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Papyrus 1177
- Record Id:
- 040-002105267
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000099
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1177
- Title:
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Accounts on the Water Supply of a Metropolis (SB XXVI 16652, TM 11763) and Other Accounts (P.Lond. III 1177v. descr., TM 29258)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto
Papyrus 1177(1), Columns 1-2 (column 1 only having a few traces): Remains of an account with sums stated in drachmas, with the total at the end and rough notes in a different hand.
Papyrus 1177(1), Column 3: Further accounts in a fast cursive hand, also found throughout the recto, in the margins of the following columns.
Papyrus 1177(1), Column 4-Papyrus 1177(3), Column 8 (SB XXVI 16652, P.Lond. III 1157, Chrest.Wilck. 193, Sel.Pap. II 406, CPJ II 432, TM 11763): Accounts of the water system of Ptolemais Euergetis, addressed to Demetrius, former gymnasiarch and auditor, from four overseers (phrontistai), Crispus alias Sarapion, Mysthas alias Ptolemaeus, Mysthas son of Didymus and Sotas son of Zoilus. 17 columns are preserved: 3 in Papyrus 1177(1), 6 in Papyrus 1177(2) and 8 in Papyrus 1177(3), the last three being damaged. The accounts concern revenue and expenditures for the reservoirs and fountains of the city, which include payments to contractors, animal labour, supplies and various materials for maintenance works.
Verso
Papyrus 1177(1) - Papyrus 1177(3) (P.Lond. III 1177v. descr., TM 29258): Further unpublished accounts arranged in several columns, the beginning being fragmentary.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105267 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1177 : Accounts on the Water Supply of a Metropolis (SB XXVI 16652, TM 11763) and Other Accounts (P.Lond. III 1177v. descr., TM 29258) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0460]/040-002105267
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Sheets from a papyrus roll, overall well preserved with the exception of the end, which is damaged; written on both sides and preserving several columns. Housed in three glass frames.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_1177 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0113
- End Date:
- 0113
- Date Range:
- 113
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Papyrus 1177(1): 225 x 650 mm; Papyrus 1177(2): 225 x 895 mm; Papyrus 1177(3): 225 x 1095 mm. Housed in three glass frames measuring 280 x 710 mm, 280 x 965 mm and 370 x 1225 mm respectively.
Script: Recto: Small cursive hand; additional hands, less neat. Verso: Irregular and straggling cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Ptolemais Euergetis, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite 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 1177
P.Lond. III 1177v. descr. - Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- 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. 443.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 180-190, no. 1177, p. LXII, no. 1177v. descr.
U. Wilcken, 'Papyrus-Urkunden', Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 4 (1908), pp. 526-568 (pp. 553-554).
L. Mitteis, U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde I.2 (Leipzig-Berlin: B. G. Teubner 1912), pp. 224-227, no. 193.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner 1913), p. 287.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 83.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select Papyri II. Non-Literary Papyri (Cambridge, Mass. 1934: Harvard University Press), pp. 537-541, no. 406.
Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum II (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1960), no. 432.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1964), p. 44.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 63.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1986), p. 89.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1992), pp. 185-186.
W. Habermann, Zur Wasserversorgung einer Metropole im kaiserzeitlichen Ägypten: Neuedition von P. Lond. III 1177, Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar (München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2000).
C. Bruun, ‘"Medius fidius ... Tantam pecuniam Nicomedenses perdiderint!" Roman Water Supply, Public Administration, and Private Contractors’, J.-J. Aubert (ed.), Tâches publiques et entreprise privée dans le monde romain. Actes du Diplôme d'Études Avancées, Universités de Neuchâtel et de Lausanne, 2000-2002 = Université de Neuchâtel. Recueil des travaux publiés par la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines 52 (Genève: Librairie Droz 2003), pp. 305-325 (pp. 311-313).
W. Habermann, ‘Bemerkungen zur antiken Löttechnik nach P.Lond. III 1177’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 50 (2004), pp. 189-198.
W. Habermann, ‘P.Lond. III 1177 (ed. Habermann) Z. 392 revidiert’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 18 (2004), p. 258.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2009), p. 246.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten XXVI (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2006), pp. 253-272, no. 16652.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten XXVII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007), p. 53.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)