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Papyrus 646
- Record Id:
- 040-002105030
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000308
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129132.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 646
- Title:
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Declaration (P.Grenf. I 45, Chrest.Wilck. 200a, P.Lond. III 646 descr., TM 11315)
- Scope & Content:
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Declaration addressed to Apollonius, village scribe of Theadelphia, from Pnepheros, public farmer, aged 63, who registers himself for the current year. With official docket at the end, dated to 27 April of the same year.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105030 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 646 : Declaration (P.Grenf. I 45, Chrest.Wilck. 200a, P.Lond. III 646 descr., TM 11315) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0975]/040-002105030
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete, damaged by few small insect holes; with light-coloured patches. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank; there are 14 lines, complete. All margins are extant; no margin was left to the right. Folding lines are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143129132.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0019
- End Date:
- -0019
- Date Range:
- 28 January 19 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 164 x 70 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 210 x 115 mm.
Script: Small cursive hand; different cursive hand in the last line, in darker ink.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 605-650 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 9 November 1895.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 200a
P.Grenf. I 45
P.Lond. III 646 descr. - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), p. 527.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian Erotic Fragment and Other Greek Papyri Chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 77-78, no. 45.
U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien: ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte I (Leipzig-Berlin: Gieseke & Devrient, 1899), p. 450.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri III (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1903), pp. 209-210.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 2 (1903), pp. 385-396 (pp. 395-396).
U. Wilcken, ‘Zu P. Grenfell I und II’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 3 (1906), pp. 119-126 (p. 120).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxii, no. 646 descr.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 233, no. 200a.
S. L. Wallace, ‘Census and Poll-Tax under the Ptolemies’, American Journal of Philology 59 (1938), pp. 418-442 (p. 432).
D. Rathbone, ‘Egypt, Augustus and Roman taxation’, Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz 4 (1993), pp. 81-112 (p. 87, n. 17, and passim)
R. S. Bagnall, Hellenistic and Roman Egypt: Sources and Approaches (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum 2006), p. 256.
W. G. Claytor, R. S. Bagnall, ‘The Beginnings of the Roman Provincial Census: A New Declaration from 3 BCE’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 55 (2015), pp. 637-653 (p. 643, n. 21; p. 644, n. 27).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)