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Papyrus 649
- Record Id:
- 040-002105033
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00030b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129167.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 649
- Title:
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Receipt for Barley (P.Grenf. I 48, Chrest.Wilck. 416, P.Lond. III 649 descr., TM 11318)
- Scope & Content:
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Didymus Argentius, cavalry soldier of the Ala Veterana Gallica, acknowledges receipt of barley, for which he has paid the usual price, from Stotoetis and the other elders of Soknopaiou Nesos. With dating clause at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105033 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 649 : Receipt for Barley (P.Grenf. I 48, Chrest.Wilck. 416, P.Lond. III 649 descr., TM 11318) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0977]/040-002105033
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete and very well preserved, displaying minor surface damage in the upper half; writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are 21 complete lines; margins are extant and not wide. Horizontal folds are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143129167.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0191
- End Date:
- 0191
- Date Range:
- 22 June 191
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 150 x 67 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 115 mm.
Script: Rough, large and irregular hand, with detached letters.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome. 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. 416
P.Grenf. I 48
P.Lond. III 649 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. 528.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian Erotic Fragment and Other Greek Papyri Chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 80-81, no. 48.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxii, no. 649 descr.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 494-495, no. 416.
S. Daris, Documenti per la storia dell'esercito romano in Egitto (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1964), p. 136, no. 55.
C. E. P. Adams, ‘Supplying the Roman Army: "Q. Petr." 245’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 109 (1995), pp. 119-124 (p. 124, n. 32).
F. Mitthof, Annona militaris: die Heeresversorgung im spätantiken Ägypten: ein Beitrag zur Verwaltungs- und Heeresgeschichte des Römischen Reiches im 3. bis 6. Jh. n. Chr. (Firenze: Edizioni Gonnelli 2001), pp. 319-320.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)