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Papyrus 249
- Record Id:
- 040-002104622
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003b9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124778.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 249
- Title:
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Account from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 75, P.Lond. II 249, TM 10062)
- Scope & Content:
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An account of wine in several hands, arranged in columns and continuing on the back. Names and quantities of wine distributed to each are listed; other articles such as a pig, corn, fleeces are occasionally mentioned. Many of the men listed are military. Some annotations occur in the margins of column 1 on the front and above a line on the back; some lines were crossed out on both sides. The last record on the back was presumably made by the prefect himself.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104622 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 249 : Account from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 75, P.Lond. II 249, TM 10062) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0141]/040-002104622
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, fully preserved, written on either side, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back, the back being the continuation of the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124778.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0340
- End Date:
- 0348
- Date Range:
- 340-348
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 255 x 201 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 310 x 295 mm.
Script: Several cursive hands. Hand 1: Recto: column 1, lines 1-20; Hands 2-4: Annotations in the margins of column 1; Hand 3: Column 1, lines 21-22; Hand 4: Column 1, lines 23-24; Hand 5: Column 1, lines 25-26; Hand 6: Column 2: Hands 6-10. Verso: Hands 11-13, and hand 4 for the annotation to Column 1, line 5.
- 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. 75
P.Lond. II 249 - 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. 416.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 307-309, no. 249.
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. 155-157, no. 75.
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.
E. Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz (Sankt Augustin: H. Richarz 1973), p. 69, no. 2.7.
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.
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 259 no. 73.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 2.
Ph. Mayerson, ‘σπάτιον/σπάθιον– A Wineskin’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 121 (1998) pp. 226-228 (p. 227).
E. Jakab, Risikomanagement beim Weinkauf: Periculum und Praxis im Imperium Romanum (München: C.H. Beck 2009), p. 38.
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)