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Papyrus 722
- Record Id:
- 040-002105109
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003b4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462887.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 722
- Title:
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Official Letter (P.Grenf. II 82, P.Lond. III 722 descr., TM 22638)
- Scope & Content:
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Victor and Colluthus, serving on the gubernatorial boat, write to another Victor and others, complaining about the fact that they had imposed a compulsory service on Aurelius Senuthes, and urging them to release him. Senuthes was in fact expected to perform another service, inherited from his father, and serve as an oarsman in the governor’s boat. With final greetings repeated twice, and docket on the back. Traces of an earlier text are visible on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105109 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 722 : Official Letter (P.Grenf. II 82, P.Lond. III 722 descr., TM 22638) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0416]/040-002105109
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, darkened in places, lacking the bottom left corner and with few holes, but well preserved as to the rest. White residue is visible on the back.
Writing runs on both sides: on the front there is one column of 29 lines written along the fibres. Margins are extant and minimal, with the exception of the left margin, which measures x mm. A sheet-join running along the height of the sheet is visible in the right edge. On the back there was one column written across the fibres, which was erased, and two lines written along the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462887.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0395
- End Date:
- 0405
- Date Range:
- c. 400
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: x mm; housed in a glass frame measuring x mm.
Script: Neat, thin cursive hand of medium size, with a slight slant to the right. Rough and irregular hand, sloping to the right, for the greetings in lines 24-29.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Panopolis (Akhmim), Panopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Panopolis (Akhmim), Panopolite nome, Egypt. Found with Papyri 719-721. 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 82
P.Lond. III 722 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. 541.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 131-132, no. 82.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxviii, no. 722 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 192.
W. Schubart, Ein Jahrtausend am Nil. Briefe aus dem Altertum (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchandlung 1912), p. 94, and Ein Jahrtausend am Nil; Briefe aus dem Altertum (Berlin: Weidmann 1923), p. 95.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 72.
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)