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61. Papyrus 1378

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1378
Title:
Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1381, TM 19836)
Scope & Content:
Official letter from the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, concerning the issue of fugitives moving from one pagarchy to another. Basilius does not seem to be doing much about this problem in his pagarchy. The dating clause is lost.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
708-710
Extent:

Fragment from a papyrus roll, written on one side and broken at the top, with one line missing; approximately 10 letters are missing on the right-hand side; well preserved as to the rest. Housed in one glass frame and mounted on cardboard.

62. Papyrus 1379

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1379
Title:
Official Letter of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Fugitives (P.Lond. IV 1382, TM 20487)
Scope & Content:
Letter of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, who is urged to hand over any fugitives who may be in his administrative district as they should return to their respective pagarchies. There will be consequences should he fail to do so. P.Georg.Ross. IV 1 preserves the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2 April 710
Extent:
Left-hand half of a papyrus roll, darker in places; broken off at the top; Writing runs on one side across the fibres. The front bears 32 lines written across the fibres. Left and lower magins are extant. The right-hand portion of the same papyrus alongside two other fragments from the top are now at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and have been published as P. Ross.Georg. IV 1. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

63. Papyrus 1380

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1380
Title:
Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1383, TM 19837)
Scope & Content:
Official letter from the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, concerning fugitives of the Arsinoite, Herakleopolite and Oxyrhynchite nomes. Basilius is to select two men, who will be responsible for those fugitives who have been caught; apparently, they will also have to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
708-710
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus roll, damaged throughout, broken at the bottom and lacking the left-hand side of the text; with docket on the verso. Housed in one glass frame and mounted on cardboard, with the exception of the part of the verso bearing writing.

64. Papyrus 1381

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1381
Title:
Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1384, TM 19838)
Scope & Content:
End of an official letter from the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, regarding fugitives and their punishment. Heavy fines are to be inflicted not only on the offenders themselves in addition to lashes, but also on those who sheltered them and on local officials. The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
708-710
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus roll, containing lines 49-61 of a document the beginning of which is to be found in Papyrus 1382. Written on one side and lacking the end of each line; mounted on cardboard in one glass case.

65. Papyrus 1382

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1382
Title:
Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1384, TM 19838)
Scope & Content:
Official letter from the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, regarding fugitives and their punishment. Heavy fines are to be inflicted not only on the offenders themselves in addition to lashes, but also on those who sheltered them and on local officials. The papyrus co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
708-710
Extent:

Long fragment of a papyrus roll, containing lines 1-48 of a document the continuation of which is to be found in Papyrus 1381. Written on one side, broken at the top and lacking the end of each line. Mounted on cardboard in one glass frame.

66. Papyrus 1384

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1384
Title:
Letter of Qurrah ibn Sharik to Basilios Pagarches of Aphrodito (P. Lond. IV 1391, P. Ross. Georg. IV 6, TM 20491)
Scope & Content:
Recto: Letter of Qurrah ibn Sharik to Basilios Pagarches of Aphrodito ordering the recruitment of youths to be trained as ship carpenters and caulkers. The right hand side of the sheet is now kept at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg (inv. 13333f) Verso: Endorsement (Qurrah ibn Sharik...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
710
Extent:
Left half a long papyrus sheet, mounted in a glass case.

67. Papyrus 1405

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1405
Title:
Miscellaneous Accounts (P.Lond. IV 1416A-G, TM 19861-19867)
Scope & Content:
Recto: - End of a column containing figures and followed by blank space; - (P.Lond. 1416A = TM 19863) Account concerning money taxes, of which the last lines and the total are lost. There is one introductory line under which several columns are arranged, mentioning names of places and various ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
732-733
Extent:

Long fragment of a papyrus roll, not fully preserved, written on both sides; on the verso, the texts are parallel partly to the length of the roll and partly to its breadth; an additional detached fragment has writing on the recto only. Housed in one glass frame.

68. Papyrus 1409

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1409
Title:
Register of Taxes (P.Lond. IV 1414, TM 39747)
Scope & Content:
Register of taxes paid in money and kind, arranged on the basis of places: after the epoikia, monasteries are also mentioned. Taxes are both ordinary and extraordinary. Fol. 1r.-1v.: Small piece with no writing; Fol. 2r.: Taxes from Aphrodito: single taxes with deductions, quota and balance; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
8th century
Extent:

Book of 14 wide folios, consisting of several fragments of various sizes; none of them is complete, and of the first only a small fragment with no writing survives. Folios 3 to 14 were mounted in separate glass frames; the fragments of folios 1 and 2 were framed together. The unwritten fragment of folio 1 is attached to the left-hand side of the larger fragment of folio 2; two additional fragments of folio 2 were acquired in 1926. Corrections are added in the interlinear space, and sometimes old figures are also underlined.

69. Papyrus 1430

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1430
Title:
Miscellaneous Accounts Concerning Naval Stores and Sailors (P.Lond. IV 1449, TM 19888; CPR III.I.2 11, TM 463877)
Scope & Content:
Recto: Column 1a: Arabic (CPR III.I.2 11). Column 1: beginning of the whole account, with a list of sailors requisitioned for various services; Column 2: continuation of column 1 recto, written in the same ink as column 3 verso; Column 3: account of provision for the fleet, written in the sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
after 26 May 711
Extent:

Fragments forming a continuous, yet incomplete papyrus roll folded; written on both sides in an uncertain order, with ink of varying intensity; one additional detached fragment, which, according to the editor, may not belong to this document.

70. 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.