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Papyrus 1196
- Record Id:
- 040-002105288
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000b0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1196
- Title:
- Bank Deposits of the Cavalrymen of a Squadron (P.Fay. 105, ChLA III 208 + XLVIII 208, CPL 124, TM 10770)
- Scope & Content:
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This military account is a summary of the sums held in deposit for cavalrymen of a squadron (turma) of an auxiliary unit. Despite several attempts to identify this unit, it remains uncertain whether it was an ala or a cohors equitata. The deposits fall into three categories: deposita (normal savings), seposita (enforced savings and accessible to soldiers only after their discharge), and viatical (payment recruits received on joining). In addition, in the second column of the first frame, various debts of the soldiers, which amount to more than their periodic payments, are recorded.
The document may be assigned to the first the first decades of the second century AD (120-50 AD) on paleographical grounds. The address on the verso mentions Apollonius, strategus of the Arsinoite nome, of the division of Herakleides, perhaps to be identified with the strategus in office between 176 and 186 AD.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105288 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1196 : Bank Deposits of the Cavalrymen of a Squadron (P.Fay. 105, ChLA III 208 + XLVIII 208, CPL 124, TM 10770) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0889]/040-002105288
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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13 fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll. The Latin document is written on the recto, along the fibres. The verso shows a Greek address written across the fibres. Mounted in two frames named Papyrus 1196(1), and Papyrus 1196(2). The first frame contains two large pieces, the second the remaining 11 fragments, smaller in size, and mounted on cardboard.
Fr. A preserves two continuous columns: col. I is made up of 25 lines and col. II of 19 lines. Both show the top (27 mm) and bottom margins (65 mm in col. I and 86 mm in col. II) and are separated by a variable intercolumnium, whose measure runs from 20 to 50 mm. The interlinear space is 5 mm on average. Fr. B contains a single column of 34 lines. On the basis of the content, this col. III is, however, not a direct continuation of cols. I and II. Its top and bottom margins are 8 mm and 67 mm respectively. The interlinear space measures 2 mm on average. The other fragments, frr. C-M, are broken off all sides and contain scanty portions of lines.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0120
- End Date:
- 0150
- Date Range:
- c. 120-150
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Papyrus 1196(1): fr. A 298 x 267 mm; fr. B 296 x 175 mm. Papyrus 1196(2): fr. C: 81 x 4 mm; fr. D: 92 x 26 mm; fr. E: 55 x 27 mm; fr. fF: 67 x 30 mm; fr. G: 98 x 55 mm; fr. H: 93 x 74 mm; fr. I: 50 x 35 mm; fr. J: 29 x 53 mm; fr. K: 53 x 26 mm; fr. L: 66 x 67 mm; fr. M 81 x 44 mm. Housed in two glass frames measuring 365 x 485 and 230 x 360 mm respectively.
Script: Bureaucratic form of ancient Roman cursive, fast in execution and slightly sloping to the right. It was the work of three different hands, very similar to each other, although the first two use less ligatures. The average height of letters is 3/5 mm. Only in col. III l. 1 is in capital letters (0.4 cm), because it featured a heading of some sort.
Abbreviations and symbols are regularly used for currencies and fractions (✻ for denarii, b for obolus, s for semis). A black disk, likely as check-mark, is visible before all the personal names.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Karanis (Kom Aushim), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Karanis (Kom Aushim), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Part of the discoveries made by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt in the Fayum, on the site of the ancient Karanis, Kôm Ushîm (1895–6). Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1180-1199 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in November 1903.
- Former External References:
- CPL 124
ChLA III 208 + XLVIII 208
Fink 73
P.Fay. 105 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900–1905 (London: Trustees of British Museum 1907), p. 444.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, D. G. Hogarth, Fayûm Towns and their Papyri (London: Offices of the Egypt Exploration fund 1900), pp. 252–256, no. 105.
R. Marichal, L’occupation romaine de la Basse Égypte: le statut des « auxilia » (P.Berlin 6.866 et P.Lond. 1196-Fay. 105) (Paris: E. Droz 1945), pp. 41–53, 56–57, 62–66, 72–76.
R. Marichal, Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Facsimile-Edition of the Latin Charters, III Great Britain 1 (Lausanne: Urs Graf 1963), pp. 90–97, no. 208.
S. Daris, Documenti per la storia dell’esercito romano in Egitto (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1964), pp. 100–5, no. 34.
R. O. Fink, Roman Military Records on Papyrus. The American Philological Association Monograph 26 (Cleveland, Ohio: The Press of Case Western for the American Philological Association 1971), pp. 269–76, no. 73.
G. R. Watson, ‘Documentation in the Roman Army’, ANRW 1974, pp. 493– 507 (pp. 499–500).
S. Daris, ‘I papiri e gli ostraca latini d’Egitto’, Aevum 74 (2000), pp. 105–75 (p. 154).
Metadata provided by the PLATINUM project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement nº 636983), University of Naples 'Federico II'.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Karanis, Egypt