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Project / Collection Papyri Collections Archive Reference (shelfmark) Papyrus 1-3136 Name Apollos, protokometes, Egypt, 6th century

1. Papyrus 1547

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1547
Title:
Agreement concerning Taxes (P.Lond. V 1661, TM 19678)
Scope & Content:
Agreement addressed to the pagarchs Flavius Iulianus and Menas, through the headmen (protokometai) Flavius Dioscorus and Flavius Apollos, from Aurelius Pesalous, son of Isidorus and Maria, and Aurelius Menas, son of Hermauos and Tsone, tax-collectors (apaitetai) of Aphrodito. The tax-collectors a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
24 July 553
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, complete; with some surface damage and abrasion in places; written on both sides. On the front, there are 29 lines written along the fibres, complete; all margins are extant. A crease is visible from top to bottom towards the right, which the scribe tended to avoid in writing. On the back, two lines run along the fibres at the top. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

2. Papyrus 1642

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1642
Title:
Agreement concerning Taxes (?) (P.Lond. V 1662, TM 36915)
Scope & Content:
Aurelius Apollos and Aurelius Abraam acknowledge a debt, presumably in respect of taxes, to be collected by them; with subscriptions of the parties, and of Theodosius, who acted as a witness and wrote the body of the document as well. The detached fragments come from other documents.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st half of 6th century
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, dark-brown, lacking the upper left corner and with a vertical break; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 25 lines, with lines 1-12 lacking two-thirds at the beginning. Margins survive. The two detached narrow strips at the top do not belong to the same papyrus; they bear writing on one side only, and preserve a few letters. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

3. Papyrus 1649

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1649
Title:
Letter from the Archive of Dioscorus (P.Lond. V 1681, ΤΜ 19699)
Scope & Content:
A letter addressed to Apollos from an unknown sender, who is complaining of the illegalities of a recently appointed village head (protokometes). On the back there is one-line docket. The text belongs to the archive of Dioscorus.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
524-547
Extent:

Dark-brown papyrus sheet, which was folded from bottom to top; written on both sides, the back only having one line running along the fibres. The front, written across the fibres, is broken off at the left, but has right, top and bottom margins extant. The papyrus is housed in one glass case.

4. Papyrus 1779

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1779
Title:
Letter to the Village Headman (protokometes) Apollos from an Official of Menas, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. V 1684, TM 19702)
Scope & Content:
A letter from one of the officials of Menas, the chief administrator of a city (pagarch), addressed to the village headman (protokometes) Apollos. Reference is made to a certain Demosthenes, described as most glorious (endoxotatos).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
29 August 566-567
Extent:
Broad sheet of papyrus, folded from the bottom upwards and possibly from each side towards the middle. Incomplete at the bottom-right side, where two small fragments, which do not directly join the major one, are still preserved. Written across the fibres, with a docket on the verso written along the fibers occupying. Mounted in glass.