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Papyrus 261
- Record Id:
- 040-002104634
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003c5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 261
- Title:
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Official Register (Stud. Pal. IV, pp. 58-83, TM 14986) and Demotic Accounts (P.Lond. II 261v. descr., TM 90844)
- Scope & Content:
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Parts of the official returns written by Heraclides, amphodarch of the quarter of Apollonios’ Camp in Arsinoe, of which further portions are to be found in Papyrus 260 and P.Vindob. G 19976. These are lists, drawn up by the same hand, of inhabitants of the quarter liable to various taxes; 45 columns survive, and Papyrus 261 represents the beginning of the document, containing lines 1-278. Thirty columns before it were lost.
Recto:
Papyrus 261 (1): 10 columns of Greek text; some Demotic writing was added in the blank space; columns 1- 2, numbered on top as 31 and 32, contain sums of money payable by the men who were listed in the previous columns, now lost; from column 3 a new section of the returns begins concerning boys below the age of fourteen.
Papyrus 261 (2): 9 columns written in Greek, continuing the returns; of column 9 only the first letters of a few lines remain; Demotic writing was added in the blank space and occasionally above the Greek text.
Verso: Demotic accounts (TM 90844, descr.).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104634 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 261 : Official Register (Stud. Pal. IV, pp. 58-83, TM 14986) and Demotic Accounts (P.Lond. II 261v. descr., TM 90844) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0153]/040-002104634
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of various sizes from a papyrus roll, written on both sides in Greek and Demotic, and housed in two glass frames; imperfect at both ends and damaged throughout; on the recto, 19 columns in Greek are preserved, although only a few traces of the last remain. Occasionally we see Demotic text written above the Greek one as well as added in the blank space of the recto. The verso bears Demotic writing. The recto of the papyrus contains lines 1-278 of the document of which further portions are to be found in Papyrus 260 and in P.Vindob. G. 19976.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Egyptian (Ancient)
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Egyptian demotic
Greek - Start Date:
- 0073
- End Date:
- 0073
- Date Range:
- ca. 73
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Papyrus 261 (1): 260 x 1605 mm; Papyrus 261 (2): 260 x 1615 mm. Mounted in two glass frames measuring 435 x 1800 mm and 435 x 1875 mm respectively.
Script: Fine and carefully written semi-cursive of medium size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Ptolemais Euergetis, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Ptolemais Euergetis, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 256-271 from Theodor Graf (b. 1840, d. 1903) on 14 March 1893.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 261
P.Lond. II 261v. descr.
Stud.Pal. IV pp. 58-83 - 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. 419.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. XXV, no. 260vo. descr., pp. 42-53 no. 260, pp. 53-61, no. 261.
C. Wessely, ‘Arsinoitische Verwaltungsurkunden vom Jahre 72/3 nach Chr.’, in Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde IV (Leipzig: E. Avenarius 1905), pp. 58-83.
L. Mitteis, U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde I.2 (Leipzig-Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1912), pp. 85-87, no. 61.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner 1913), pp. 245, 408.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), pp. 394-396, no. 248, pp. 581-582, no. 332.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 235.
Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum II (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1960), pp. 204-208, no. 421.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1964), pp. 43, 94.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1969), p. 51.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 193.
T. Kruse, ‘Κατάκριμα - Strafzahlung oder Steuer? Überlegungen zur Steuererhebung im römischen ägypten in iulischclaudischer Zeit anhand von P. Oxy. XLI 2971, SB XIV 11381, SPP IV p. 70-71, BGU VII 1613 und OGIS II 669’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 124 (1999), pp. 157-190.
T. Kruse, Der königliche Schreiber und die Gauverwaltung: Untersuchungen zur Verwaltungsgeschichte Ägyptens in der Zeit von Augustus bis Philippus Arabs (30 v.Chr.-245 n.Chr.) (München: K. G. Saur 2002), pp. 272-276.
W. Mees, Organisationsformen römischer Töpfer-Manufakturen am Beispiel von Arezzo und Rheinzabern: unter Berücksichtigung von Papyri, Inschriften und Rechtsquellen (Bonn : Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums in Kommission bei R. Habelt 2002), pp. 393-394.
R. S. Kraemer, Women's religions in the Greco-Roman world: a sourcebook (New York - Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004), pp. 128-129, no. 55.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2009), p. 267.
W. Clarysse, ‘Dionysos, Souchos and Sarapis as Personal Names?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 186 (2013), pp. 259-266 (p. 261).
W. Clarysse, ‘Some papyrological ghostnames’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik. Korr.Tyche 30 (2015), p. 214, no. 771.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)