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Papyrus 353
- Record Id:
- 040-002104726
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000016
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126946.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 353
- Title:
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Letter Accompanying a List of Priest (P.Lond. II 353, C.Pap.Gr. Clergé II 112, TM 11734)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter addressed to the royal scribe of the meris of Herakleides from various priests of Soknopaiou Nesos, stating that they have submitted the list of priests and the inventory of the goods of the temple for the current year. With dating clause at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104726 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 353 : Letter Accompanying a List of Priest (P.Lond. II 353, C.Pap.Gr. Clergé II 112, TM 11734) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0245]/040-002104726
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a light-brown papyrus sheet, broken off to the left and damaged by holes and abrasion; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Parts of 14 lines remain, all lacking the beginning; upper, right and lower margins partly survive.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126946.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0221
- End Date:
- 0221
- Date Range:
- 23 August 221
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 193 x 140 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 245 x 190 mm.
Script: Neat and regular chancery hand of fair size, thin and upright, with some ligatures and hooked strokes.
- 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:
- C.Pap.Gr. Clergé II 112
P.Lond. III 353 - 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. 439.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 112-113, no. 353.
E. M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912), p. 171, facs. no. 33.
E. M. Thompson, Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, etc.: second series. New Palaeographical Society Series II, Vol I, II (London: Oxford University Press 1913-1932), 186.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 258.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 93.
G. Cavallo, ‘La scrittura del P. Berol. 11532: contributo allo studio dello stile di cancelleria nei papiri greci di età romana’, Aegyptus 45 (1965), pp. 216-249 (p. 249, with pl. X).
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), tav. 74.
B. G. Mandilaras, Papyroi kai papyrologia (Athens: 1980), p. 187, n. 54; (1994), p. 395, no. 56.
H. Harrauer, P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘BGU I 296 + SPP XXII 73’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 29 (1983), pp. 25-27 (p. 26).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 177.
K. A Worp, F. A. J. Hoogendijk, ‘Drei unveröffentlichte griechische Papyri aus der Wiener Sammlung’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 16 (2001), pp. 45-61 (pp. 48-49).
T. Kruse, Der Königliche Schreiber und die Gauverwaltung (München- Leipzig: K.G. Saur 2002), p. 715, n. 2024.
G. Cavallo, Il calamo e il papiro. La scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio (Papyrologica Florentina XXXVI) (Firenze: Gonnelli 2005), p. 35, tav. VIb.
J. M. S. Cowey, D. Kah, ‘Bemerkungen zu Texten aus BGU I-IV. Teil I: Zensusdeklarationen’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 163 (2007), pp. 147-182 (p. 176).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 101.
C. Messerer, Corpus des papyrus grecs sur les relations administratives entre le clergé égyptien et les autorités romaines II (Papyrologica Coloniensia 41/2) (Paderborn: Schöningh 2019), pp. 274-276, no. 112.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Soknopaiou Nesos, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Related Material:
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The hand is similar to that of SB XVI 12785.