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Papyrus 410
- Record Id:
- 040-002104781
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00001b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127548.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 410
- Title:
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Letter of a Mother to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 34, P.Lond. II 410, TM 10031)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter to Abinnaeus from the mother of Moses, who appeals for a five-day military leave for another son.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104781 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 410 : Letter of a Mother to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 34, P.Lond. II 410, TM 10031) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0724]/040-002104781
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, fully preserved, with a few holes especially along the vertical folds. Writing runs along the fibres on one side. All margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143127548.0x000001 (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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 275 x 127 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 325 x 180 mm.
Script: Rapid, experienced and rather cursive hand of fair size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: 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. 34
P.Lond. II 410 - 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. 445.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 298-299, no. 410.
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. 86-87, no. 34.
R. Rémondon, ‘Militaires et civils dans une campagne égyptienne au temps de Constance II’, Journal des Savants Année 1 (1965), pp. 132-143.
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.
R. S. Bagnall, R. Cribiore, Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2006), pp. 358-359, B7.1, no. 251.
J. J. Palao Vicente, Militares y civiles en la antigua Roma: dos mundos diferentes, dos mundos unidos (Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2010), pp. 214-215.
E. A. Mathieson, Christian women in the Greek papyri of Egypt to 400 CE (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols 2014), pp. 17-18, and passim.
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)
- Names:
- Abinnaeus, Flavius, Præfectus Castrorum at Dionysias, in Egypt, 325-375
- Places:
- Dionysias (Qasr Qarun), meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza), Egypt - Related Material:
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The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Abinnaeus, commander of the fortress at Dionysias (TM Arch ID 1).