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Papyrus 419
- Record Id:
- 040-002104790
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000b7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127724.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 419
- Title:
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Petition from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 54, P.Lond. II 419 descr., SB VIII 9691, TM 10045)
- Scope & Content:
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A fragmentary petition from Flavius Agathus, who accuses some individuals and complains about a police officer's (eirenarch) negligence due to the fact that his son was among the perpetrators.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104790 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 419 : Petition from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 54, P.Lond. II 419 descr., SB VIII 9691, TM 10045) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0734]/040-002104790
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragmentary papyrus sheet, mutilated at the top and left and damaged throughout, with the surface abraded in places and a few holes in the preserved portion. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; parts of thirty-three lines are preserved. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143127724.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0346
- End Date:
- 0346
- Date Range:
- 346
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 252 x 106 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 300 x 150 mm.
Script: Medium-sized cursive hand, with a slant to the right.
- 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:
- P.Abinn. 54
P.Lond. II 419 descr.
SB VIII 9691 - 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), p. xxxviii, no. 419 descr.
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.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1967), p. 24, no. 9691.
R. Rémondon, ‘Un papyrus inedit des archives d'Abinnaeus (P. Berlin inv. 11624’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 18 (1974), pp. 33-37 (pp. 34, 36).
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. Sänger, ‘Die Eirenarchen im römischen und byzantinischen Ägypten’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 20 (2005), pp. 143-204 (p. 183).
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 n. 39, and passim).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)