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Papyrus 245
- Record Id:
- 040-002104618
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003b5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124360.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 245
- Title:
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Petition to Abinnaeus on Burglary (P.Abinn. 45, P.Lond. II 245, TM 10035)
- Scope & Content:
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A petition to Abinnaeus from a veteran named Flavius Priscus and his wife Alia, landowners in the village of Philagris. While the man was away, some robbers broke in their house at night and carried away all their possessions making a subterranean passage. The couple ask that the village officers be apprehended and compelled to produce the malefactors.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104618 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 245 : Petition to Abinnaeus on Burglary (P.Abinn. 45, P.Lond. II 245, TM 10035) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0710]/040-002104618
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, damaged in its upper portion, lacking part of its left margin and being defaced in places. Writing is on one side along the fibres. 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_100143124360.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0343
- End Date:
- 0343
- Date Range:
- 23 June 343
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 238 x 164 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 280 x 205 mm.
Script: Large cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Philagris, 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. 45
P.Lond. II 245 - 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. 271-272, no. 245.
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. 101-102, no. 45.
R. Rémondon, ‘Militaires et civils dans une campagne égyptienne au temps de Constance II’, Journal des Savants Année 1 (1965), pp. 132-143.
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.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 2.
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 259 no. 73.
G. Azzarello, ‘Einbruchsanzeige an einen procurator*’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 13 (1998), pp. 20-27 (p. 25).
B. C. McGing, ‘Bandits, Real and Imagined, in Greco-Roman Egypt’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998), pp. 159-183 (p. 171).
C. Zuckerman, ‘Two reforms of the 370s: recruiting soldiers and senators in the divided Empire’, Revue des études byzantines 56(1998), pp. 79-139 (p. 85).
J. Banaji, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007), p. 119.
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 48, n. 44.
J.-U. Krause, Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung Heft 108: Gewalt und Kriminalität in der Spätantike (München: Beck 2014), pp. 100, 112, and passim.
C. Gallazzi, ‘Dove è stato ritrovato l’archivio di Abinneo?’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 61 (2015), pp. 170-179.
B. Palme, ‘Eingabe an Militärs im spätantiken Ägypten’, in R. Haensch, F. Hurlet et al. (eds.), Recht haben und Recht bekommen im Imperium romanum: das Gerichtswesen der römischen Kaiserzeit und seine dokumentarische Evidenz: ausgewählte Beiträge einer Serie von drei Konferenzen an der Villa Vigoni in den Jahren 2010 bis 2012 (Warschau: The Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation 2016), pp. 457-482 (p. 468 n. 29).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)