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Papyrus 698
- Record Id:
- 040-002105085
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00035c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462682.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 698
- Title:
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Tax-Receipts (P.Grenf. II 39, Chrest.Wilck. 310, P.Lond. III 698 descr., TM 4401)
- Scope & Content:
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Twelve receipts issued by Psammetichus to Pasion and Sentheus, brewers, acknowledging the payments of 5 talents for each month on account of the tax on beer. The fragment of the right-hand side contains remains of the first two receipts for the months of Thoth and Phaophi. The third receipt, issued for the month of Hathyr, of which only the ends of three lines survive here, is preserved in a Berlin papyrus published as BGU XIV 2379.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105085 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 698 : Tax-Receipts (P.Grenf. II 39, Chrest.Wilck. 310, P.Lond. III 698 descr., TM 4401) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0392]/040-002105085
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus roll with detached fragment, which comes from beginning of the roll; broken off at the top and with holes throughout the preserved portion; the fragment breaks off at the bottom too. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are portions of three columns, with three lines from a preceding column; on the fragment there are remains of one column, for a total of four columns. Sheet-joins running along the heigth of the roll are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462682.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0099
- End Date:
- -0000
- Date Range:
- 1st century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 224 x 364 mm; detached fragment: 85 x 80 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 285 x 495 mm.
Script: Thin and neat cursive hand of small size, with letters slightly slanting to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 688-731 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in November 1896.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 310
P.Grenf. II 39
P.Lond. III 698 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. 536.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 65-66, no. 39, with pl. IV.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxvi, no. 698 descr.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 369, no. 310.
J. Hengstl, Griechische Papyri aus Ägypten als Zeugnisse des öffentlichen und privaten Lebens (München: Heimeran Verlag 1978), pp. 73-75, no. 22.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)