Receipt for customs duties (under publication TM 987452)
Scope & Content:
Receipt of Nemonius Longus and Socrates---, customs officers of the harbour of Syene, for the import of wheat, lentils, oil and barly, paid by Sansnos.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
26 January-24 february 139
Extent:
1 potsherd, incomplete, broken at right, margins at top, left and bottom, 7 lines.
Receipt for poll tax (under publication TM 987453)
Scope & Content:
Receipt issued by Flavius Eutyches, tax farmer (misthotes) of the Sacred Gate of Syene, Longinus Crispus, and associate supervisors, through the assistant Sarapion, for poll tax (laographia) of year 11 of Hadrian, paid by Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis --- and the mother Tisatis, in year 12 of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
6 October 127
Extent:
1 potsherd, incomplete, broken at left, margins at top, right and bottom, 12 lines.
Fragments containing portions of an otherwise unknown Gospel (P. Lond. Christ. 1, P. Egerton 2). P. Köln VI 255 is from the same codex and follows on from fragment 1.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Mid 2nd century
Extent:
Fragments of three leaves of a codex, mounted in glass.
Fragments of a papyrus codex perhaps containing a commentary on the Gospel of John or the Genesis attributed to Origen. Biblical quotations occur. Further fragments of the same codex are in Florence.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of 3rd century
Extent:
Nine fragments of varying size and colour from the same papyrus codex as some fragments housed in the Istituto Papirologico ‘G. Vitelli’, Florence (PSI inv. 2101). The British Library fragments were originally fifteen, some of which joined to form two larger fragments; they come from two pages of the codex. Writing is on both sides, along and across the fibres. Some surface damage is located especially on the side written across the fibres. Each page contained two columns; each line had an average of 19-21 letters. The intercolumn survives in some of the fragments. The fragments are housed in a glass case.