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Papyrus 435
- Record Id:
- 040-002104806
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000f7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143127971.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 435
- Title:
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Accounts from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 73, SB VIII 9694, TM 32684)
- Scope & Content:
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Accounts headed ‘exaction of barley’, arranged in two columns; each column lists names and sums stated in talents. The total for a day is given in column 2, line 18; further accounts follow. The columns are preceded by three mutilated lines which contain names.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104806 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 435 : Accounts from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 73, SB VIII 9694, TM 32684) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0304]/040-002104806
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; damaged at the left, in the upper margin and along the vertical folds. The surface is darker in the upper portion of the sheet. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143127971.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0350
- End Date:
- 0350
- Date Range:
- mid 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials Papyrus.
Dimensions: 170 x 162 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 320 x 220 mm.
Script: Small, irregular 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:
- P.Abinn. 73
P.Lond. II 435 descr.
SB VIII 9694 - 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. 448.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. xxxix, no. 435 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. 151-154, no. 73.
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), pp. 27-29, no. 9694.
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.
W. J. Cherf, ‘What’s in a Name? The Gerontii of the Later Roman Empire’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994), pp. 145-174 (pp. 152, 156).
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)
- Names:
- Abinnaeus, Flavius, Præfectus Castrorum at Dionysias, in Egypt, 325-375
- Places:
- Dionysias (Qasr Qarun), meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
Hermopolis, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza), Egypt - Related Material:
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The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Abinnaeus, commander of the fortress at Dionysias (TM Arch ID 1).