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Papyrus 408
- Record Id:
- 040-002104779
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000019
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127517.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 408
- Title:
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Letter of Protest to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 18, P.Lond. II 408, TM 10020)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter from Chaeremon, decurion of Arsinoe, to Abinnaeus, who is being rebuked for his neglection in investigating into the outrages committed by some evildoers in the village of Theoxenis. The perpetrators were simply carried away as if there were no laws. They should be sent for inquiry or the matter will be taken further.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104779 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 408 : Letter of Protest to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 18, P.Lond. II 408, TM 10020) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0722]/040-002104779
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus sheet, lacking its top left edge, written on one side along the fibres. Of the twenty-two lines of the text, the first seven are fragmentary. 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_100143127517.0x000001 (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: 256 x 150 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 310 x 200 mm.
Script: Regular and neat cursive hand of medium size; corrections and deletions occur.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis, 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. 18
P.Lond. II 408 - 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. 283-284, no. 408.
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).
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 122-177 (p. 164).
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. 62-63, no. 18.
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 V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 2.
F. Zucker, ‘Urkundenreferat. A. VII. P.Abinn. (s. S. 68)’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 18 (1966), pp. 103-111 (pp. 107-108).
E. Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz (Sankt Augustin: H. Richarz 1973), p. 69, no. 2.7.
J.-M. Carrié, ‘Patronage et propriete militaire au IVe siecle: Objet rhetorique et objet reel du discours 'Sur les Patronages' de Libanius’, Bulletin De Correspondance Hellenique 100 (1976), pp. 159-176 (pp. 172-174).
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.
R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1993), p. 222.
R. Alston, Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt: A Social History (London-New York: Routledge 1995), p. 149.
C. Zuckerman, ‘Two reforms of the 370s: recruiting soldiers and senators in the divided Empire’, Revue des études byzantines 56 (1998), pp. 79-139 (pp. 81-84).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), 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)