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Papyrus 721
- Record Id:
- 040-002105108
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003b3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462879.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 721
- Title:
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Receipt for Payment (P.Grenf. II 81a, P.Lond. III 721 descr., TM 22637)
- Scope & Content:
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Receipt issued by Aurelius Apion, chief pilot, acknowledging that Aurelius Senuthes has paid the wages for a substitute who would replace him as an oarsman of the governor’s boat. With Apion’s subscription at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105108 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 721 : Receipt for Payment (P.Grenf. II 81a, P.Lond. III 721 descr., TM 22637) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0415]/040-002105108
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, darkened in places, lacking part of the bottom, with few holes and white residue on the surface. On the front there is one column of 19 lines, the last being quite effaced. Side and upper margins are extant, the lower margin is damaged. A sheet-join running along the height of the sheet is visible in the right edge. The writing on the back is effaced. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462879.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0403
- End Date:
- 0403
- Date Range:
- 27 October 403
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 293 x 194 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 345 x 240 mm.
Script: Neat, large and thin cursive hand, with a slant to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Panopolis (Akhmim), Panopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Panopolis (Akhmim), Panopolite nome, Egypt. Found with Papyri 719-722. 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 81a
P.Lond. III 721 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), pp. 540-541.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), p. 130, no. 81a.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxviii, no. 721 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 192.
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, ‘Further Chronological Notes on Byzantine Documents’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 56 (1984), pp. 127-136 (p. 129).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 62.
J. G. Keenan, ‘'Die Binnenwanderung’ in Byzantine Egypt’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 42 (2001), pp. 57-82 (p. 76).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 87.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)