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Papyrus 248
- Record Id:
- 040-002104621
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003b8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124701.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 248
- Title:
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Letter of Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 43, P.Lond. II 248, TM 10033)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter of Abinnaeus to two men both named Menas, Apollos and all his friends, reminding them to pay their debts to his brothers and his son for articles such as dates and barley. He enumerates the sums due and the total. There is no closing greeting.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104621 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 248 : Letter of Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 43, P.Lond. II 248, TM 10033) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0713]/040-002104621
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, fully preserved, although with a few holes in the lower portion; the surface is damaged in places. Writing is on one side along the fibres. All margins are extant, and an ample margin was left to the right (30-53 mm). The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124701.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0348
- End Date:
- 0351
- Date Range:
- 348-351
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 257 x 197 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 305 x 240 mm.
Script: Large, upright hand, with ligatured sequences.
- 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:
- P.Abinn. 43
P.Lond. II 248 - 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. 305-306, no. 248.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, ‘Corrections to Kenyon's Catalogue of Brit. Mus. Papyri (II.)’, The Classical Review 12 (1898), pp. 434-436 (p. 436).
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. 97-99, no. 43.
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 (p. 890).
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.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 1.
R. S. Bagnall, P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Currency in the Fourth Century and the Date of CPR V 26’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 24 (1977), pp. 111-124 (p. 118).
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.
R. S. Bagnall, ‘Military Officers as Landowners in Fourth Century Egypt’, Chiron 22 (1992), pp. 47-5 (pp. 50-51).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 1.
C. Gallazzi, ‘Dove è stato ritrovato l’archivio di Abinneo?’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 61 (2015), pp. 170-179.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), p. 126.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)