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Papyrus 445
- Record Id:
- 040-002104816
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000131
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128058.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 445
- Title:
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Petition to the Strategus (P.Lond. II 445, TM 11747)
- Scope & Content:
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A fragmentary petition addressed to Dionysodorus, strategus of the Arsinoite nome, from Psenatymis, farmer of Bakchias in the property of Livia and Germanicus, against some shepherds of the same village.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104816 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 445 : Petition to the Strategus (P.Lond. II 445, TM 11747) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0314]/040-002104816
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragmentary papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom and damaged along the horizontal folds; writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. Upper, left and right margins survive, the side margins being minimal. 25 lines remain, some of which are mutilated. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128058.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0014
- End Date:
- 0019
- Date Range:
- 14-19
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 190 x 86 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 240 x 140 mm.
Script: Neat and overall regular cursive hand of medium size, occasionally compressed at the end of the lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Bakchias, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Bakchias, meris of Herakleides, 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.Lond. II 445
- 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. 449.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 166-167, no. 445.
M. I. Rostovtzeff, Studien zur Geschichte des römischen Kolonates (Leipzig-Berlin: B.G. Teubner 1910), pp. 121, 122, 125, and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 257.
G. Bastianini, J. Whitehorne, Strategi and Royal Scribes of Roman Egypt. Chronological list and index (Firenze: 1987), p. 20, n. 4.
N. Lewis, ‘Notationes Legentis’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 11 (1974), pp. 44-59 (pp. 52-54, no. 6).
A. A. Barrett, Livia: first lady of Imperial Rome (New Haven: Yale University Press 2002), p. 294.
F. Mitthof, ‘Bemerkungen zu Papyri XV 397-476’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 17 (2002), pp. 241-259 (p. 248, no. 432).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 111.
T. Derda, Ἀρσινοΐτης νομός. Administration of the Fayum under Roman Rule, Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplements 7 (Warsaw: Faculty of Law and Administration, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlag 2006), p. 89.
R. Mascellari, ‘Note a petizioni di epoca romana’, Analecta Papyrologica 21-22 (2009-2010), pp. 137-147 (pp. 142-143).
H. Harrauer, Handbuch der griechischen Paläographie. Textband (Stuttgart: Hiersemann 2010), p. 254, no. 71.
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 346.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)