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Papyrus 703
- Record Id:
- 040-002105090
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003a1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462722.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 703
- Title:
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Application for Verification of Status (P.Grenf. II 49, P.Lond. III 703 descr., TM 11333)
- Scope & Content:
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Didymus and his wife Isis, residents of a quarter of Arsinoe, state that their son Anubas has entered his fourteenth year and apply for verification of his social and fiscal status, providing a list of the past census returns. With subscription of Apollonius, former exegetes and gymnasiarch, through the scribe Didas at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105090 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 703 : Application for Verification of Status (P.Grenf. II 49, P.Lond. III 703 descr., TM 11333) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0397]/040-002105090
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, darkened in places, broken off at the top and left, and lacking part of the lower margin; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are 17 lines, some of which lack the beginnings; the beginning of the text is not preserved. Part of the lower margin survives; no margin was left to the right; the other margins are lost. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462722.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0141
- End Date:
- 0141
- Date Range:
- 20 December 141
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 167 x 132 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 220 x 185 mm.
Script: Neat, thin upright cursive hand, somewhat smaller and more cursive in places; different hand from the end of line 14, more cursive, larger and with a slight slant to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt.
Provenance: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), 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:
- P.Grenf. II 49
P.Lond. III 703 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. 77-79, no. 49.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxvii, no. 703 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 188, 463.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 38.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)