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Papyrus 415
- Record Id:
- 040-002104786
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000ab
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127641.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 415
- Title:
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Letter of Plutammon to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 15, P.Lond. II 415, TM 10017)
- Scope & Content:
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A fragmentary letter to Abinnaeus from Plutammon, who requests that thirty malefactors of unknown identity from the village of Hermopolis, who allegedly committed an outrage on Plutammon’s grandson, be handed over to the dux.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104786 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 415 : Letter of Plutammon to Abinnaeus (P.Abinn. 15, P.Lond. II 415, TM 10017) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0730]/040-002104786
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, lacking the left-hand half and with a few holes; darker in the upper right edge. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; the right margin and the right-hand part of the upper and lower margins survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143127641.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0344
- 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: 247 x 99 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 300 x 130 mm.
Script: Large upright cursive hand.
- 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. 15
P.Lond. II 415 - 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. 282-283, no. 415.
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. 59-60, no. 15.
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.
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)