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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Papyrus 1-3136 Name Tiberius Claudius Pasion, strategus of the Oxyrhynchite nome, 1st half of 1st century Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable)

1. Papyrus 746

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 746
Title:
Report of a Lawsuit on the Identification of a Child (P.Oxy. I 37, P.Lond. III 746 descr., Chrest.Mitt. 79, TM 20699)
Scope & Content:
Extract from the official minutes of the strategus Tiberius Claudius Pasion with the report on a court case concerning the identification of a child. Aristocles, advocate of Pesouris, reports that his client had picked up an infant, Heraclas, from the rubbish heap, and had hired Saraeus as a wet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
29 March 49
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, incomplete and with detached fragments, damaged in its lower half; writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The text comprises two columns of 26 and 10 lines respectively. The intercolumn measures 20-25 mm. Margins partly survive, the left (65 mm) and right being somewhat mutilated. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy I. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

2. Papyrus 796

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 796
Title:
Petition on Extortion by a Tax Collector (P.Oxy. II 285 ro., P.Lond. III 796 descr., TM 20556), and Writing Exercise (P.Oxy. II 285 vo., P.Lond. III 796 descr., TM 63122, LDAB 4326, MP3 2748)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Oxy. II 285 ro., P.Lond. III 796 descr., TM 20556): Petition to Tiberius Claudius Pasion, strategus of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Sarapion, a weaver of Oxyrhynchus, who complains about the extortion and violence of Apollophanes, an ex-tax collector. Apollophanes had seized from Sarapio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, almost complete, only torn at the top right edge; with writing on both sides, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The front contains one column of 21 lines. The lower margin hosts three additional lines in a different hand, the last line being separated by some blank space from the other two. The text is occasionally rubbed. All margins are extant, with no margin to the right. The second hand of the front also wrote three lines on the back of the sheet: one line runs along the upper edge, and two lines are written the other way up at the bottom. There are modern annotations on both sides, with the number in red referring to the publication in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

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