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Papyrus 33
- Record Id:
- 040-003791063
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100116180423.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471879.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 33
- Title:
- Petition of the Twin Sisters of the Serapeum (UPZ I 39, TM 3430), and Private Letter (UPZ I 74, TM 3465)
- Scope & Content:
-
Draft of a petition to the hypodioiketes Sarapion from the twin sisters Taous and Taoues, who ask for his assistance to receive the oil allowance still due to them.
A draft of the beginning of a letter from Apollonius to various individuals is written in the right margin, the other way up in relation to the petition.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003791063 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 33 : Petition of the Twin Sisters of the Serapeum (UPZ I 39, TM 3430), and Private Letter (UPZ I 74, TM 3465) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2218]/040-003791063
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete, but torn along the left edge and in the centre; written on one side along the fibres. On the front, there is a column of 35 lines and another small column of 10 lines written the other way up in relation to the first column, with traces of two erased lines; all margins are extant. 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_100147471879.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0161
- End Date:
- -0161
- Date Range:
- 161 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 343 x 277 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 370 x 305 mm.
Script: Rough and irregular hands.
- 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 39
UPZ I 74 - Publications:
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Josiah Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1839), pp. 30-32, no. XI.
A
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, I (London: British Museum, 1893), pp. 19-20, no. 33(a), with facsimile 9.
Ulrich Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde). 2 vols. (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1927-34), 1: Papyri aus Unterägypten, no. 39.
B
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, I (London: British Museum, 1893), pp. 20-21, no. 33(b), with facsimile 9.
Stanislaus Witkowski, Epistulae privatae Graecae quae in papyris aetatis Lagidarum servantur (Lipsiae: Teubner, 1911), no. 40.
Ulrich Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde). 2 vols. (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1927-34), 1: Papyri aus Unterägypten, no. 74.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)