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Papyrus 728
- Record Id:
- 040-002105115
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003ba
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462925.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 728
- Title:
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Receipt for Payment (P.Grenf. II 100, P.Lond. III 728 descr., TM 41306)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragmentary receipt from Aurelius Cosmas to Victor, representative of the dux Ioseph, acknowledging a money payment. Details are obscure owing to the loss of the text. With subscription of Cosmas and two witnesses and the notarial subscription at the end, and docket on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105115 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 728 : Receipt for Payment (P.Grenf. II 100, P.Lond. III 728 descr., TM 41306) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0422]/040-002105115
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, darker in places, lacking part of its left half and with holes in the preserved portion; written on both sides along the fibres. On the back there is one line, of which only the beginning survives. The front bears 24 lines, many of which lack the beginnings. Margins are extant, the side and upper being minimal. Folding lines are visible. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462925.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0683
- End Date:
- 0683
- Date Range:
- 26 July 683
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 337 x 114 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 390 x 170 mm.
Script: Proficient cursive hand of small size, sloping to the right, somewhat irregular in size; lines are slightly uneven; the subscription at the end is more upright and larger and exhibits flourishes.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), 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:
- P.Grenf. II 100
P.Lond. III 728 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. 542.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 150-151, no. 100.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxix, no. 728 descr.
J. Gascou, K. A. Worp, ‘Problèmes de documentation Apollinopolite’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 49 (1982), pp. 83-95 (p. 90).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 143.
Z. M. Packman, ‘Further Notes on Texts with the Imperial Oath’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 90 (1992), p. 258.
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2004), pp. 72, 293.
K. A. Worp, ‘On the Aureliate of Clergy and Monks’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 151 (2005), pp. 145-152 (pp. 148-149).
C. Foss, ‘Egypt under Muʿāwiya Part II: Middle Egypt, Fusṭāṭ and Alexandria’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 72 (2009), pp. 259-278 (p. 267).
G. Schenke, The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database, no. E06116 - http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?recid=E06116
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)