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Papyrus 447
- Record Id:
- 040-002104818
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000133
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468685.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 447
- Title:
- Draft of a Petition (P.Abinn. 1, P.Lond. II 447 ro. descr., TM 10014) and Hermias’ Account of Grain and Barley (P.Abinn. 78, SB VIII 9696, P.Lond. II 447 vo. descr., TM 32687)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Abinn. 1, P.Lond. II 447 ro. descr., TM 10014): Draft of a petition addressed to the emperors Constantius and Constans from Abinnaeus, who summarises his career, and focuses on the time when he conducted the refugees of the Blemyes to Constantinople, as well as on his appointment as prefect of the ala of Dionysias.
Verso (P.Abinn. 78, SB VIII 9696, P.Lond. III 447 vo. descr., TM 32687): Accounts belonging to a person named Hermias: the first one – corresponding to column 1 – concerns grain (lines 1-12); the second one, in column 2, concerns barley (lines 13-22).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104818 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 447 : Draft of a Petition (P.Abinn. 1, P.Lond. II 447 ro. descr., TM 10014) and Hermias’ Account of Grain and Barley (P.Abinn. 78, SB… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0316]/040-002104818
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus roll, pale brown, broken off at the top, written on both sides. The recto bears one column of 15 lines, the verso two columns of 22 lines, complete. On the front the preserved margins are the right (40 mm), lower (45 mm) and left (40 mm). The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0340
- End Date:
- 0342
- Date Range:
- 340-342
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 292 x 515 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 345 x 560 mm.
Script:: recto: Latin hands. The script of hand 1 – which is likely to belong to Abinnaeus’ secretary – is one of the first examples of fully formed new Roman cursive, and it is characterised by frequent ligatures, by some larger letters (c, d, e, g, h), and by the tendency to extend strokes at the end of the line. Hand 2, less elegant, is faster in execution. Verso: Greek hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Dionysias, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 401-446 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 15 May 1893.
- Former External References:
- P.Abinn. 1
P.Abinn. 78
P.Lond. II 447 ro.
P.Lond. II 447 vo.
SB VIII 9696 - 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.
Recto
Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Vol. II (London: Trustees 1898), pp. xxxix, no. 447 descr.
Corpus Papyrorum Latinarum (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1956), pp. 373-374, no. 265.
The Abinnaeus Archive: Papers of a Roman Officer in the Reign of Constantius II (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1962), pp. 34-37, no. 1.
Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-edition of the Latin Charters Prior to the Ninth Century (Olten-Lausanne: Urs Graf 1963), pp. 76-79, no. 202.
Corpus Epistularum Latinarum, papyris tabulis ostracis servatarum (Florence: Gonnelli 1992), pp. 247-248, no. 226.
Verso
Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Vol. II (London: Trustees 1898), pp. xxxix, no. 447 descr.
The Abinnaeus Archive: Papers of a Roman Officer in the Reign of Constantius II (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1962), p. 160, no. 78.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band VIII (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1967), p. 31, no. 9696.
Metadata provided by the PLATINUM project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement nº 636983), University of Naples 'Federico II'.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)