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Papyrus 1538
- Record Id:
- 040-002105317
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000c6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143122968.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1538
- Title:
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Selection of a Slave Boy (P.Oxy. IV 714, TM 20414)
- Scope & Content:
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An application addressed to the strategus Philonicus, the royal scribe Hermodorus, to two keepers of the public archives, both called Dionysius, and to Apollonius, former exegetes and scribe, from Apollonius, who states that his house-born slave boy has reached the age of 13. Because his fiscal status was the same as his master, Apollonius states that he is among those paying the poll-tax at a reduced rate of 12 drachmas. With dating clause and registration docket at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105317 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1538 : Selection of a Slave Boy (P.Oxy. IV 714, TM 20414) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1004]/040-002105317
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two fragments of a long and narrow papyrus slip, broken off at the top, lacking portions of the right half and with some lines lost between the two fragments; small holes and surface damage affect both fragments. The upper fragment preserves 7 lines, with traces of one line at the top and one line at the bottom; in the lower fragment 27 lines remain, some of which are mutilated. The left margin is extant, no margin was left at the right and the blank at the bottom measures 145 mm. A sheet-join runs along the height of the sheet at c. 10 mm from the right edge. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. IV. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0122
- End Date:
- 0122
- Date Range:
- 14 February 122
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 42 x 50 mm; B: 290 x 50 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 410 x 105 mm.
Script: Thin and large hand, mostly detached, slanting to the right; rough rapid cursive in the last two lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1523-1544 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in November 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. IV 714
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 310.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri IV (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1904), pp. 183-184, no. 714.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 326.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 59.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), pp. 76-77.
J. G. Keenan, J. G. Manning, U. Yiftach-Firanko (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 457-458, no. 9.2.3.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)