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Papyrus 1831
- Record Id:
- 040-002105370
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000f9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466553.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1831
- Title:
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Export of Wine (P.Hib. I 80, Chrest.Wilck. 290, TM 8229)
- Scope & Content:
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Two notices by Epichares to Chaeremon concerning the export of wine.
In the second notice (lines 6-12) Epichares reports that Horus, son of Teos, is exporting two jars of wine from a village in the Herakleopolite nome to Hiera Nesus, and that the tax of one twenty-fourth has not been paid yet. The name of the exporter in the first receipt (lines 1-5) is damaged.
With subscription in Demotic at the end and name of Horus on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105370 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1831 : Export of Wine (P.Hib. I 80, Chrest.Wilck. 290, TM 8229) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1146]/040-002105370
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, with plaster and red paint residue, and darker surface at the top (front); mutilated especially to the right; written on both sides. On the front there are 14 lines running across the fibres, the last two of which are in Demotic; there is a blank between lines 5 and 6. Lower, left and upper margins survive. The back bears one line parallel to the fibres, written the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466553.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Egyptian (Ancient)
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Egyptian demotic
Greek - Start Date:
- -0251
- End Date:
- -0251
- Date Range:
- 24 August 251 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 173 x 121 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 225 x 180 mm.
Script: Lines 1-5: Thin, small cursive hand; lines 6-12: thin, less cursive and larger hand; Demotic in the last two lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Herakleopolite 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.Wilck. 290
P.Hib. I 80 - 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. 235-236, no. 80.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 341-342, no. 290.
T. Long, ‘P. Hibeh 154: Export of Wine’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 6 (1969), pp. 41-43.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)