Year: 2009
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The archive of the architectonKleon and his successor Theodoros was discovered in 1899 by Flinders Petrie in mummy cartonnages in the cemetery of Gurob at the entrance to the Fayum. It was published by Mahafy in P. Petr. I (1891) and P. Petr. II (1893) and partly republished by Smyly in P. Petr. III (1905).1 Though the three Petrie volumes are rather unsatisfactory and extremely cumbersome to use, they have remained the standard edition until the present day. Within the Leuven project of re-edition of the Petrie Papyri, Bart Van Beek has now finished a re-edition of the archive. All originals have repeatedly been checked in Dublin, London, and Oxford. The final publication will appear in 2010 in Collectanea Hellenistica, a series sponsored by the Union Acade´mique Internationale.3 When it comes out, P. Petr. III 42 and 43, with their many subdivisions, will disappear, but the new edition will also incorporate texts that were thus far not considered part of the archive of Kleon, and a lot of unpublished fragments. The number of texts has nearly doubled to 120, but many of these are mere fragments and not useful for the present study, which will mainly deal with syntactical features visible only in fully preserved sentences (see the Appendix below for the new numbers which texts discussed here will have in Van Beek’s forthcoming edition).
Author: Willy Clarysse
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2531937547