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Papyrus 1828
- Record Id:
- 040-002105367
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000f2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466537.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1828
- Title:
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Judicial Summonses (P.Hib. I 30, Chrest.Mitt. 20, TM 8183)
- Scope & Content:
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Copies of summonses presented in civil cases by the plaintiff(s), presumably part of the same document, concerning the recovery of debts.
(A): Fragment of the summons served to Nicanor concerning a debt of 330 drachmas.
(D): Summons served to Perdiccas concerning a debt of 1050 drachmas; the plaintiff had already demanded the repayment on several occasions, and is now taking legal action against Perdiccas. With names of the witnesses, date, and notification about the court where the proceedings will be held. The subscription of a certain Epimenes follows.
(B-C): Small fragments.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105367 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1828 : Judicial Summonses (P.Hib. I 30, Chrest.Mitt. 20, TM 8183) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1145]/040-002105367
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Four fragments of varying size, numbered A-D in the frame, presumably from the same papyrus sheet, reused as mummy cartonnage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank, and mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
A: With remains of 5 lines from the top of a column;
B: With remains of 5 lines and an interlinear addition;
C: With few traces of 2 lines;
D: Lower right portion of a column, broken off at the top and left, with 14 lines; the lower margin is preserved, and no margin was left to the right.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0282
- End Date:
- -0274
- Date Range:
- 282-274
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 40 x 65 mm; B: 24 x 32 mm; C: 13 x 24 mm; D: 94 x 106 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 220 x 155 mm.
Script: Thin, small and neat hand; different hand for the subscription in the last line of D.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Heracleopolite or Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1821-1841 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in January 1909. They were extracted from mummy cartonnage obtained by Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) and Arthur Surridge Hunt (b. 1871, d. 1934) at Hibeh in 1902.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 20
Jur.Pap. 77
P.Hib. I 30
Sel.Pap. II 247 - 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. 314.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri. Part I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1906), pp. 165-167, no. 30.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 15, no. 20.
P. M. Meyer, Juristische Papyri (Erklärung von Urkunden zur Einführung in die juristische Papyruskunde) (Berlin: Weidmann 1920), pp. 266-267, no. 77.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 94, 465.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 172-173, no. 247.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 83.
W. Clarysse, G. van Derveken, The Eponymous Priests of Ptolemaic Egypt: Chronological Lists of the Priests of Alexandria and Ptolemais with a Study of the Demotic Transcriptions of their Names (P.L. Bat. 24) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1983), p. 4.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 108.
E. Salmenkivi, ‘Herakleopolis Magna under Philadelphus’, in P. McKechnie, Ph. Guillaume (eds.), Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his world (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2008), pp. 183-190 (p. 186).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Nicanor, Macedonian, of the troop of Alexander, 1st half of 3rd century BC
Perdiccas, Macedonian, of the troop of Alexander, 1st half of 3rd century BC - Places:
- Ankyropolis (El-Hiba, El-Hibeh), 20th Upper Egyptian nome, Egypt
Herakleopolite nome, Egypt
Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt