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Papyrus 985
- Record Id:
- 040-002105227
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00007c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464000.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 985
- Title:
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Receipt (P.Lond. III 985, Chrest.Wilck. 466, TM 33780)
- Scope & Content:
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Flavius Papnouthius, son of Phileas, acknowledges that he has received thirty solidi as a bounty for his military service, delivered to him by Aurelius Cyrillus; with subscriptions of Papnouthius and of a witness in the same hand as the body of the document, and Cyrillus’ subscription at the end in a different hand. This document is a copy, and Cyrillus retains the original.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105227 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 985 : Receipt (P.Lond. III 985, Chrest.Wilck. 466, TM 33780) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0953]/040-002105227
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, broken off at the top and with damage along the vertical folds; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The lower portion of a column survives, with 18 lines; of the first two lines, only few traces remain. Left and lower margins are extant; no margin was left to the right.The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464000.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0300
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 228 x 190 mm; framed in a glass case measuring 285 x 245 mm.
Script: Proficient, thin, upright cursive hand of medium size, with some elongated strokes; letters at the beginning of the lines tend to be enlarged; occasionally compressed at the end of the lines. Different hand for the subscription in the last two lines, rough, sloping cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Herakleopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Herakleopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 884-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 466
P.Lond. III 985 - 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. 441.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 228-229, no. 985, with pl. 78.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 4 (1908), pp. 526-568 (p. 557).
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 551-552, no. 466.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 87.
R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1993), p. 176.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 137.
J. R. Rea, ‘Order to Deliver: P.Lond. V 1655 Revised’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 115 (1997), pp. 189–193 (p. 190, 2 n.).
A. Jördens, ‘Ein Neurömer aus Alexandria’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 40 (2010), pp. 135-144 (p. 143).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)