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Papyrus 769
- Record Id:
- 040-002105158
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000003
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463157.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 769
- Title:
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Receipt for Embole (P.Oxy. I 142, P.Lond. III 769 descr., TM 20781)
- Scope & Content:
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A receipt acknowledging that Asclas, boatman from the village of Koma, has received some artabas of wheat on account of the grain levy (embole) for the 13th indiction and a sum of money for the transport of the cargo to Alexandria from Pamouthius, pronoetes (administrator) of the hamlet of Leon. With docket on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105158 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 769 : Receipt for Embole (P.Oxy. I 142, P.Lond. III 769 descr., TM 20781) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0784]/040-002105158
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, fully preserved, with a few wormholes, presumably originally folded in half; written on both sides and housed in a glass case. A heading letter (chi) is in the upper margin.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463157.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 534
- End Date:
- 534
- Date Range:
- 15 November 534
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 300 x 230 mm. Housed in one glass case measuring 355 x 280 mm.
Script: Rough and non-proficient cursive, slightly inclined and large.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: 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 B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt on the site of the ancient Oxyrhynchus.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 769 descr.
P.Oxy. I 142 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 438-439.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1898), p. 227, no. 142.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. XXXIII, no. 769 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 233.
N. Gonis, ‘Studies on the Aristocracy of Late Antique Oxyrhynchus’, Tyche Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 17 (2002), pp. 85-97 (p. 88 n. 7).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)