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Papyrus 327
- Record Id:
- 040-002104700
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000357
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126504.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 327
- Title:
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Declaration of Camel (P.Lond. II 324, TM 11708)
- Scope & Content:
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A declaration headed ‘Soknopaiou (Nesos), camel 1’ addressed to the strategus and royal scribe of the division of Herakleides in the Arsinoite nome from Ecysis, son of Horus, who states that he still owns the camel he had registered in the previous year. With registration dockets at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104700 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 327 : Declaration of Camel (P.Lond. II 324, TM 11708) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0219]/040-002104700
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus sheet, slightly damaged along the right edge and torn at the bottom; it is written on one side along the fibres, with the back blank. The text consists of 19 complete lines, some of which indented. Horizontal folds are visible. An ample margin was left to the left. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126504.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0162
- End Date:
- 0162
- Date Range:
- 28 January 162
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 136 x 78 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 190 x 125 mm.
Script: Large sloping cursive of fair size; the dockets at the end are more roughly and rapidly written.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, 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:
- P.Lond. II 327
- 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. 432.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. 74, no. 327.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 247.
M. H. de Kat Eliassen, ‘List of Royal Scribes of the Arsinoites in the Roman period’, Symbolae Osloenses 55 (1980), pp. 95-110 (p. 99).
G. Bastianini, J. Whitehorne, Strategi and royal scribes of Roman Egypt: chronological list and index (Firenze: Edizioni Gonnelli 1987), pp. 20, 132-133.
T. Kruse, Der Königliche Schreiber und die Gauverwaltung 1 (München- Leipzig: K.G. Saur 2002), p. 194 n. 406 and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)