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Papyrus 237
- Record Id:
- 040-002104610
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003ad
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124158.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 237
- Title:
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Letter of Agathus to Abinnaeus concerning the Annona (P.Abinn. 26, P.Lond. II 237, TM 10024)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter to Abinnaeus from Agathus, a military accountant (actuarius), who is being detained in Arsinoe. Agathus asks that a certain Uranius be kept at Dionysias until his return so that he may check the accounts for the collection of the annona. Regulations of the dux as to the annona quotas collected are then provided: the wheat should be kept under lock in the camp and inspection of the quality should be made. In the postscript written from top to bottom of the left margin Agathus asks that a recruit be sent and states that he is being detained on account of gratuities (sportulae). The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104610 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 237 : Letter of Agathus to Abinnaeus concerning the Annona (P.Abinn. 26, P.Lond. II 237, TM 10024) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0702]/040-002104610
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus sheet, fully preserved, although somewhat damaged at the bottom and slightly defaced in places. Writing is on both sides along the fibres, the back having a two-line docket. The recto has a two-line postscript written across the fibres, perpendicularly to the main text, running from the top to the bottom of the left margin. Vertical folds are visible. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124158.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0346
- End Date:
- 0346
- Date Range:
- c. 346
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 267 x 109 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 320 x 145 mm.
Script: Cursive hand of medium size.
- 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:
- P.Abinn. 26
P.Lond. II 237 - 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. 414.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 293-294, no. 237.
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. 73-75, no. 26.
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. 2.
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.
F. Mitthof, Annona militaris: die Heeresversorgung im spätantiken Ägypten: ein Beitrag zur Verwaltungs- und Heeresgeschichte des Römischen Reiches im 3. bis 6. Jh. n. Chr. (Firenze: Edizioni Gonnelli 2001), p. 448.
Ph. Sabin, H. van Wees, M. Whitby, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Volume 2, pp. 435-436.
J. Harries, Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363: The New Empire (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2012), pp. 62-63.
J. Banaji, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014), p. 54.
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)