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Papyrus 1021
- Record Id:
- 040-002104860
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001bc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100142973925.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1021
- Title:
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Account (ZPE 209, p. 239, P.Lond. III 1021 descr., TM 38239)
- Scope & Content:
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Account of Silvanus and his sons, with Asclepiades, a military (optio), listing the surplus of the previous indiction and a money payment made by the weighmaster Mathias through an intermediary.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104860 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1021 : Account (ZPE 209, p. 239, P.Lond. III 1021 descr., TM 38239) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0999]/040-002104860
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, square-shaped, complete and well preserved, with minor damage in places and light-coloured in the middle. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank; there are 6 complete lines. All margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100142973925.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0502
- End Date:
- 0503
- Date Range:
- 502/503?
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 146 x 136 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 200 x 185 mm.
Script: Large, rapid cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 884-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 1021 descr.
ZPE 209, p. 239 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 441.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. liii, no. 1021 descr.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘An Important Family in VIth Century Hermupolis’, Hellenika 40 (1989), pp. 381-383.
J. G. Keenan, ‘Soldier and Civilian in Byzantine Hermopolis’, in A. Bülow-Jakobsen (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrology. Copenhagen, 23-29 August 1992 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 1994), pp. 444-451 (pp. 449-450).
N. Kruit, ‘Three Byzantine Sales for Future Delivery SB XVI 12401 + 12402, SB VI 9051, P.Lond. III 997’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 9 (1994), pp. 67-88 (pp. 82-83, n. 65).
N. Gonis, ‘Soldiers and Money in Early Sixth-Century Hermopolis’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 209 (2019), pp. 237-241.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Flavius Silvanus, soldier of the unit of the Moors, 1st half of 6th century
- Related Material:
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The papyrus belongs to the Archive of the Soldiers of the numerus of the Mauri (TM Arch ID 223).