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Papyrus 171
- Record Id:
- 040-002104552
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000361
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123178.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 171
- Title:
- Tax Receipt (P.Lond. II 171a, TM 11639), and Request to Open a Will (P.Lond. II 171b, Chrest.Mitt. 309, TM 31210)
- Scope & Content:
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Left papyrus (P.Lond. II 171a, TM 11639): Receipt issued by Horion, tax collector in Soknopaiou Nesos, acknowledging that Apynchis has paid 36 drachmas on a parcel of land. Dated to 21 March 102.
Right papyrus (P.Lond. II 171b, Chrest.Mitt. 309, TM 31210): A third-century request to the strategus of the Heracleopolite nome Aurelius Rhesus from Antonia Nemesilla, daughter of a veteran and landowner, acting without guardian. Her husband Serenus, a soldier, had gone to the Thebaid on assignment and had died. Nemesilla is now asking that Serenus’ will may be opened in Rhesus' presence.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104552 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 171 : Tax Receipt (P.Lond. II 171a, TM 11639), and Request to Open a Will (P.Lond. II 171b, Chrest.Mitt. 309, TM 31210) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0090]/040-002104552
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Two papyrus sheets that do not belong together, mounted on cardboard in the same frame.
Left papyrus (A): Almost complete, lacking part of its left half and with occasional surface damage; writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are 10 lines, the last two of which lack the beginning; the text occupies slightly more than a third of the sheet. All margins are extant, the side being minimal; the blank space at the bottom measures 110 mm. Small holes are located along the vertical folds.
Right papyrus (B): Incomplete, broken off at the bottom, and lacking part of the upper left portion; dark-stained in the upper half. The text runs along the fibres, the back being blank; there are 23 lines, the last of which only has traces; the last two lines are separated from the rest of the text by some blank space. The lower margin is lost, part of the upper margin is preserved.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123178.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 2nd century-3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 174 x 65 mm; B: 167 x 82 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 225 x 190 mm.
Script: A-B: two cursive hands, that of A of small size, that of B of medium size, very neat.
- Custodial History:
- Origin: A: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. B: Phebicis, Heracleopolite nome, Egypt.Provenance: A: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. B: Heracleopolite nome, Egypt. Both papyri were 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:
- Chrest.Mitt. 309
P.Lond. II 171a
P.Lond. II 171b - 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. 402.
A:
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. 102, no. 171a.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 251.
S. LR. Wallace, Taxation in Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press 1938), pp. 25, 366 n. 17.
B:
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 175-176, no. 171b.
U. Wilcken, ‘Neue Nachträge zu P. Lond. II’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 3 (1906), pp. 232-246 (p. 242).
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 353, no. 309.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 258.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Die ХΩΡΙΣ ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ХΡНΜАТΙΖОΥΣАΙ ΔΙΚАΙΩ ТΕΚΝΩΝ in den Papyri’, Aegyptus 45 (1965), pp. 171-189 (p. 185).
M. Amelotti, Il testamento romano attraverso la prassi documentale I (le forme classiche di testamento) (Firenze: Le Monnier 1966), p. 276, no. 16.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 174.
J. G. Keenan, J. G. Manning, U. Yiftach-Firanko (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 129, no. 3.3.3a.
M. Nowak, Wills in the Roman Empire. A Documentary Approach. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement 23 (2015), p. 83.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)