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Papyrus 340
- Record Id:
- 040-002104713
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003a4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126732.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 340
- Title:
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Receipt for Poll Tax (P.Lond. II 340, TM 11719)
- Scope & Content:
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A receipt acknowledging that Sotas, son of Ptolemaeus, has paid 20 drachmas and surcharges to the tax collector Diogenes, also called Euporion, on account of the poll-tax of the previous year.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104713 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 340 : Receipt for Poll Tax (P.Lond. II 340, TM 11719) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0232]/040-002104713
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Small papyrus sheet, complete, with slight surface damage in the middle along the vertical fold. The text is complete and runs along the fibres on one side, with the back being blank. All margins are extant, the right being irregular and minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126732.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0179
- End Date:
- 0179
- Date Range:
- 28 September 179
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 72 x 106 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 130 x 155 mm.
Script: Small and rapid upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), 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 340
- 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. 435.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 69-70, no. 340.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 246.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 84.
R. Ziegler, ‘Bemerkungen zur Datierung dokumentarischer Papyri und Ostraka’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 114 (1996), pp. 157-161 (p. 160).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)