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Papyrus 731
- Record Id:
- 040-002105118
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003bd
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462946.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 731
- Title:
- Military Receipt ( ChLA III 205, P.Grenf. II 110, TM 69873)
- Scope & Content:
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This receipt for money concerns cavalrymen of an unknown unit. Although the exact nature of the payment is not expressed in the surviving text, the word fides in line 4 points to a fiduciary transaction. Perhaps such payment was needed for food supplies.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105118 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 731 : Military Receipt ( ChLA III 205, P.Grenf. II 110, TM 69873) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0425]/040-002105118
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragment from a papyrus roll, broken to the left. The document is written on the recto, along the fibres. The verso is blank. Portions of six lines survive. The light-brown papyrus preserves the top (18 mm), the right (7 mm), and the bottom (52 mm) margins. The black ink is faded in the right edge and is darker in lines 4-6. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462946.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0293
- End Date:
- 0293
- Date Range:
- 293
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 120 x132 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 175 x 185 mm.
Script: Small and clear new Roman cursive. Lines 1-3 were drawn by a former scribe with thin traits. In this hand, some letters have the shape of the ancient Roman cursive (see l in l. 2, and a in l. 4). The average height of letters is 2/4 mm.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 688-730 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 14 November 1896.
- Former External References:
- CPL 142
ChLA III 205
P.Grenf. II 110
Rom.Mil.Rec. 86 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: Trustees of British Museum 1912), p. 542
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, Greek Papyri. Series II: New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), p. 159, pl. V no. CX.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxix
J. Mallon, R. Marichal, Ch. Perrat, L’écriture latine de la capitale romaine à la minuscule (Paris: Art et métier graphiques 18, 1939), plate xxi no. 30.
R. Marichal, Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-Edition of the Latin Charters, III Great Britain 1 (Lausanne: Urs Graf 1963), pp. 86-87, no. 205
R. O. Fink, Roman Military Records on Papyrus. The American Philological Association, Monograph 26 (Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University 1971), p. 347, no. 86
T. Dorandi et al., Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-Edition of the Latin Charters, XLVIII Corrigenda (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag 1997), p. 21, no. 205.
Metadata provided by the PLATINUM project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement nº 636983), University of Naples 'Federico II'.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)