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Papyrus 417
- Record Id:
- 040-002104788
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000ad
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127671.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 417
- Title:
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Letter to Abinnaeus on a Deserter (P.Abinn. 32, P.Lond. II 417, Chrest.Wilck. 129, TM 10029)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter addressed to Abinnaeus from Caor, clergyman of Hermopolis, who urges the recipient to forgive Paulus, a soldier who had deserted, as Caor is not able to pay a visit to Abinnaeus on that day.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104788 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 417 : Letter to Abinnaeus on a Deserter (P.Abinn. 32, P.Lond. II 417, Chrest.Wilck. 129, TM 10029) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0735]/040-002104788
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fully preserved papyrus sheet, light-brown in its lower half, lacking the lower left edge. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. 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_100143127671.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- 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: 255 x 8 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 305 x 125 mm.
Script: Rapid cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis, 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:
- Chrest.Wilck. 129
P.Abinn. 32
P.Lond. II 417
Sel.Pap. I 161 - 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. 446.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 299-300, no. 417.
G. Milligan, Selections from the Greek Papyri (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1910, repr. 1912, 1927), pp. 123-124, no. 51.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 156-157, no. 129.
W. Schubart, Ein Jahrtausend am Nil. Briefe aus dem Altertum (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchandlung 1912), p. 93, and Ein Jahrtausend am Nil; Briefe aus dem Altertum (Berlin: Weidmann 1923), p. 94.
A. Deissmann, Licht vom Osten: das Neue Testament und die neuentdeckten Texte der hellenistisch-römischen Welt (Tübingen: Mohr 19234), pp. 183-185, no. 24.
W. Crönert, 'De critici arte in papyris exercendi', in Raccolta di scritti in onore di Giacomo Lumbroso, 1844-1925 (Milano: Aegyptus 1925), pp. 439-534 (p. 528).
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 380-383, no. 161.
J. G. Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1933), pp. 151-153.
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. 113-115, no. 54.
R. Rémondon, ‘Militaires et civils dans une campagne égyptienne au temps de Constance II’, Journal des Savants Année 1 (1965), pp. 132-143.
H. Metzger, Nachrichten aus dem Wüstensand: eine Sammlung von Papyruszeugnissen (Zürich: Artemis 1974), no. 75.
R. Rémondon, ‘Un papyrus inedit des archives d'Abinnaeus (P. Berlin inv. 11624)’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 18 (1974), pp. 33-37 (p. 37).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 1.
A. Martin, ‘L'Église et la khôra égyptienne au IV” siècle', Revue des Études Augustiniennes 25 (1979), pp. 3-26 (p. 21).
G. Tibiletti, Le lettere private nei papiri greci del III e IV secolo d.C.: tra paganesimo e cristianesimo (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1979), no. 24.
M. Naldini, Il cristianesimo in Egitto. Lettere private nei papiri dei secoli II-IV (Firenze: Nardini 19982), pp. 189-190 no. 40.
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.
P. Guyot, R. Klein, Das frühe Christentum bis zum Ende der Verfolgungen: Eine Dokumentation. Band 2: Die Christen in der heidnischen Gesellschaft (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1994), pp. 64-65.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 4.
G. Schmelz, Kirchliche Amtsträger im spätantiken Ägypten: nach den Aussagen der griechischen und koptischen Papyri und Ostraka (München: K.G. Saur 2002), p. 260.
R. Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus: vie quotidienne (Paris: Pygmalion 2003), p. 90 no. 37.
Ph. Sabin, H. van Wees, M.Whitby, M.l J. Whitby, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Volume 2, p. 435.
AM. Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus papyri (Cambridge, Mass.-London: Harvard University Press 2008), p. 97 n. 53.
A. M. Kaiser, ‘Die Fahndung nach Deserteuren im spätantiken Ägypten’, in Paul Schubert (ed.), Actes du 26e Congrès international de papyrology, Genève 16-21 août 2010 (Genève: Droz 2012), pp. 381-390 (pp. 382-382).
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)