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Place Kôm Ishgau, Egypt; the site of Aphrodito Level [40] File

81. Papyrus 1429

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1429
Title:
Tax Register from the Archive of Basilius (P.Lond. IV 1432, TM 39755)
Scope & Content:
Portions of a papyrus codex containing a tax-register, recording payments in kind made by various individuals on account of the grain tax. The fragments mounted in the last frame are unpublished.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
698-728
Extent:

Incomplete folios of a papyrus codex; housed in five glass frames, named Papyrus 1429(Folio 1), Papyrus 1429(Folio 2), Papyrus 1429(Folio 3), Papyrus 1429(Folio 4), and Papyrus 1429(fragments).

82. Papyrus 1434(A)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1434(A)
Title:
List of Names from the Archive of Basilius (P.Lond. IV 1455, TM 39771)
Scope & Content:
Fragment containing a list of names (sailors or labourers), arranged in three columns after the heading; with notarial subscription at the end. The document was the conclusion of a Coptic contract of surety.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
early 8th century
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus roll, broken off at the top and on the right and complete on the other sides; written on one side. The back is blank. On the front, there are two lines as heading, followed by three narrow and short columns; traces of another line are visible at the top. The text runs across the fibres. Left and lower margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

83. Papyrus 1434(B)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1434(B)
Title:
List of Names from the Archive of Basilius (P.Lond. IV 1453, TM 39769)
Scope & Content:
Fragments of a register listing individuals from various places; the other side of one of the fragments gives a total. Fragments in Vienna, published as CPR XXII 56 and 59, may be further fragments of the same register.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
early 8th century
Extent:

Three fragments of a papyrus codex, broken off at the top and on the right and complete on the other sides; two of the fragments are written on one side across the fibres, the other side being blank. The largest fragment bears portions of two columns, the others portions of one column. The fragments are housed in a glass frame.

84. Papyrus 1435

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1435
Title:
Official Order from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1408, TM 19855)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of an order of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to the inhabitants of Pente Pediades, in Aphrodito, to make nails out of the unrefined iron they receive from their pagarch Basilius. The rest of the order is preserved in a fragment now at Heidelberg, inventoried as PSR 15 a.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
September 709
Extent:
Right-hand portion of a papyrus sheet, the left-hand portion of which is now in Heidelberg (PSR 15 a); written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are parts of 14 lines running across the fibres, in Arabic and Greek. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

85. Papyrus 1436

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1436
Title:
Official Order from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1407, SB I 5641, TM 19854)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of an order of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik in Arabic and Greek, addressed to the inhabitants of Aphrodito. The recipients are ordered to pay one thousand artabas of wheat for the grain tax and deliver them to the granaries in Babylon. Dated in July or August 709 AD. The rest of the do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
709
Extent:
Right-hand portion of a papyrus sheet, the left-hand portion of which is now in Heidelberg (PSR 15 b); written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are parts of 15 lines running across the fibres in Arabic and Greek. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

86. Papyrus 1437

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1437
Title:
Official Order from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1410, SB I 5639, TM 19857)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of an order of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik in Arabic and Greek, addressed to the inhabitants of Aphrodito. The recipients are asked to supply four skilled workmen to repair ships in Babylon. Details of the salaries are included. Dated in October or November. The rest of the document i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
709
Extent:
Right-hand portion of a papyrus sheet, further fragments of which are now in Heidelberg (PSR 14 and 19g); written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are parts of 10 lines running across the fibres in Arabic and Greek. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

87. Papyrus 1438

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1438
Title:
Tax Register from the Archive of Basilius (P.Lond. IV 1446, TM 39767)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a tax register, recording male tax-payers and the sums of money paid by each individual; the back refers to payments made by ‘strangers’ (fugitives) who had settled in the Meris of Hagios Victor, in Upper Egypt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
early 8th century
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus roll, broken off at the bottom and left; written on both sides. On the front, there are portions of two columns, the first of which is very fragmentary; the text runs along the fibres. On the back, the top of a column is preserved, written across the fibres after ample blank space on the left. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

88. Papyrus 1442

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1442
Title:
Papryus codex, imperfect, containing tax register from early Arab Egypt (P. Lond. IV 1419)
Scope & Content:
Papyrus codex, imperfect, containing tax register (with entries from Α-Σ) from early Arab Egypt (P. Lond. IV 1419). Primarily in Greek, though most place-names are in Coptic. The original binding and the protocol are preserved. Additional leaves from this codex, containg entries from Φ-Ω, are pre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Coptic and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
716-717
Extent:
33 folios, and a number of fragments, now mounted in glass frames.

89. Papyrus 1444

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1444
Title:
Fragment of a Tax Register from the Archive of Basilius (P.Lond. IV 1475, TM 39787)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a tax assessment (merismos) for public taxes of the hamlet of Keramion, with heading and totals.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
early 8th century
Extent:

Medium-brown papyrus fragment, apparently part of the first or second folio of a codex, broken off on the left and bottom, damaged along the folds; written on one side, the back being blank. The writing on the front runs along the fibres. Ample blank space was left on the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

90. Papyrus 1446

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1446
Title:
Account from the Archive of Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1450, TM 19889)
Scope & Content:
Account concerning the wages of the sailors on the raiding expedition of Egypt on the 8th indiction; at the top, there is the address and summary in Arabic. The account was found with Papyrus 1338 (see P.Lond. IV, p. 377), but sent with Papyrus 1336, where the governor Qurrah ben Sharik orders Ba...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
709-710
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, with surface damage and holes, especially on the right; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 6 lines; margins survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.