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Papyrus 412
- Record Id:
- 040-002104783
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000080
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127580.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 412
- Title:
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Petition of Heron to Abinnaeus on Burglary (P.Abinn. 55, P.Lond. II 412, TM 10046)
- Scope & Content:
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A petition to Flavius Abinnaeus, ex protector and prefect of the ala at Dionysias, from Aurelius Heron, deacon of the village of Berenikis. Heron accuses a certain Euporus of the village of Philagris of burglary. Euporus allegedly stole Heron’s clothing. He should be apprehended.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104783 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 412 : Petition of Heron to Abinnaeus on Burglary (P.Abinn. 55, P.Lond. II 412, TM 10046) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0726]/040-002104783
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, with a pattern of wormholes in its lower half and incomplete at the bottom; the surface is abraded in places. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. 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_100143127580.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0351
- End Date:
- 0351
- Date Range:
- 11 February 351
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 253 x 212 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 305 x 275 mm.
Script: Large, upright hand, more cursive at the end in the final greeting and date.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Berenikis Aigialou, 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. 55
P.Lond. II 412 - 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. 279-280, no. 412.
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.115-116, no. 55.
R. Rémondon, ‘Militaires et civils dans une campagne égyptienne au temps de Constance II’, Journal des Savants Année 1 (1965), pp. 132-143.
A. Martin, ‘L'Église et la khôra égyptienne au IV” siècle', Revue des Études Augustiniennes 25 (1979), pp. 3-26 (p. 17).
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.
J. Diethart, ‘Lexikographische Lesefrüchte’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123 (1998), pp. 165-176 (p. 168).
C. Grey, Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2011), p. 125.
J.-U. Krause, Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung Heft 108: Gewalt und Kriminalität in der Spätantike (München: Beck 2014), p. 100, 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. 471).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)