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Papyrus 402
- Record Id:
- 040-002104772
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000011
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127415.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 402
- Title:
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Tax List (P.Lond. II 402 recto, TM 5894) and List of Traveller’s Items (P.Dryton 38, P.Lond. II 402 verso, TM 619)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Lond. II 402 recto, TM 5894): Tax list from an official register recording the payment of taxes in wheat. Names are followed by the amounts, stated in artabas.
Verso (P.Dryton 38, P.Lond. II 402 verso, TM 619): Personal list of a traveller’s items, perhaps written by Esthladas, son of Dryton. The list includes mattresses, pillow-cases, horse-cloths, bags, sandals, a portable table, cups, weapons etc.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104772 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 402 : Tax List (P.Lond. II 402 recto, TM 5894) and List of Traveller’s Items (P.Dryton 38, P.Lond. II 402 verso, TM 619) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0290]/040-002104772
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, written on both sides, along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso. The papyrus is damaged in places, with holes and loss of strips of fibres on either side. On the verso, a darker spot is visible at the top. The text on the recto consists of one column, almost complete; some parts were erased. The text on the verso, complete, is arranged in one column. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143127415.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0153
- End Date:
- -0141
- Date Range:
- 153-152 BC or 142-141 BC
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 310 x 108 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 370 x 165 mm.
Script: Recto: small cursive hand. Verso: upright cursive hand, compressed laterally; presumably hand of Esthladas.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Recto: Egypt. Verso: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 401-447 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 15 May 1893.
- Former External References:
- P.Dryton 38
P.Lond. II 402 recto
P.Lond. II 402 verso - 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. 443.
Recto
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 10-11, no. 402 recto.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 122-177 (p. 135).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 243.
Lines 9-12: Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum I (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1957), p. 188, no. 42.
K. Vandorpe, The bilingual family archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia and their daughter Senmouthis (P. Dryton) (Brussel: Het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2002), p. 311.
Verso
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 11-12, no. 402 verso.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 243-244.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 178.
K. Vandorpe, 'When a Man Has Found a Horse to his Mind'. On Greek Horsemanship in Ptolemaic Egypt’, in B. Kramer, W. Luppe, H. Maehler (eds.), Akten des 21. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses, Berlin, 13.-19.8. 1995 (Stuttgart-Leipzig: B. G. Teubner 1997), pp. 984-990.
J. Kramer, ‘Neues zu κάς und seiner Wortfamilie’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 46 (2000), pp. 62-64.
K. Vandorpe, The bilingual family archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia and their daughter Senmouthis (P. Dryton) (Brussel: Het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2002), pp. 311-315, no. 38.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), pp. 110-111.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)