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Papyrus 15(9-16)
- Record Id:
- 040-003907277
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122426325.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470031.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 15(9-16)
- Title:
- Miscellaneous Ptolemaic Documents (TM 3602, 3619, 4984, 5883, 5884, 5885, 5886, 5887)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments 9-10 (UPZ II 217, TM 3619): Part of an oath in duplicate form (one version being sealed) from a man who vouches for Ptolemaeus, appointed as secretary; the security pledges his house with courtyard and a plot of land. Dated 22 November 131 BC. Further portions are now in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, inventoried as P. 1383.
Fragment 11 (P.Lond. I 15(11), TM 5883): Fragment of a document, of which very little remains.
Fragment 12 (P.Lond. I 15(12), TM 5884): Fragment of a document, of which very little remains.
Fragment 13 (P.Lond. I 15(13), TM 5885): Beginning of a letter from Antipater to the banker Diogenes; the back bears a money account.
Fragment 14 (UPZ II 200, TM 3602, 4984): Small fragment containing part of a list of sales of land on the front. On the back, a few lines from the documentation on a request made by priests of Zeus in Thebes to the royal banker Diogenes to be repaid 250 bronze talents they had paid for the purchase of a priesthood, which had been put on hold on the suspicion that royal donations had been used for it. Dated 9 June 130 BC. Further portions are now in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, inventoried as P. 1388.
Fragment 15 (P.Lond. I 15(15), TM 5886): Beginning of a letter, apparently official, of 131-130 BC.
Fragment 16 (P.Lond. I 15(16), TM 5886): Fragment of a document mentioning bronze, of which little remains.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003907277 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 15(9-16) : Miscellaneous Ptolemaic Documents (TM 3602, 3619, 4984, 5883, 5884, 5885, 5886, 5887) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2371]/040-003907277
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Eight fragments, not all of which belong together, mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
Fragments 9-10: Two fragments from the same sheet, further portions of which are now in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, inventoried as P. 1383; written on one side along the fibres. The back is blank.
Fragment 11: Small papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides; written on one side along the fibres. A few letters from 2 lines survive. The back is blank.
Fragment 12: Small papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides; written on one side along the fibres. The ends of 3 lines survive. The back is blank.
Fragment 13: Upper portion of a papyrus sheet, written on both sides; the front bears 2 complete lines from the top of a column; the upper margin is extant. The back contains 4 lines running across the fibres.
Fragment 14: Papyrus fragment from the same sheet as a papyrus now in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, inventoried as P. 1388; written on both sides along the fibres on the front and across them on the back.
Fragment 15: Upper portion of a papyrus sheet, apparently complete on the left, written on one side along the fibres; the front bears the beginnings of 4 lines, the upper margin is ample; the back is blank.
Fragment 16: Small papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides; written on one side along the fibres. Parts of 5 lines survive. The back is blank.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0131
- End Date:
- -0130
- Date Range:
- 131-130 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size: fr. 13: 63 x 142 mm; fr. 15: 102 x 74 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 305 x 395 mm.
Script: Various cursive hands.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Fragments 9-10, 13-14, Dios polis (Thebes East), Egypt. Fragments 11-12, 15-16: Memphis.
Provenance: Fragments 9-10, 13-14, Dios polis (Thebes East), Egypt. Fragments 11-12, 15-16: Memphis. All fragments were presented by John Gardner Wilkinson (b. 1797, d. 1875) in 1834.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. I 15(10)
P.Lond. I 15(11)
P.Lond. I 15(12)
P.Lond. I 15(13)
P.Lond. I 15(14)
P.Lond. I 15(15)
P.Lond. I 15(16)
P.Lond. I 15(9)
UPZ II 200
UPZ II 217 - Publications:
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Josiah Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1839), pp. 56-57, 59-62, 64-65, nos. XXV-XXVI, XXIX-XXXI, XXXV, XXXVIII.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, I (London: British Museum, 1893), pp. 56-59, nos. 15(9-16), plates 30-31.
Ulrich Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde), 1-2 vols (Berlin: W. de Gruyter 1927-1934), 2: Lieferung 1, Papyri aus Oberägypten, nos. 200, 217.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 501.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 367.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 96.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)