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Papyrus 195(A-B)

Record Id:

040-002104576

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000379

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 195(A-B)

Title:

Land Register (P.Lond. II 195 recto, TM 25496), and Accounts (P.Lond. II 195 verso descr., TM 91817)

Scope & Content:

Recto (TM 25496): First-century register of money taxes on various estates, with details of taxation incident on each type of parcel forming the estates. The land category is vineyard, but it includes garden land as well. Of the estates mentioned, one belongs to Marcus Antonius Pallas.

Verso (TM 91817): Second-century private accounts arranged in irregular columns; unpublished.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104576

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 195(A-B) : Land Register (P.Lond. II 195 recto, TM 25496), and Accounts (P.Lond. II 195 verso descr., TM 91817)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0114]/040-002104576

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Two fragments from the same papyrus roll, bearing writing on both sides, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back; housed in two glass cases named Papyrus 195(A) and Papyrus 195(B).

Papyrus 195(A): Sheet of papyrus, imperfect at the top, and damaged by few small insect holes; occasionally stained and abraded on the back. The front preserves one column, with few letters of a preceding one; the text on the back is arranged in irregular columns of different lengths.

Papyrus 195(B): Fragment broken off at the top and left, with some surface damage; on the front there is one column lacking the beginning and traces of a second column; the lower margin is extant. On the back there are portions of few lines, with the blank space at the bottom measuring 100 mm.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0060

End Date:

0199

Date Range:

Late 1st century-2nd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: A: 263 x 188 mm; B: 165 x 172 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 320 x 240 mm.

Script: Recto: Good-sized cursive hand; different hand, smaller and very cursive, in Papyrus 195(A), lines 1-2. Verso: Rough cursive hand with a slight slant to the right.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 177-208 from L. Paul Philip on 26 March 1891.

Former External References:

P.Lond. II 195 recto
P.Lond. II 195 verso descr.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 407.

Recto

Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 127-128, no. 195 recto.

A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), pp. 521-522, no. 318.

M. I. Rostovtzeff, Studien zur Geschichte des römischen Kolonates (Leipzig-Berlin: B.G. Teubner 1910), pp.

Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester II. Documents of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods (Manchester: University Press 1915), pp. 243-247, 254-257.

A. Tomsin, ‘Notes sur les ousiai de l'époque romaine’, in Studi in onore di A. Calderini e R. Paribeni II (Milano: Ceschina 1957), pp. 211-224 (p. 221)

A. Tomsin, ‘Les continuités historiques dans le cadre des mesures prises par les Romains’, in Actes du Xe Congrès international de papyrologues, Varsovie-Cracovie, 3-9 septembre 1961 (Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich 1964), pp. 81-95 (p. 89).

D. Foraboschi, ‘L’ousia Severiana. Una tenuta “privata” romana in Egitto’, Chronique d'Égypte 42 (1967), pp. 172-176.

A. Tomsin, ‘L'ousia de Pallas dans P. Lond. 195, 15-19 (vol. II, p. 127)’, Chronique d'Égypte 46 (1971), pp. 352-355.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 61.

G. M. Parassoglou, Imperial estates in Roman Egypt. American Studies in Papyrology 18 (1978), pp. 21, 23-24.

M. I. Rostovtseff, J. Andreau (ed.), Histoire économique et sociale de l'Empire romain (Paris: R. Laffont 1989), pp. 541-542.

L. Rossi, ‘Romans and Land Property Rights in Ptolemaic Egypt. The Identification of Lucius Septimius’, Ancient Society 44 (2014), pp. 127-147.

Verso

Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. xviii, no. 195 verso descr.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Marcus Antonius Pallas, 1st century