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Papyrus 242
- Record Id:
- 040-002104615
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003b2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124214.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 242
- Title:
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Petition of Aboul to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 48, P.Lond. II 242, TM 10038)
- Scope & Content:
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Aurelius Aboul, son of Dionysius, of the village of Hermopolis, petitions Flavius Abinnaeus complaining that eleven of his sheep were secretly shorn at night and accusing a soldier called Paul, who was under Abinnaeus’ command. Paul had named further people as accomplices. In the postscript the same men are accused to have driven off six pigs of Aboul’s on another occasion.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104615 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 242 : Petition of Aboul to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 48, P.Lond. II 242, TM 10038) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0707]/040-002104615
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, damaged by holes especially in its central portion, and lacking the bottom right edge. Writing is on one side along the fibres. All margins are extant, the right being minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124214.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0346
- End Date:
- 0346
- Date Range:
- 29 June 346
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 255 x 136 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 310 x 185 mm.
Script: Rough cursive hand, similar to that of Papyrus 241.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis, meris of Themistos, 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. 48
P.Lond. II 242 - 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. 415.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 274-275, no. 242.
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. 105-106, no. 48.
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.
R. Rémondon, ‘Un papyrus inedit des archives d'Abinnaeus (P. Berlin inv. 11624)’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 18 (1974), pp. 33-37 (p. 34).
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.
J. G. Keenan, ‘Pastoralism in Roman Egypt’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 26 (1989), pp. 175-200 (p. 184).
P. Pestman, The New Papyrological Primer (Leiden: E. J. Brill 19942), pp. 268-269 no. 75.
W. Clarysse, B. Van Beek, ‘Philagris, Perkethaut and Hermoupolis: Three Villages or One?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 140 (2002), pp. 195-200 (pp. 199-200).
P. Sänger, ‘Die Eirenarchen im römischen und byzantinischen Ägypten’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 20 (2005), pp. 143-204 (p. 183).
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, p. 428.
J.-U. Krause, Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung Heft 108: Gewalt und Kriminalität in der Spätantike (München: Beck 2014), p. 100, and passim.
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)