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Papyrus 1159
- Record Id:
- 040-002105255
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00008f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100142973755.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1159
- Title:
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List of Liturgists for the Visit of the Prefect Lucius Valerius Proclus (P.Lond. III 1159, Chr.Wilck.415, TM 22811) and Other Texts
- Scope & Content:
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Recto:
- Columns 1-2: unpublished; Of column 1 only the endings of ten lines are preserved; column 2 contains a document of a certain Paniscus from the division of the City East, Hermopolis, under the emperor Antoninus Pius; a five-day period account follows.
- Columns 3-6 (P.Lond. III 1159, Chr.Wilck. 415, TM 22811): List of people who are to supply the provisions required for the official visit of the prefect Lucius Valerius Proclus; those exempted because of a special warrant, another official duty or death are also listed, along with their substitutes. Names are arranged on the basis of the items they are required to provide, such as white bread and vegetables, meat, wine, hay and barley, wood, geese, oil and lentils, fowl, olives and cheese, vegetables and fish, donkeys. The fourth column of the document (i.e. the 6th of the recto) and the detached fragments are unpublished.
Verso: Unpublished accounts arranged in columns, well preserved with the exception of the first two columns.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105255 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1159 : List of Liturgists for the Visit of the Prefect Lucius Valerius Proclus (P.Lond. III 1159, Chr.Wilck.415, TM 22811) and Other Texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0450]/040-002105255
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of various sizes of a papyrus roll, written on both sides and containing several columns not fully preserved; housed in one glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100142973755.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0144
- End Date:
- 0147
- Date Range:
- 144-147
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 230 x 790 mm; mounted in a glass frame measuring 280 x 850 mm.
Script: Various hands: cursive and sloping to the right; semi-cursive, rather upright and round.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis, Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis, 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:
- Chr.Wilck. 415
P.Lond. III 1159 - 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. 442.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 112-114, no. 1159.
L. Mitteis, U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde I.2 (Leipzig-Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1912), pp. 491-494, no. 415.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner 1913), p. 279.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), p. 628, no. 376.
G. Bastianini, ‘Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 17 (1975), pp. 263-321, 323-328 (p. 290)
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 64.
D. Hagedorn, ‘Die Speicherquittungen von P.Cair. Preis. 29: Eine Neuedition’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 166 (2008), pp. 171-178 (p. 166, 176).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2009), p. 103.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)