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Papyrus 403
- Record Id:
- 040-002104774
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000012
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127435.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 403
- Title:
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Petition of Maria to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 49, P.Lond. II 403, TM 10039)
- Scope & Content:
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A petition addressed to Flavius Abinnaeus from Aurelia Maria, daughter-in-law of a soldier stationed at Memphis, with holding in the village of Theoxenis. Maria complains that at night nine of her sheep had been shorn, and three carried away. The alleged culprits are Ioannes and Elias, both of Narmouthis. Maria asks that these individuals be apprehended.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104774 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 403 : Petition of Maria to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 49, P.Lond. II 403, TM 10039) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0716]/040-002104774
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, almost fully preserved with the exception of some holes of fair size; writing is on one side along the fibres; all margins are extant, the right being minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143127435.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0346
- End Date:
- 0346
- Date Range:
- 5 July 346
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 257 x 150 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 305 x 195 mm.
Script: Thick medium-sized cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Theoxenis, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, or Dionysias, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite 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.Abinn. 49
P.Lond. II 403 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), pp. 443-444.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 275-276, no. 403.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, ‘Corrections to Kenyon's Catalogue of Brit. Mus. Papyri (II.)’, The Classical Review 12 (1898), pp. 434-436 (p. 436).
H. I. Bell, V. Martin, E. G. Turner, D. van Berchem, The Abinnaeus Archive. Papers of a Roman Officer in the Reign of Constantius II (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1962), pp. 106-107, no. 49.
C. Vandersleyen, ‘Reviewed Work: The Abinnaeus Archive. Papers of a Roman Officer in the Reign of Constantius II by H. I. Bell, V. Martin, E. G. Turner, D. van Berchem’, Latomus 22 (1963), pp. 887-890.
R. Rémondon, ‘Militaires et civils dans une campagne égyptienne au temps de Constance II’, Journal des Savants Année 1 (1965), pp. 132-143.
E. Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz (Sankt Augustin: H. Richarz 1973), p. 69, no. 2.7.
T. D. Barnes, ‘The Career of Abinnaeus’, Phoenix 39 (1985), pp. 368-374.
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 259 no. 73.
H. Harrauer, K. A. Worp, ‘Literarische Papyri aus Soknopaiou Nesos. Eine Übersicht’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 8 (1993), pp. 35-40 (p. 40).
D. Rathbone, ‘Villages and Patronage in Fourth-Century Egypt: The Case of P.Ross.Georg. 3.8’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 45 (2008), pp. 189-207 (p. 194).
J.-U. Krause, Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung Heft 108: Gewalt und Kriminalität in der Spätantike (München: Beck 2014), p. 100.
E. A. Mathieson, Christian women in the Greek papyri of Egypt to 400 CE (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols 2014), pp. 18-20, and passim.
C. Gallazzi, ‘Dove è stato ritrovato l’archivio di Abinneo?’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 61 (2015), pp. 170-179.
B. Palme, ‘Eingabe an Militärs im spätantiken Ägypten’, in R. Haensch, F. Hurlet et al. (eds.), Recht haben und Recht bekommen im Imperium romanum: das Gerichtswesen der römischen Kaiserzeit und seine dokumentarische Evidenz: ausgewählte Beiträge einer Serie von drei Konferenzen an der Villa Vigoni in den Jahren 2010 bis 2012 (Warschau: The Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation 2016), pp. 457-482 (p. 469).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)