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Papyrus 482
- Record Id:
- 040-002104853
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001b6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128519.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 482
- Title:
- Receipt for Hay for Cavalrymen (ChLA III 203, TM 78865)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter to acknowledge receipt of hay written by Serenus, perhaps the same cavalryman mentioned in line 25, and concerning cavalrymen of the squadron (turma) of Donacianus, of the ala veterana Gallica. The full list of the cavalrymen of the squadron, recorded by their nomina only, follows.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104853 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 482 : Receipt for Hay for Cavalrymen (ChLA III 203, TM 78865) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0351]/040-002104853
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus sheet, written on the recto along the fibres, the verso being blank. The top (4 mm), the right (3 mm), the left (4 mm), and the bottom (27 mm) margins are preserved. One column of 38 lines is fully preserved. The ink is brown. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128519.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0130
- End Date:
- 0130
- Date Range:
- May 130
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 206 x 88 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 250 x 135 mm.
Script: Small and informal old Roman cursive. The average height of letters is 2/3 mm.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Presented by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) on 25 June 1894.
- Former External References:
- CEL I 150
CPL 142
ChLA III 203
P.Lond. II 482 descr.
Rom.Mil.Rec. 80 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: Trustees of British Museum 1901), p. 498.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. xlii, no. 482.
J. Lesquier, L’armée romaine d’Egypte d’Auguste a Diocletien (Le Caire: Institute français d’archèologie orientale 1918), p. 503.
J. Mallon, R. Marichal, Ch. Perrat, L’écriture latine de la capitale romaine à la minuscule (Paris: Art et métier graphiques 18, 1939), plate xii no. 18.
R. Marichal, Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-Edition of the Latin Charters, III Great Britain 1 (Lausanne: Urs Graf 1963), pp. 82-83, no. 203.
R. O. Fink, Roman Military Records on Papyrus. The American Philological Association, Monograph 26 (Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University 1971), pp. 333-335, no. 80.
R. Seider, Paläographie der lateinischen Papyri, Bd. I Urkunden (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann 1972), pp. 70-71 no. 27, with tafel xiv.
M. P. Speidel, ‘Thracian Horsemen in Egypt’s Ala Veterana Gallica (P.Lond. inv. 482)’, Bulletin of American Society of Papyrologists 19 (1982), pp. 167-169 (= Id., Roman Army Studies, Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben 1984), pp. 333-335.
T. Dorandi et al., Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-Edition of the Latin Charters, XLVIII Corrigenda (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag 1997), p. 20, no. 203.
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)