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Papyrus 1178
- Record Id:
- 040-002105268
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00009a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464431.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1178
- Title:
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Diploma of Membership of a Boxer (P.Lond. III 1178, Chrest.Wilck. 156, Pap.Agon. 6, TM 22834)
- Scope & Content:
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Diploma of membership to a guild of athletes given to the boxer Herminus alias Morus, of Hermopolis.
Papyrus 1178(1): Summary of the diploma, with a shorter version of the circular of the synod of athletes.
Papyrus 1178(2), lines 1-8: Letter of the emperor Claudius to the synod of athletes, with thanks for the golden crown he was sent for his victories. Dated to 46.
Papyrus 1178(2), lines 9-24: Letter of the emperor Claudius to the synod of athletes, with thanks for performing games in his honour. Dated to 47.
Papyrus 1178(2), lines 25-29: Letter of the emperor Vespasian confirming the privileges granted to the guild by Claudius.
Papyrus 1178(2), lines 30-37: Notification to the members of the guild of the membership of Herminus and his payment of the fee, equalling 100 denarii.
Papyrus 1178(2), line 38-end: Dating clause.
Papyrus 1178(3), lines 1-16: List of the officials of the guild, with full titles.
Papyrus 1178(3), line 17-end: Subscriptions of the officials, and acknowledgment of the payment by Herminus of an additional fee of 50 denarii.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105268 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1178 : Diploma of Membership of a Boxer (P.Lond. III 1178, Chrest.Wilck. 156, Pap.Agon. 6, TM 22834) - Contains:
- Papyrus 1178(1) : Part 1 of the diploma
Papyrus 1178(2) : Diploma of Membership of a Boxer
Papyrus 1178(3) : Diploma of Membership of a Boxer
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- 032-002104451[0461]/040-002105268
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Portions of papyrus roll, housed in three glass frames named Papyrus 1178(1), Papyrus 1178(2), and Papyrus 1178(3); damaged by holes throughout and written on one side, the back being blank. Papyrus 1178(2) and Papyrus 1178(3) are mounted on cardboard; Papyrus 1178(1) preserves three seals on the back. Writing runs along the height of the roll.
Papyrus 1178(1): Sheet glued at the beginning of the roll; 7 lines written along the fibres, abraded in places; blank space between lines 1 and 2; margins are extant. On the back at the bottom there are three seals. Sheet-joins running along the width are visible.
Papyrus 1178(2): Light-coloured by patches, with minor abrasion and holes especially in the left half; 42 lines written across the fibres, few of which lack the beginnings. A strip of horizontal fibres was glued onto the surface in the upper half. Three stains are visible at the top.
Papyrus 1172(3): With darker patches; mutilated in the left-hand side and at the bottom, with detached scrap; with surface damage in places. 50 lines written across the fibres, some of which lack the beginnings.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0212
- Date Range:
- 200-212
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus; clay.
Dimensions: Papyrus 1178(1): 335 x 255 mm; Papyrus 1178(2): 412 x 244 mm; Papyrus 1178(3): 550 x 251 mm. Housed in three glass frames measuring 385 x 295 mm, 460 x 295 mm, and 615 x 295 mm respecitively.
Script: Papyrus 1178(1), line 1: Thin, rapid cursive of small size; line 2-end: Thin cursive hand, somewhat uneven and irregular in size, larger than the first; Papyrus 1178(2)-Papyrus 1178(3) up to line 16: Neat, regular and proficient upright cursive hand with some elongated strokes; Papyrus 1178(3), lines 17-21: Small and rough detached hand; lines 22-23: Rough and uneven detached hand; lines 24-28 (28 in lacuna): Thin, slow detached hand, with well-spaced letters, bilinear, with corrections; lines 29-32: Thin, upright hand, with ligatured letters; lines 33-34: Large, uneven, upright cursive hand. Same hand as Papyrus 1178(2)-Papyrus 1178(3) lines 1-16 for Frisch, different hand for Wilcken and Vandoni); lines 35-39: Somewhat uneven and inexperienced cursive hand, thin and upright; lines 40-44: Thick and small detached hand; lines 45-47: Rough and inexperienced detached hand of medium size; lines 45-48: Thin, rough and inexperienced hand, rather uneven, with some ligatured letters, and erasure; lines 49-50: Thin, upright hand of fair size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Nea Polis (Napoli), Italy.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 884-1177 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 156
P.Lond. III 1178
Pap.Agon. 6 - 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, 1907), pp. 214-219, no. 1178, with pll. 20-23.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 4 (1908), pp. 526-568 (pp. 555-556).
E. M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912), p. 179, facs. 32.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 184-187, no. 156.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 289-290.
W. Schubart, Griechische Palaeographie (München: C. H. Beck 1925), pp. 70-71.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), p. 398, no. 252.
N. Lewis, M. Reinhold, Roman civilization. Vol. 2, The Empire: selected readings (New York: Columbia University Press 1955), pp. 232-234.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 96.
M. Vandoni, Feste pubbliche e private nei documenti greci (Milano-Varese: Istituto editoriale cisalpino 1964), pp. 108-110, no. 112.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 64.
E. M. Smallwood, Documents Illustrating the Principates of Gaius Claudius and Nero (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1967), no. 374.
M. I. Finley, H. W. Pleket, The Olympic Games: the first thousand years (London: Chatto and Windus 1976), pp. 126-127, pl. 26.
D. Braund, Augustus to Nero: A Sourcebook on Roman History, 31 BC-AD 68 (London: Croom Helm 1985), no. 581.
P. Frisch, Zehn agonistische Papyri (Pap.Colon. XIII) (Opladen 1986), pp. 98-127, no. 6.
J. H. Oliver, Greek Constitutions of Early Roman Emperors from Inscriptions and Papyri (Philadelphia: American philosophical Society 1989), p. 100, pl. 1.
P. W. Pestman, Familiearchieven Uit Het Land Van Pharao (Zutphen: Terra 1989), p. 127.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Theognostos Alias Moros and His Family’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 76 (1989), pp. 213-218 (p. 216).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 186.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 141.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 103.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), p. 303.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)