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Papyrus 156
- Record Id:
- 040-002104537
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000340
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123041.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 156
- Title:
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List of Tax Payments (P.Lond. II 156, TM 11631)
- Scope & Content:
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A list headed ‘Year 16, Tybi 30’, divided into sections and arranged in two columns. Each entry consists of names of persons with patronymics in most cases, followed by sums stated in drachmas. The sums range from 4 to 48 (usually 8 or 12); the total is given at the end. On the back there is the endorsement, with the second line written the other way up in relation to the first.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104537 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 156 : List of Tax Payments (P.Lond. II 156, TM 11631) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0075]/040-002104537
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete but damaged along the folding lines, with wormholes of varying size and abrasion in places. Writing runs along the fibres on either side: on the front there are two columns of 40 and 26 lines respectively; the last two lines of the second column are separated by blank space from the other lines and are indented. The back has two lines with further traces of ink: the second line is written upside down in relation to the first. There are dark spots. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123041.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0208
- End Date:
- 0208
- Date Range:
- 26 January 208
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 244 x 163 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 295 x 205 mm.
Script: Cursive hand, slight inclined; occasionally uneven and with a tendency for letters to become smaller and more compressed towards the end of the columns. Same hand as SB XIV 11715, Stud.Pal. XXII 179 and 180.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 139-176 from the Reverend Greville John Chester (b. 1830, d. 1892) on 2 February 1891.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 156
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 399.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 249-251, no. 156.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 266.
D. Hobson, ‘The Village of Heraklia in the Arsinoite Nome’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985), pp. 101-115 (p. 105, and passim).
D. Hobson. ‘The Inhabitants of Heraklia’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 23 (1986), pp. 99-123 (p. 115).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), pp. 81-82.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 174.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 109.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)