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Papyrus 234
- Record Id:
- 040-002104607
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000396
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124124.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 234
- Title:
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Letter of Macarius to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 3, P.Lond. II 234, Chrest.Wilck. 179, TM 10027)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter of Flavius Macarius, procurator of the imperial estates, to Abinnaeus, prefect of the camp at Dionysias, with instructions to send a military detachment to assist with the collection of imperial taxes as per orders from above. Should Abinnaeus refuse, the dux of Egypt will be informed. The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104607 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 234 : Letter of Macarius to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 3, P.Lond. II 234, Chrest.Wilck. 179, TM 10027) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0701]/040-002104607
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fully preserved light-brown papyrus sheet, with only the top left corner missing. Writing is on both sides along the fibres, the back having a one-line docket written perpendicularly to the text on the recto. Margins are extant, the bottom and right being minimal. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124124.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0345
- End Date:
- 0350
- Date Range:
- 345-350
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 270 x 170 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 320 x 220 mm.
Script: Large semi-cursive hand of chancery type, with tall letters and ligatured sequences. A second hand, smaller, rougher and slightly slanting to the right, is found in the last lines; a third hand, still large and upright, may have written the address on the back.
- 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:
- Chrest.Wilck. 179
P.Abinn. 3
P.Lond. II 234 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), pp. 413-414.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 286-287, no. 234.
E. M. Thomspon, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912),, pp. 174-176, facs. 36.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 210, no. 179.
E. M. Thomspon, New Palaeographical Society, Indices to facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, second series, II (London: Oxford University Press 1924), no. 188.
W. Schubart, Griechische Palaeographie (München: C.H. Beck 1925), pp. 87-88.
A. C. Johnson, L. C. West, Byzantine Egypt: Economic Studies (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1949), p. 35.
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. 39-40, no. 3.
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.
G. Cavallo, ‘La scrittura del P. Berol. 11532: contributo allo studio dello stile di cancelleria nei papiri greci di età romana’, Aegyptus 45 (1965), pp. 216-249 (pp. 244-246, with tav. 14).
R. Rémondon, ‘Militaires et civils dans une campagne égyptienne au temps de Constance II’, Journal des Savants Année 1 (1965), pp. 132-143.
G. Cavallo, ‘Note sulla scrittura greca corsiva’, Scriptorium 22 (1968), pp. 291-294 (p. 293).
A. H. M. Jones, J. R. Martindale, J. Morris, The prosopography of the later Roman Empire I (Cambridge: University Press 1971), p. 331.
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.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 1.
E. Crisci, Scrivere greco fuori d'Egitto. Ricerche sui manoscritti greco-orientali di origine non egiziana dal IV secolo a.C. all'VIII d.C. (Firenze: Gonnelli 1996), pl. XL.
C. Lepelley, La fin de la cité antique et le début de la cité médiévale: de la fin du IIIe siècle à l'avènement de Charlemagne: actes du colloque tenu à l'université de Paris X-Nanterre les 1, 2 et 3 avril 1993 (Bari: Edipuglia 1996), p. 61.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 2.
G. Cavallo, Il calamo e il papiro. La scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio (Papyrologica Florentina XXXVI) (Firenze: Gonnelli 2005), tav. 4b.
Ph. Sabin, H. van Wees, M.Whitby, M. J. Whitby, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007), Volume 2, p. 441.
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), pp. 122-123, 125.
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)