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Papyrus 306
- Record Id:
- 040-002104679
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000302
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126072.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 306
- Title:
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Contract for the Appointment of a Delegate (P.Lond. II 306, Chrest.Wilck. 263, TM 11685)
- Scope & Content:
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Stotoetis, son of Stotoetis, tax-collector in Herakleia, appoints Satornilus, son of Apion, as a deputy in the tax collection for the third share of the office for two years. The delegate has to pay all the expenses related to the work and is to receive a salary of 252 drachmas per year.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104679 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 306 : Contract for the Appointment of a Delegate (P.Lond. II 306, Chrest.Wilck. 263, TM 11685) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0198]/040-002104679
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom and damaged along the vertical folding lines. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The text consists of one column with 26 lines, with the last quite mutilated. Left and upper margins are extant; no blank space was left to the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126072.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0145
- End Date:
- 0145
- Date Range:
- 28 August 145
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 176 x 141 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 240 x 190 mm.
Script: Neat and proficient upright cursive hand of small size, occasionally thicker. Hand of Alcimus.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Herakleia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 272-400 from Theodor Graf (b. 1840, d. 1903) on 11 April 1893.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 263
P.Lond. II 306
Sel.Pap. II 358 - 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. 428.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 118-119, no. 306.
U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien: ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte I (Leipzig-Berlin: Gieseke & Devrient, 1899), pp. 606-607.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 122-177 (p. 149).
L. Wenger, Die Stellvertretung im Rechte der Papyri (Leipzig: Teubner 1906), pp. 73-74.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 311-312, no. 263.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 434-437, no. 358.
D. Hobson, ‘The Village of Heraklia in the Arsinoite Nome’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985), pp. 101-115 (p. 113).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 176.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 129.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)