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Papyrus 427
- Record Id:
- 040-002104798
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000cf
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127829.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 427
- Title:
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Accounts from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 68, P.Lond. II 427, TM 10056-10057)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (TM 10056):
Accounts in two columns, with personal names and amounts of artabas of wheat listed by villages.
Verso (TM 10057)
Account of Dioscorus, sackmaker, for the month of Mecheir of an unknown year, written in different hands and cancelled by cross strokes. Some lines were washed out.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104798 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 427 : Accounts from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 68, P.Lond. II 427, TM 10056-10057) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0296]/040-002104798
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, fully preserved, written on both sides, along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso. The surface is damaged in places and the writing is washed out occasionally. The recto contains two columns, the first of which much defaced, the second fully preserved; the verso has a complete column, crossed out, and remains of text washed out. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143127829.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0348
- End Date:
- 0351
- Date Range:
- 348-351
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 235 x 160 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 310 x 205 mm.
Script: Different hands. Recto: Upright hand of fair size; Verso: Various hands, with the month in line 1 written in a small rapid cursive hand, and the document written in larger cursive hands.
- 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. 68
P.Lond. II 427 - 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. 447.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 311-312, no. 427.
B. Ollson, ‘Die Gewerbenamen auf -α̃ς in den Papyri’, Aegyptus 6 (1925), pp. 247-249 (p. 248).
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. 144-146, no. 68.
D. Sperber, ‘Costs of Living in Roman Palestine: III’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 11 (1968), pp. 233-274 (p. 271).
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.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 2.
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)