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Papyrus 355
- Record Id:
- 040-002104728
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00001d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126992.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 355
- Title:
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Judicial Sentence (P.Lond. II 355, TM 11736)
- Scope & Content:
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Ruling of Seppius Rufus, whereby Satabous is sentenced to pay a sum of 500 drachmas on account of his purchasing some empty and ownerless plots from Chaeremon. Satabous had been accused by Nestnephis.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104728 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 355 : Judicial Sentence (P.Lond. II 355, TM 11736) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0247]/040-002104728
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, mutilated to the left, with insect holes throughout; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The text occupies the upper half of the sheet and consists of one column of 13 lines lacking the beginnings. Upper, lower and right margins are extant, the right being minimal; the blank space at the bottom measures 130-135 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126992.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0016
- End Date:
- 0016
- Date Range:
- 16
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 276 x 192 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 330 x 240 mm.
Script: Large semi-cursive hand, somewhat irregular in size.
- 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 355
- 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. 438.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. 178, no. 355, with pl. 17.
C. Wessely, Papyrorum scripturae graecae specimina isagogica (Lipsiae: E. Avenarium 1900), pl. 4.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 259.
P. R. Swarney, The Ptolemaic and Roman Idios Logos (Toronto: A.M. Hakkert 1970), pp. 41-49.
F. A. J. Hoogendijk, ‘Het ‘Nestnêphis-proces’. Een strijd tussen Egyptische priesters in de 1ste eeuw n. Chr.’, Hermeneus 66 (1994), pp. 255-262.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 130.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 213).
T. Kruse, Der Königliche Schreiber und die Gauverwaltung 1 (München- Leipzig: K.G. Saur 2002), pp. 532-537.
H.-A. Rupprecht, ‘Die Streitigkeiten zwischen Satabous und Nestnephis’, in G. Thür, F. J. Fernández Nieto (eds.), Symposion 1999. Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Akten der Gesellschaft für griechische und hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte 14) (Köln: Böhlau 2003), pp. 481-492.
S. Alessandrì, Le vendite fiscali nell'Egitto Romano 1. Da Augusto a Domiziano (Bari: Edipuglia 2005), pp. 133-150.
M. Schentuleit, ‘Satabus aus Soknopaiu Nesos: Aus dem Leben eines Priesters am Beginn der römischen Kaiserzeit’, Chronique d'Égypte 82 (2007), pp. 101-125.
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 1-6, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Satabous, son of Herieus, 20 BC - 88 AD
Seppius Rufus, administrator of the idios logos, early 1st century - Places:
- Soknopaiou Nesos, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Related Material:
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The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Satabous, son of Herieus (TM Arch ID 151). A duplicate of lines 5-12 is found in another papyrus published as CPR XV 6; the ruling is also preserved in SB I 5240.