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Papyrus 650
- Record Id:
- 040-002105034
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00030c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129178.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 650
- Title:
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Tax Receipt (P.Grenf. I 50, P.Lond. III 650 descr., TM 11319)
- Scope & Content:
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Receipt issued by Aurelius Harpocration, tax collector, acknowleding the payment of 76 drachmas made by Philoxas through Diogenes, comarch of Tanis and Philadelphia. With Harpocration’s subscription at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105034 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 650 : Tax Receipt (P.Grenf. I 50, P.Lond. III 650 descr., TM 11319) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0978]/040-002105034
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete, displaying minor abrasion in the left portion. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are 10 lines, which occupy less than half of the sheet. All margins are extant, with the blank space at the bottom measuring 135 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143129178.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0260
- End Date:
- 0260
- Date Range:
- 24 October 260
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 212 x 83 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 260 x 130 mm.
Script: Thin, rapid cursive hand, with a slight slant to the right; different hand for the subscription in the last line, smaller and uneven.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 605-649 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 9 November 1895.
- Former External References:
- P.Grenf. I 50
P.Lond. III 650 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. 83-84, no. 50.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxii, no. 650 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 182-183, 463.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 96.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aurelius Harpocration, tax collector (apaitetes) in the Arsinoite nome, mid 3rd century
Diogenes, comarch of Tanis and Philadelphia, fl Mid 3rd century
Philoxas, gymnasiarch, mid 3rd century - Places:
- Arsinoite nome (Fayum), Egypt