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Papyrus 324
- Record Id:
- 040-002104697
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000354
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126452.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 324
- Title:
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Letter with Census Extracts (P.Lond. II 324, Chrest.Wilck. 208, TM 19984)
- Scope & Content:
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Copies of extracts of two previous census declarations kept in the record office of a village in the Prosopite nome sent by Anicus to his sister Tamystha; the copies are sent with a letter where Anicus states that he will produce the original documents whenever there may be the need to prove that they are brothers from the same mother. The back mentions Anicus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104697 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 324 : Letter with Census Extracts (P.Lond. II 324, Chrest.Wilck. 208, TM 19984) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0216]/040-002104697
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete but damaged by holes throughout, especially along the vertical folding lines. Writing runs along the fibres on either side, the back bearing one line. On the front there is one column of 34 lines, all complete. All margins are extant, with the right and lower minimal. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126452.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0161
- End Date:
- 0161
- Date Range:
- 24 March 161
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 234 x 148 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 280 x 205 mm.
Script: Thin, large and somewhat irregular cursive hand, slanting to the right; second hand from the middle of line 28 to end: unexperienced and rough upright detached hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Prosopite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: 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. 208
P.Lond. II 324 - 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. 431.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 63-64, no. 324.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 245.
U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien: ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte I (Leipzig-Berlin: Gieseke & Devrient 1899), p. 487.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 244-245, no. 208.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 93.
H. C. Youtie, ‘ἀπάτορες: Law vs. Custom in Roman Egypt’, in Scriptiunculae posteriores I (Bonn: R. Habelt Verlag 1981), pp. 17–34 (pp. 17–19).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), pp. 98-99.
R. S. Bagnall, B. W. Frier, The Demography of Roman Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994), p. 218, Pr-131-i, Pr-145-i
1 S. Huebner, '"Brother-sister" marriage in Roman Egypt: A curiosity of Humankind or a widespread family strategy?', Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007), pp. 21-49 (p. 38).
J. Rowlandson, R. Takahashi, ‘Brother-Sister Marriage and Inheritance Strategies in Greco-Roman Egypt’, The Journal of Roman Studies 99 (2009), pp. 104-139 (p. 104, n. 3).
A. Pudsey, ‘Nuptiality and the demographic life cycle’, in C. Holleran, A.l Pudsey (eds.), Demography and the Graeco-Roman World: New Insights and Approaches (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2011), pp. 60-98 (p. 83).
J. G. Keenan, J. G. Manning, U. Yiftach-Firanko (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 198-200, no. 4.4.5.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)