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21. Papyrus 136

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 136
Title:
Accounts (Unpublished) and Verses from Homer’s Iliad III-IV (P.Lond.Lit. 11, TM 60829, LDAB 1957, MP3 697)
Scope & Content:
Recto: Fragments of unpublished accounts of the time of Augustus arranged in several columns, with names of persons, sums of money, stated in drachmas, or of wheat, stated in artabas; damaged throughout. The last sheet was not part of the original roll. Verso: Homer’s Iliad (P.Lond.Lit. 11, TM ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century
Extent:

Fragments of various sizes from a papyrus roll, written on both sides and housed in three glass frames; the final sheet presumably did not belong to the original roll and was added later.

22. Papyrus 260

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 260
Title:
Official Register (Stud. Pal. IV, pp. 58-83, TM 14986) and Demotic Accounts (P.Lond. II 260v. descr., TM 90844)
Scope & Content:
Recto Parts of the official returns written by Heraclides, amphodarch of the quarter of Apollonios’ Camp in Arsinoe, of which further portions are to be found in Papyrus 261 and P.Vindob. G 19976. The full text comprises 45 surviving columns with lists of inhabitants of the quarter liable to va...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
ca. 73
Extent:

Two large fragments from a papyrus roll, written on both sides in Greek and Demotic, and housed in two glass frames; on the recto, 13 columns in Greek are preserved, although only a few traces of the last survive. Occasionally we see Demotic text written above the Greek one as well as in the blank space of the recto. The verso bears Demotic writing. The recto of the papyrus contains lines 507-703 of the same document of which further portions are to be found in Papyrus 261 and P.Vindob. G 19976.

23. Papyrus 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 261
Title:
Official Register (Stud. Pal. IV, pp. 58-83, TM 14986) and Demotic Accounts (P.Lond. II 261v. descr., TM 90844)
Scope & Content:
Parts of the official returns written by Heraclides, amphodarch of the quarter of Apollonios’ Camp in Arsinoe, of which further portions are to be found in Papyrus 260 and P.Vindob. G 19976. These are lists, drawn up by the same hand, of inhabitants of the quarter liable to various taxes; 45 col...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
ca. 73
Extent:

Fragments of various sizes from a papyrus roll, written on both sides in Greek and Demotic, and housed in two glass frames; imperfect at both ends and damaged throughout; on the recto, 19 columns in Greek are preserved, although only a few traces of the last remain. Occasionally we see Demotic text written above the Greek one as well as added in the blank space of the recto. The verso bears Demotic writing. The recto of the papyrus contains lines 1-278 of the document of which further portions are to be found in Papyrus 260 and in P.Vindob. G. 19976.

24. Papyrus 267

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 267
Title:
Register of Land (P.Lond. II 267, TM 11662) and Demotic Text (P.Lond. II 267 vo. descr., TM 105767)
Scope & Content:
Recto (TM 11662): Register of land for taxation arranged in twenty columns, not fully preserved, with traces of an additional one. For each entry geographical details in relation to the field described before are provided; then is given its extent and rate of taxation, followed by names of pers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
114 (after 2 April)
Extent:

Two large fragments of a papyrus roll, written on both sides, in Greek on the recto and in Demotic on the verso; damaged by worm holes and lacking both beginning and end; housed in two glass frames.

25. Papyrus 271

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 271
Title:
Homer, Odyssey III (P.Lond.Lit. 30, TM 60262, LDAB 1382, MP3 1039)
Scope & Content:
The fragments contain lines from Homer’s Odyssey III with scholia from Ammonius, Apion, Zenodotus, Herodorus or Erotianus. Papyrus 271(1) Left fragment, Column 1: Odyssey III 283-293, with scholia; Left fragment, Column 2: Odyssey III 319-327, with scholia; Right fragment: Odyssey III 387-40...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century
Extent:
Fragments from a light-coloured papyrus roll of high quality, written on one side along the fibres; each column would have contained between 34 and 36 lines measuring 20.5 x 16.7 cm; the upper margin survives to 6 cm in Papyrus 271 (1), the lower margin survives to 7 cm in Papyrus 271(2). The roll would have been approximately 7 m long if it contained the first three books of the Odyssey, as the end-title suggests. Two hands are present. Mounted on cardboard in two glass cases. Further fragments from the same papyrus roll have been identified in the Vienna Collection and published as P.Sijp. 3.

26. Papyrus 1157

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1157
Title:
Miscellany of Documents (SB XXII 15468, TM 79047, P.Lond. III 1157r, TM 22804, P.Lond. 1157v, TM 22807-22809)
Scope & Content:
Recto: Papyrus 1157 (1): Column 1 (SB XXII 15468, TM 79047): Census declaration lacking the left-hand side, with approximately 8-10 letters missing. The declarant is Harendotes, priest of the temple of Athena in the village of Alabastrine, aged 57; he registers himself and two boys aged 6 and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century-3rd century
Extent:

Two fragments of different sizes from a papyrus roll, the second of which is damaged throughout; written on both sides and arranged in several columns, written by different hands.

27. Papyrus 1170

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1170
Title:
Tax Register (P.Lond. III 1170, TM 11761) and Account of Heroninus (P.Lond. III 1170 verso, TM 11762)
Scope & Content:
Recto: Register of revenue compiled by an unnamed strategus for his successor Iulius Isidorus, arranged in 18 columns numbered as 76-93; originally the roll must have been much bigger. The register contains a list of tax-payers with the respective payments in money, arranged alphabetically unde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
144 and 259
Extent:

Two large fragments written on both sides and housed in separate glass frames named Papyrus 1170 (1) and Papyrus 1170 (2).

Papyrus 1170 (1) recto: Seven columns written along the fibres, and traces of another column on the left-hand side;

Papyrus 1170 (2) recto: Continuation of Papyrus 1170 (1) recto, with eleven columns;

Papyrus 1170 (2) verso: Nine columns written across the fibres;

Papyrus 1170 (1) verso: Continuation of Papyrus 1170 (2) verso, with seven columns in poor condition, being columns 1, 3, 5-7 very damaged.

28. Papyrus 1177

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1177
Title:
Accounts on the Water Supply of a Metropolis (SB XXVI 16652, TM 11763) and Other Accounts (P.Lond. III 1177v. descr., TM 29258)
Scope & Content:
Recto Papyrus 1177(1), Columns 1-2 (column 1 only having a few traces): Remains of an account with sums stated in drachmas, with the total at the end and rough notes in a different hand. Papyrus 1177(1), Column 3: Further accounts in a fast cursive hand, also found throughout the recto, in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
113
Extent:

Sheets from a papyrus roll, overall well preserved with the exception of the end, which is damaged; written on both sides and preserving several columns. Housed in three glass frames.

29. Papyrus 1785

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1785
Title:
Receipt for Repayment of Money (P.Lond. V 1717, TM 19733) and Metrological Tables and Problems (P.Lond. V 1718, TM 65048, LDAB 6289, MP3 354)
Scope & Content:
Recto: Receipt for the repayment of a debt of money, given by a woman whose name is lost, accompanied by two people, Calotychus, son of Stephanus, and Theodosia, daughter of Ioannes; with subscriptions at the end. The document was written in Antinoopolis. The fragments preserve the left-hand sid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half 6th century
Extent:

Three fragments of a papyrus roll of various sizes, housed in two glass frames; written on both sides and preserving further portions of the texts contained in Papyrus 1667.

- 1785 (1) Ro: the lower fragment, wrongly placed at the bottom, contains the beginning of the first six lines of the document; after one line in lacuna, the top fragment contains the beginning of the following 7 lines, with only a few traces for line 7;

- 1785 (2) Ro: beginning of the remaining lines of the document. The ending of the lines is to be found in Papyrus 1667, but the mid strip of the papyrus is missing. The text on the recto is also broken at the top and bottom.

- 1785 (1) Vo: the fragment on the right-hand side, misplaced in the frame, contains lines 1-7 of column 1; the fragment on the left-hand side contains the endings of those lines of column 1 and the beginning of the first seven lines of column 2;

- 1785 (2) Vo: endings of the first lines of column 2 and the first lines of columns 3-6. The continuation of columns 1-4 is to be found in Papyrus 1667, but the mid portions of the columns between Papyrus 1785 and 1667 are lost.

30. Papyrus 1843

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1843
Title:
Land-Survey Register (P.Oxy. VI 918, TM 28335) and ‘Hellenica Oxyrhynchia’ (P.Oxy. V 842, TM 59483, LDAB 583, MP3 2189)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Oxy. VI 918, TM 28335): Land-survey register, arranged in several columns, some of which very damaged, and containing a list of plots of crown land in an unspecified village located in the south-west of the Arsinoite nome, near Ibion Argaiou. Individual holdings are grouped in larger pl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century-3rd century
Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a long papyrus roll, written on both sides and damaged throughout; originally consisting of approximately 230 fragments, some of which remain unplaced (those numbered as 16-72 and those unnumbered, housed in frame 4; fr. 65 does not belong here); housed in four glass frames, named Papyrus 1843(1), Papyrus 1843(2), Papyrus 1843(3), and Papyrus 1843(4).