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Papyrus 701
- Record Id:
- 040-002105088
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00035f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462708.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 701
- Title:
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Receipt for Wage Payment (P.Grenf. II 43, P.Lond. III 701 descr., TM 11326)
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of a receipt acknowledging the payment of 80 drachmas made through the bank of Sarapion in Arsinoe by Tesenouphis, chief of police (archephodus) of Soknopaiou Nesos, to Hathres, a guard in the metropolis, as a wage for two months.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105088 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 701 : Receipt for Wage Payment (P.Grenf. II 43, P.Lond. III 701 descr., TM 11326) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0395]/040-002105088
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, almost complete, lacking part of the lower edge, and damaged by small insect holes and minor abrasion. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There is one column of 17 lines, the last of which is indented. 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_100147462708.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0092
- End Date:
- 0092
- Date Range:
- 9 June 92
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 250 x 89 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 310 x 145 mm.
Script: Thin, rapid cursive hand of medium size, rich in ligatures, somewhat uneven and irregular in size, exhibiting some enlarged letters at the beginnings of the lines.
- 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 688-731 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in November 1896.
- Former External References:
- P.Grenf. II 43
P.Lond. III 701 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. 537.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 69-70, no. 43.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxvi, no. 701 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 187.
D. Sperber, ‘Costs of Living in Roman Palestine II (Continued)’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 9 (1966), pp. 182-211 (p. 188).
R. Bogaert, ‘Liste géographique des banques et des banquiers de l’Égypte romaine, 30a-284’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 109 (1995), pp. 133-173 (p. 142).
C. Homoth-Kuhs, Phylakes und Phylakon-Steuer im griechisch-römischen Ägypten: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des antiken Sicherheitswesens (München: Saur 2005), pp. 40-41, 58, 62, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)