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Papyrus 232
- Record Id:
- 040-002104605
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000394
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124107.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 232
- Title:
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Letter of Clematius to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 33, P.Lond. II 232, TM 10030)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter from Clematius to Abinnaeus, asking that Ision, officer in the troops under Abinnaeus’ command, be granted leave to attend to Clematius’ affairs, which are not better specified. The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104605 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 232 : Letter of Clematius to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 33, P.Lond. II 232, TM 10030) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0697]/040-002104605
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fully preserved papyrus sheet, light-brown. Writing runs along the fibres on both sides, the back having a two-line docket. All margins are extant and all lines are fully preserved. Housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124107.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0346
- End Date:
- 0346
- Date Range:
- c. 346
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 280 x 307 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 330 x 345 mm.
Script: Large cursive hand, slanting to the right. Second hand in the last three lines of the recto, smaller and more cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, or Dionysias, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 229-255 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 14 January 1893.
- Former External References:
- P.Abinn. 33
P.Lond. II 232 - 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. 413.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 296-297, no. 232, with pl. 100.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, ‘Corrections to Kenyon's Catalogue of Brit. Mus. Papyri (II.)’, The Classical Review 12 (1898), pp. 434-436 (p. 436).
W. Schubart, Ein Jahrtausend am Nil. Briefe aus dem Altertum (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchandlung 1912), p. 92, and Ein Jahrtausend am Nil. Briefe aus dem Altertum (Berlin: Weidmann 1923), p. 93.
H. I. Bell, V. Martin, E. G. Turner, D. van Berchem, The Abinnaeus Archive. Papers of a Roman Officer in the Reign of Constantius II (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1962), pp. 84-85, no. 33.
C. Vandersleyen, ‘Reviewed Work: The Abinnaeus Archive. Papers of a Roman Officer in the Reign of Constantius II by H. I. Bell, V. Martin, E. G. Turner, D. van Berchem’, Latomus 22 (1963), pp. 887-890 (p. 888).
A. H. M. Jones, The later Roman Empire, 284-602: a social economic and administrative survey (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1964), p. 645.
R. Rémondon, ‘Militaires et civils dans une campagne égyptienne au temps de Constance II’, Journal des Savants Année 1 (1965), pp. 132-143.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 72.
E. Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz (Sankt Augustin: H. Richarz 1973), p. 69, no. 2.7.
T. D. Barnes, ‘The Career of Abinnaeus’, Phoenix 39 (1985), pp. 368-374.
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 259 no. 73.
P. W. Pestman, Familiearchieven uit het land van Pharao (Zutphen: Terra 1989), pp. 134-137.
R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1996), p. 228.
Ph. Sabin, H. van Wees, M.Whitby, M.l J. Whitby, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Volume 2, pp. 435-436.
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), pp. 122, 126 pl. 101.
C. Gallazzi, ‘Dove è stato ritrovato l’archivio di Abinneo?’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 61 (2015), pp. 170-179.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)