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Papyrus 405
- Record Id:
- 040-002104776
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000014
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127468.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 405
- Title:
- Letter of Lupicinus to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 11, P.Lond. II 405, TM 10016)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter of Lupicinus, who informs Abinnaeus about some instructions given by an official of the dux Flavius Felicissimus: a military escort should be sent to meet the party at Leukogion, in the Heracleopolite nome. The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104776 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 405 : Letter of Lupicinus to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 11, P.Lond. II 405, TM 10016) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0719]/040-002104776
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, written on both sides along the fibres, the back having a one-line docket. Fourteen lines are fully preserved on the front. Left, upper and right margins are extant, the right being minimal. Vertical folds are visible. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143127468.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0346
- End Date:
- 0346
- Date Range:
- c. 346
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 140 x 110 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 190 x 160 mm.
Script: Clear, but somewhat irregular upright hand of fair size, with several ligatured sequences.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: 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. 11
P.Lond. II 405 - 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. 444.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 294-295, no. 405.
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. 53-54, no. 11.
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.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 93.
E. Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz (Sankt Augustin: H. Richarz 1973), p. 69, no. 2.7.
J. G. Keenan, ‘The Names Flavius and Aurelius as Status Designations in Later Roman Egypt’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 13 (1974), pp. 283-304 (p. 295).
T. D. Barnes, ‘The Career of Abinnaeus’, Phoenix 39 (1985), pp. 368-374.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 2.
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 259 no. 73.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 2.
C. Gallazzi, ‘Dove è stato ritrovato l’archivio di Abinneo?’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 61 (2015), pp. 170-179.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)