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Papyrus 233
- Record Id:
- 040-002104606
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000395
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124115.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 233
- Title:
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Agreement from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 58, P.Lond. II 233, Chrest.Wilck. 44, FIRA III 160, TM 10049)
- Scope & Content:
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Agreement whereby Aurelius Eulogius, prytanis and president of the senate at Arsinoe, undertakes to repay any expenses Flavius Abinnaeus may incur while he is procuring a certificate of appointment as an exactor (epistula exactoriae) in Eulogius’ name from the imperial administration on the occasion of his trip to Constantinople. With subscription at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104606 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 233 : Agreement from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 58, P.Lond. II 233, Chrest.Wilck. 44, FIRA III 160, TM 10049) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0698]/040-002104606
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fully preserved papyrus sheet, written on one side along the fibres. All margins are extant, the right being minimal. The surface is somewhat abraded in places. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124115.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0345
- End Date:
- 0345
- Date Range:
- 1 February 345
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 268 x 185 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 320 x 230 mm.
Script: Upright cursive hand; a second hand, less cursive, is found in the subscription, in the last two lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis, 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:
- Chrest.Wilck. 44
FIRA III 160
P.Abinn. 58
P.Lond. II 233 - 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. 272-273, no. 233.
M. Gelzer, Studien zur byzantinischen Verwaltung Ägyptens (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1909), pp. 51-52.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 68, no. 44.
V. Martin, ‘Epistula exactoriae’, in Actes du Ve Congrès International de Papyrologie, Oxford, 30 août-3 septembre 1937 (Bruxelles: Fondation égyptologique reine Élisabeth 1938), pp. 260-285.
A. H. M. Jones, The Greek city from Alexander to Justinian (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1940), p. 332.
A. Déléage, La capitation du Bas-Empire (Macon: Protat frères 1945), p. 137, n. 5.
J. D. Thomas, ‘The Office of Exactor’, Chronique d'Égypte 34 (1959), pp. 124-140 (p. 132).
N. Lewis, ‘Two Terminological Novelties’, The American Journal of Philology 81 (1960), pp. 186-188 (p. 186).
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. 118-120, no. 58.
R. Rémondon, ‘Militaires et civils dans une campagne égyptienne au temps de Constance II’, Journal des Savants Année 1 (1965), pp. 132-143.
S. Riccobono et al. (eds.), Fontes iuris romani antejustiniani. Pars tertia: negotia, edidit Vincentius Arangio – Ruiz (Firenze: Barbèra 1968), pp. 491-492, no. 160.
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. Mazza, ‘Ricerche sul pagarca nell'Egitto tardoantico e bizantino’, Aegyptus 75 (1995), pp. 169-242 (p. 199).
P. Pestman, The New Papyrological Primer (Leiden: E. J. Brill 19942), pp. 264-265, no. 73 = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 4.
J. Harries, Law and Empire in Late Antiquity (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press 1999), pp. 26-27.
L. Grig, G. Kelly, Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015), p. 316.
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)