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Papyrus 755
- Record Id:
- 040-002105144
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003d5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472077.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 755
- Title:
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Petitions to the Prefect (P.Oxy. I 71, TM 12591, 12592, 704823), and Inventory of Columns (P.Bagnall 43, TM 33771)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Oxy. I 71)
Column 1 (TM 12591): Petition to the prefect Clodius Culcianus from Aurelius Demetrius, son of Nilus, former high-priest in Arsinoe, asking for the prefect’s help in order to recover the money he had lent to Aurelius Sotas, who had refused to pay back the loan. Dated 28 February 303.
Column 2 (TM 12592): Petition to the prefect Clodius Culcianus from a widow whose name is damaged, complaining about the conduct of the managers of her estate in the Arsinoite nome, whom she had hired while her sons were in the army.
Column 3 (TM 704823): Beginning of another petition, of which little remains. Unpublished.
Verso (P.Bagnall 43, TM 33771): Fourth-century inventory of columns of various buildings, providing measurements.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105144 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 755 : Petitions to the Prefect (P.Oxy. I 71, TM 12591, 12592, 704823), and Inventory of Columns (P.Bagnall 43, TM 33771) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1424]/040-002105144
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Medium-brown papyrus roll with detached fragment, broken off to the right (front), shredded at the bottom and worm-eaten throughout; written on both sides. The front bears two columns written along the fibres and portions of a third column; on the back, there are 3 columns written across the fibres and portions of another column; one line is written in the right margin parallel to the fibres and perpendicularly to the columns. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472077.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0303
- End Date:
- 0350
- Date Range:
- 303-350
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 260 x 548 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 295 x 610 mm.
Script: Recto: Proficient and regular cursive; Verso: Proficient small rapid cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Recto: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt. Verso: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 739-834 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in October 1900. Of these, papyri 739-814 form part of the discoveries made by Bernard P. Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) and Arthur S. Hunt (b. 1871, d. 1934) on the site of the ancient Oxyrhynchus.
- Former External References:
- P.Bagnall 43
P.Lond. III 755
P.Oxy. I 71 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 438.
Recto
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898), pp. 131-35, no. 71.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum, 1907), pp. XXXI-XXXII, no. 755 descr., with plate 65.
Ludwig Mitteis, Ulrich Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde, 2 vols. (Leipzig-Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1912), vol. I.2, pp. 69-70, no. 62.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 314.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, III (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958), p. 129.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 127.
Jane Rowlandson, Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), no. 177.
Judith Evans Grubbs, Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood (London-New York: Routledge, 2002), p. 55 = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), p. 145.
Verso
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum, 1907), pp. 221-23, no. 755 verso.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 290.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 180.
Arietta Papaconstantinou, ‘A Fourth-Century Inventory of Columns and the Late Roman Building Industry’, in Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall, ed. by Rodney Ast et al. (Durham, N.C.: American Society of Papyrologists, 2013), pp. 215-31, no. 43.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)