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Papyrus 250
- Record Id:
- 040-002104623
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003ba
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124862.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 250
- Title:
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List of Animals from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 71, P.Lond. II 250, TM 10060)
- Scope & Content:
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A document headed as ‘list of animals’, with twenty-nine persons, each followed by the numeral 1, presumably indicating the number of animals that each person had to contribute.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104623 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 250 : List of Animals from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 71, P.Lond. II 250, TM 10060) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0142]/040-002104623
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus sheet, fully preserved, written on one side along the fibres. All margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124862.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0350
- End Date:
- 0350
- Date Range:
- C. 350
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 247 x 102 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 295 x 150 mm.
Script: Upright semi-cursive hand of fair size.
- 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. 71
P.Lond. II 250 - 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. 309-310, no. 250.
G. Crönert, ‘Adnotamenta in Papyros Musei Britannici Graecas Maximam Partem Lexicographica. II’, The Classical Review 17 (1903), pp. 193-198 (p. 197).
J. F. Gilliam, ‘Reviewed Work: Excavations at Nessana, Vol. III: Nonliterary Papyri by Casper J. Kraemer’, Classical Philology 54 (1959), pp. 180-183 (p. 182).
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. 150, no. 71.
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.
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.
A. Maravela-Solbakk, ‘Two Documents about Donkeys from the Collection of the Oslo University Library’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 149 (2004), pp. 177-185 (p. 183).
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)
- Names:
- Abinnaeus, Flavius, Præfectus Castrorum at Dionysias, in Egypt, 325-375
- Places:
- Dionysias (Qasr Qarun), meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza), Egypt - Related Material:
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The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Abinnaeus, commander of the fortress at Dionysias (TM Arch ID 1).