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Papyrus 254
- Record Id:
- 040-002104627
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003be
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471122.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 254
- Title:
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Accounts (P.Lond. II 254 ro., P.Lond. II 254 vo., TM 11655, 28030)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (TM 11655):
Account recording the artabas of wheat and occasionally of barley for seed distributed daily in various localities of the Arsinoite nome, such as Kerkesoucha, Bakchias, Karanis. Dated to 8 February 134.
Verso (TM 28030):
Second-century account for 12-18 Phaophi, with names and money payments made on account of taxes. The totals are summarised in column 4.
In the left margin are the names of Achilles and Priam, perhaps the remains of a title of a literary work.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104627 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 254 : Accounts (P.Lond. II 254 ro., P.Lond. II 254 vo., TM 11655, 28030) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0146]/040-002104627
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus roll, darkened in places and damaged by holes of varying size, abrasion, and loss of fibres. It bears writing on both sides, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The front contains 9 narrow columns; the intercolumn and lower margin are irregular. The upper and right margins are minimal; the left margin survives to x mm. The back contains 4 broad columns, with wide intercolumn between the third and fourth columns. In the left margin there are two lines.
The papyrus is mounted in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 220 x 570 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 270 x 615 mm.
Script: Recto: Small cursive hand; Verso: small cursive hand, with a second hand responsible for adding the totals at intervals and for writing column 4.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Recto: Arsinoite nome. Verso: Krokodilopolis, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: 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.Lond. II 254 ro.
P.Lond. II 254 vo. - 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.
Recto
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 225-229, no. 254 recto.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 265.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), pp. 462-463, no. 293.
R. S. Bagnall, ‘Agricultural Productivity and Taxation in Later Roman Egypt’, Transactions of the American Philological Association 115 (1985), pp. 289-308 (pp. 292-293).
R. Ziegler, ‘Bemerkungen zur Datierung dokumentarischer Papyri und Ostraka’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 114 (1996), pp. 157-161 (p. 161).
Ph. Mayerson, ‘ϲῖτοϲ/πυρόϲ in Egypt as Deliberate Mixtures of Wheat with Barley’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 42 (2005), pp. 51-62 (p. 60).
Verso
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 230-233, no. 254 verso.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 265.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 127.
W. Clarysse, ‘Dionysos, Souchos and Sarapis as Personal Names?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 186 (2013), pp. 259-266 (p. 262).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)