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1731. Papyrus 1374

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1374
Title:
Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1378, TM 19833)
Scope & Content:
Official letter from the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, concerning a requisition for palm wood. The trunks that Basilius has to send to Babylon must be 10 and 12 cubits long and are to be used for the palace at Fustat, which is being built by the river under the su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
8 May 710
Extent:

Joining fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, with small gaps in the left-hand lower part which do not affect the text, and a larger lacuna affecting most of lines 2-4. With Arabic writing in line 1 and docket on the verso in two lines.

1732. Papyrus 1375

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1375
Title:
Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1379, TM 19834)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of an official letter from the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito: Basilius is ordered to send six solidi for the supply of three men who are employed in the building of a barn in Fustat. Dated to the 9th indiction, Pauni 1.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
26 May 710
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus roll, broken at the bottom and with a few letters missing mostly on the left-hand side; with the docket on the verso, one line being written the other way up.

1733. 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.

1734. 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.

1735. Papyrus 1389

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1389
Title:
Official Letter of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Tax Arrears (P.Lond. IV 1397, TM 19846)
Scope & Content:
Conclusion of a letter of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, concerning arrears of taxes. A list with the amounts due is given at the end; expenses for the fleet at Klysma and for craftsmen working at the mosque of Damascus are included.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
c. 709
Extent:

Medium-brown papyrus, broken off at the top and right, complete at the bottom and left; with minor surface damage along the horizontal folds; bearing writing on one side; the back is blank. On the front there are 8 lines written across the fibres, lacking the ends. Lower and right margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1736. Papyrus 1717(A-B)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1717(A-B)
Title:
Order to Pay (P.Lond. V 1802, TM 36954), and Lease (P.Lond. V 1877 descr., TM 36982)
Scope & Content:
Upper papyrus (A) (P.Lond. V 1802, TM 36954): Order from the tribune Iob to Andreas, son of Georgius, to pay 5,000 talents as rent of a courtyard, signed by Demeas. Dated 19 June, 10th indiction. Lower papyrus (B) (P.Lond. V 1877 descr., TM 36982): Fragmentary acknowledgment of a lease of part ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
6th century
Extent:

Two papyrus sheets that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.

Upper papyrus (A): Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete, with some damage in places; written on one side. The front bears 7 lines running across the fibres; the back may have been used for writing, later washed off. Folding lines are still visible.

Lower papyrus (B): Medium-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom and top, complete on the sides, damaged by insect-holes; written on both sides. The front bears portions of 11 lines running along the fibres; side margins are minimal. The back contains one fragmentary line written along the fibres.

1737. Papyrus 2319(A-B)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2319(A-B)
Title:
Letters from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1970, TM 1533; P.Lond. VII 2068, TM 1629)
Scope & Content:
Left fragment (A) (P.Lond. VII 1970, TM 1533): Fragment of a letter, of which little remains. Dated between 25 November and 24 December (Phaophi) 255 BC. Right fragment (B) (P.Lond. VII 2068, TM 1629): Fragment of a letter presumably addressed to Zenon (the name of the recipient is partly lost)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
263-229 BC
Extent:

Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, written on one side, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.

Left fragment (A): Portions of 4 lines running across the fibres, lacking beginnings and ends; with ample lower margin.

Right fragment (B): Portions of 4 lines running across the fibres, with lines 1-3 lacking beginnings and ends; with lower margin. Horizontal folds still visible.

1738. Papyrus 2444

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2444
Title:
On the History of Sicyon (P.Oxy. XI 1365, P.Lond.Lit. 111, TM 59307, LDAB 404, MP3 2181)
Scope & Content:
Two columns from a work ‘On the History of Sicyon’, attributed to various authors (Aristotle, Ephorus or Menaechmus), concerning the origin and rise of Orthagoras, tyrant of Sicyon in the seventh century BC. The text refers to his childhood and education, his role as a patrol and then polemarch,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:

Papyrus fragment, broken off at the sides and damaged at the top and bottom. The papyrus has darker spots, and the surface is damaged and abraded throughout. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Portions of two columns are preserved, each of 35 lines; each line contained between 13 and 18 letters. The upper and lower margins survive to 60 mm and 72 mm respectively. The intercolumnar space measures 20-23 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

1739. Papyrus 2756

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2756
Title:
Accounts from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1974, TM 1537, and P.Zen.Dem. 121, TM 2318)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a papyrus roll additional fragments of which are now at Columbia Univeristy and at the Istituto Papirologico ‘G. Vitelli’, Florence. Recto (TM 1537): Greek account for bricks supplied for building works at Philadelpheia under the superintendence of Zenon over various months. Verso ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
254 BC
Extent:

Portion of a medium-brown papyrus roll with two detached scraps, additional fragments of which are now at Columbia University, New York, inventoried as P. 5, and at the Istituto Papirologico ‘G. Vitelli’, Florence, under the inventory 3038. The writing is on both sides. On the front, there are two columns written along the fibres, broken off at the top; lower and right margins are extant; one line is written in the right margin, being the endorsement of the text on the back. Two sheet-joins are visible. The Columbia portion preserves another column which precedes those of the BL papyrus and the beginnings of lines 16-25 of the first column of the BL portion. The portion in Florence is still unpublished. On the back, there are several columns in Demotic, written against the fibres upside down in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1740. Papyrus 3058-3059

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 3058-3059
Title:
Application for the Privileges of Dionysiac Artists and Supporting Documentation (P.Oxy. XXVII 2475, TM 17009, P.Oxy. XXVII 2476, Pap.Agon. 3, TM 17010)
Scope & Content:
Documents from the same ‘pasted roll’ (tomos synkollesimos) as Papyrus 3060, concerning privileges of Dionysiac athletes. Papyrus 3059(1) Column 1 (= Papyrus 3058, P.Oxy. XXVII 2475, TM 17009): A portion of a letter, of which only the ends of lines survive, presumably addressed to the senate of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
288
Extent:
Fragmentary sheets with detached fragments from the same ‘pasted roll’ (tomos synkollesimos) as Papyrus 3060 (P.Oxy. XXVII 2477). Written on one side along the fibres, the text being damaged by wormholes and gaps. Housed in two glass cases, named Papyrus 3059 (1), which also includes Papyrus 3058, and Papyrus 3059 (2). The sheet housed in the first frame preserves the right-hand side of a column, which is Papyrus 3058; a second column, which has beta as a heading letter, is part of Papyrus 3059. Inside the frame letters A and B are used in order to differentiate the texts. The second sheet contains one broad column, which is the continuation of Papyrus 3059, with gamma as a heading letter.

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