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Papyrus 413
- Record Id:
- 040-002104784
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000081
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127601.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 413
- Title:
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Letter of Apa Mios to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 6, P.Lond. II 413, TM 10051)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter to Abinnaeus from Apa Mios, who requests that some nets be dispatched to him for a few days in order to catch the gazelles that are destroying the crops. He also informs the recipient that he has sent a hyena’s skin through an intermediary. The signature is at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104784 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 413 : Letter of Apa Mios to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 6, P.Lond. II 413, TM 10051) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0727]/040-002104784
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, with holes especially in the left portion along the vertical folds; the surface is abraded in places and occasionally the top layer of horizontal fibres is missing. Writing runs along the fibres on one side. 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_100143127601.0x000001 (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: x mm.
Script: Slightly sloping hand, with capital letters and a few ligatured sequences; second hand at the end of line 26, for the signature, unexperienced and irregular. Nomina sacra occur, in two cases (lines 2, 27) contracted.
- 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. 6
P.Lond. II 413 - 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. 301-302, no. 413.
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.44-46, no. 6.
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. 1.
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.
S. N. C. Lieu, D. Montserrat, Constantine: history, historiography, and legend (London-New York: Routledge 1998), p. 22.
C. Gallazzi, ‘Dove è stato ritrovato l’archivio di Abinneo?’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 61 (2015), pp. 170-179.
M. Choat, M. Giorda, Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Leiden-Boston: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 47.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)