Wilhelm, ‘Zum griechischen Wortschatz’, in Adolf Wilhelm, Kleine Schriften. Abteilung II. Abhandlungen und Beiträge zur griechischen Inschriftenkunde. Teil IV, ed. by Gerhard Dobesch, Georg Rehrenböck (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akadademie der Wissenschaften, 2002), pp. 170-86.
Reinhold Scholl, ‘Tempelprostitution im griechisch-römischen Ägypten? Hierodouloi als Tempelsklaven und Tempelprostituierte?’, in Tempelprostitution im Altertum. Fakten und Fiktionen. Oikumene. Studien zur antiken Weltgeschichte, 6 (2009), 183-97 (pp. 191-92).
Verso
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, I (London: British Museum, 1893), p. 26, no. 24 vo., with facsimile 14.
Ulrich Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde). 2 vols. (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1927-34), 1: Papyri aus Unterägypten, no. 52.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986), p. 276.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)