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Papyrus 983
- Record Id:
- 040-002105229
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00007e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463987.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 983
- Title:
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Petition (P.Lond. III 983, TM 33779)
- Scope & Content:
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Petition of Aurelius Sarapion, son of Silvanus, the recipient being lost. A woman entered Sarapion’s house the day before and used abusive language against his wife and young daughter. Sarapion cannot remain silent, and asks that the woman be detained and punished. With subscription of Sarapion at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105229 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 983 : Petition (P.Lond. III 983, TM 33779) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0951]/040-002105229
- 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, with minor surface damage in the preserved portion; writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There is a column of 19 lines; of the first two only few traces remain. Lower and side margins survive. A sheet-join runs along the height of the sheet and across the fibres in the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cadboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463987.0x000001 (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: 184 x 152 mm; framed in a glass case measuring 230 x 205 mm.
Script: Thin, large and regular hand, with some elongated strokes. Different hand of the subscription in the last two lines, rough and unskilled.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome (see P.Flor. III 309), Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolite 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:
- P.Lond. III 983
- 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), p. 229, no. 983, with pl. 76.
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. 211.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 194).
A. Z. Bryen, Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press 2013), p. 272, no. 120.
A. Z. Bryen, ‘Dionysia's Complaint: Finding Emotions in the Courtroom’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57 (2017), pp. 1010-1031 (pp. 1020-1021).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)