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Papyrus 1309
- Record Id:
- 040-002104491
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000313
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465018.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1309
- Title:
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Order of Arrest (P.Lond. III 1309, TM 38314)
- Scope & Content:
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Order from the comes Gerontius to the local peace-keeping officials (eirenarchs) of the village of Ares to secure the murderers of a rural guard (agrophylax).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104491 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1309 : Order of Arrest (P.Lond. III 1309, TM 38314) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1157]/040-002104491
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Small papyrus slip, complete and well preserved, somewhat torn in the lower right edge and with few small insect holes in places; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. There are 4 lines, complete; margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465018.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0699
- Date Range:
- 6th century-7th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 59 x 305 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 110 x 360 mm.
Script: Thin, sloping cursive hand, neat and regular.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising papyri 1200-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 1309
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 444.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. 251, no. 1309.
U. Hagedorn, ‘Das Formular der Überstellungsbefehle im römischen Ägypten’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 161/2 (1979), pp. 61-74 (p. 72).
K. A. Worp, ‘Yet Another Order To Arrest: P.Cair. Inv. No. 10539’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 84 (1990), pp. 207–210 (p. 207).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 144.
J.-U. Krause, Gefängnisse im Römischen Reich (Stuttgart: F. Steiner 1996), pp. 35, 96.
C. Drecoll, Die Liturgien im römischen Kaiserreich des 3. und 4. Jh. n. Chr: Untersuchung über Zugang, Inhalt und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der öffentlichen Zwangsdienste in Ägypten und anderen Provinzen (Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag 1997), pp. 162, 170.
R. P. Salomons, P. Cair. Preis.2 (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 35) (Bruxelles: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth 2014), p. 20, no. 125.
S. Torallas Tovar, ‘Violence in the Process of Arrest and Imprisonment in Late Antique Egypt’, in H. A. Drake (ed.), Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices (London: Routledge 2016), pp. 101-110 (p. 103, n. 9).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)