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Papyrus 853
- Record Id:
- 040-002105199
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000059
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472096.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 853
- Title:
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Private Letter (P.Sarap. 98, TM 17123), Poll-Tax Receipt (SB XX 14200, TM 14853)
- Scope & Content:
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Left papyrus (A) (P.Sarap. 98, SB III 6298, TM 17123): Private letter from the archive of Sarapion and his family, addressed to Heliodorus; the name of the sender is lost. Dated between 90 and 133.
Right papyrus (B) (SB XX 14200, TM 14853): Poll-tax receipt for Ptolemaeus, of a quarter of Arsinoe, who paid twenty drachmas and ten bronze obols, the Arsinoite privileged rate for the poll-tax, for the accounting of the month Hadrianos. Dated 202-203.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105199 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 853 : Private Letter (P.Sarap. 98, TM 17123), Poll-Tax Receipt (SB XX 14200, TM 14853) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1255]/040-002105199
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
Left papyrus (A): Medium-brown fragment, broken off at the bottom and on the left, complete on the other sides; bearing writing on one side along the fibres. The ends of 20 lines survive, with upper and lower margins. The back is blank.
Right papyrus (B): Light-brown fragment, broken off on the sides, complete at the top and bottom; bearing writing on one side along the fibres. The mid portions of 9 lines survive, with upper and right margins. The back is blank.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472096.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0090
- End Date:
- 0203
- Date Range:
- 90-203
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 120 x 75 mm; B|: 90 x 43 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 175 x 195 mm.
Script: A: Small, slightly sloping cursive hand. B: Proficient and rapid cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: A: Hermopolite nome, Egypt. B: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt.
Provenance: A: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. B: Arsinoite nome. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 835-878 by the executors of William Joseph Myers, F. S. A., (b. 1858, d. 1899) through R. Taylor in 1900.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 853(a) descr.
P.Lond. III 853(b) descr.
P.Sarap. 98
SB III 6298
SB XX 14200 - 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. 440.
A
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xl, no. 853(a) descr.
Aristide Calderini, ‘(= PLond. 853a). lettera ad Eliodoro’, Studi della scuola papirologica, 2 (1917), 4-5.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, III (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter 1926), no. 6298.
Jacques Schwartz, Les archives de Sarapion et de ses fils. Une exploitation agricole aux environs d'Hermoupolis Magna (de 90 à 133 P.C.) (Le Caire: Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1961), p. 263, no. 98.
B
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xl, no. 853(b) descr.
Pieter J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Two receipts from the reign of Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta’, Analecta Papyrologica, 2 (1990), 75-79 (pp. 75-76, no. 1).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1997), no. 14200.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 226.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)