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Papyrus 276(B)
- Record Id:
- 040-002105387
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000108
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143125222.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 276(B)
- Title:
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Official Letter (P.Lond. II 276b, SB I 5954, TM 14002)
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of the letter of Seppius Rufus (the author is not explicitly mentioned) to the centurion Lucretius, where he subjoins his ruling concerning the case of Satabous, son of Herieus, so that Lucretius may comply with his decision. Satabous had been accused of appropriating some ownerless vacant land, and Seppius Rufus had ordered an investigation and requested Satabous to appear before him with the relevant documentation.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105387 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 276(B) : Official Letter (P.Lond. II 276b, SB I 5954, TM 14002) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0501]/040-002105387
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, with few insect holes in the preserved portion, and irregularly cut to the right. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There is one column of which 16 lines survive, the last being rather mutilated. Upper, right and left margins are extant, with the right margin being minimal. A sheet-join running across the fibres and along the height of the sheet is visible in the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143125222.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0015
- End Date:
- 0015
- Date Range:
- 30 June 15
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 210 x 184 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 255 x 230 mm.
Script: Thin, large hand, mostly detached; somewhat irregular in size, with a tendency for letters at the beginning of the lines to be larger.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 272-400 from Theodor Graf (b. 1840, d. 1903) on 11 April 1893.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 276b
SB I 5954 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 423.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 148-149, no. 276B, with pl. 12.
F. G. Kenyon, The palaeography of Greek papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1899), pl. IV.
E. M. Thompson, Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, etc.: second series. New Palaeographical Society Series II. I, II (London: Oxford University Press 1913-1932), plate 183.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner 1915), p. 655, no. 5954.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 254.
H. Metzger, ‘Aus den Akten eines gräko-ägyptischen Liegenschaftsprozesses: Papyrus Vindobonensis D 6.889’, Museum Helveticum 24 (1967), pp. 217-220 (pp. 218-219).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 61.
F. A. J. Hoogendijk, ‘Het ‘Nestnêphis-proces’. Een strijd tussen Egyptische priesters in de 1ste eeuw n. Chr.’, Hermeneus 66 (1994), pp. 255-262.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 213).
T. Kruse, Der Königliche Schreiber und die Gauverwaltung 1 (München- Leipzig: K.G. Saur 2002), pp. 532-537.
H.-A. Rupprecht, ‘Die Streitigkeiten zwischen Satabous und Nestnephis’, in G. Thür, F. J. Fernández Nieto (eds.), Symposion 1999. Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Akten der Gesellschaft für griechische und hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte 14) (Köln: Böhlau 2003), pp. 481-492.
J. Whitehorne, ‘Petitions to the Centurion: a Question of Locality?’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 41 (2004), pp. 155-160, 161-169 (p. 161).
M. Schentuleit, ‘Satabus aus Soknopaiu Nesos: Aus dem Leben eines Priesters am Beginn der römischen Kaiserzeit’, Chronique d'Égypte 82 (2007), pp. 101-125.
H. Harrauer, Handbuch der griechischen Paläographie. Textband (Stuttgart: Hiersemann 2010), pp. 255-256, no. 73.
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 1-6, and passim.
B. Kelly, ‘Notes on Five Documents from the Roman Period. ’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 27 (2012), pp. 224-225 (p. 224, no. 729).
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), p. 253.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)