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Papyrus 214
- Record Id:
- 040-002104595
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00038c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123913.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 214
- Title:
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Official Letter (P.Lond. II 214, Chrest.Wilck. 177, TM 19972)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter to the strategus Aurelius Besarion from the administrator Aurelius Aretion, of Memphis, who reports on the cutting and stealing of two large acacia trees from an imperial plantation by a certain Patalas, ship-builder.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104595 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 214 : Official Letter (P.Lond. II 214, Chrest.Wilck. 177, TM 19972) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0133]/040-002104595
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, mutilated throughout, with a detached scrap that bears traces of ink. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Parts of the upper, lower and left margins survive; no margin was left at the right. A sheet-join running across the fibres is visible at c.3 mm from the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123913.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0272
- End Date:
- 0275
- Date Range:
- 272-275
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 183 x 86 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 230 x 140 mm.
Script: Fluent and neat sloping cursive hand of medium size, somewhat uneven.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Memphis, Egypt.
Provenance: Memphis, Egypt. Presented by Colonel John Evans (b. 1823, d. 1908) as part of a lot comprising Papyri 211-215 on 17 November 1891.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 177
P.Lond. II 214 - 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. 411.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 161-162, no. 214.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, ‘Corrections to Kenyon's Catalogue of Brit. Mus. Papyri (II.)’, The Classical Review 12 (1898), pp. 434-436 (no. 9).
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 122-177 (p. 154).
L. Mitteis, Römisches Privatrecht bis auf die Zeit Diokletians bis auf die Zeit Diokletians. Erster Band: Grundbegriffe und Lehre von den Juristischen Personen (Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1908), p. 369, n. 55.
M. I. Rostovtzeff, Studien zur Geschichte des römischen Kolonates (Leipzig-Berlin: B.G. Teubner 1910), pp. 120, 130.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 208-209, no. 177.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 256.
R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1993), p. 82.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 110.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)