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Papyrus 2248

Record Id:

040-002105459

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000152

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100059353586.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2248

Title:

Tax Register (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987) and Letter from the Emperor Claudius to the Alexandrians (P.Lond. VI 1912v., TM 16850)

Scope & Content:

Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987): Unpublished tax register from Philadelpheia from 37/38, belonging to the tax archive of Nemesion, son of Zoilus, tax collector.

Verso (P.Lond. VI 1912v., CPJ II 153, Sel.Pap. II 212, TM 16850):

Column 1: Ends of lines from a register;

Column 2: Edict of the prefect Lucius Aemilius Rectus ordering the publication of Claudius’ letter, reproduced in the following columns; dated to 14 Neos Sebastos of year 2 of Claudius [=10 November 41];

Column 3-6: Copy of the letter of the Emperor Claudius in reply to the felicitations and complaints of a Greek embassy sent to him from Alexandria in 41.

Column 3, lines 1-16: The letter begins with a list of the 12 members of the embassy, to whom words of courtesy are addressed.

Column 3, line 16 - column 5, line 13: The Emperor deals with the honours voted for him by the Alexandrians, mostly concerning the imperial cult, and their requests.

Column 5, line 14 - end: The ‘Jewish question’ is then discussed in order to settle the dispute between the Alexandrians and the Jews of the city. The Emperor urges the parties to cease any hostility and live with mutual forbearance, or else he will have to intervene; a short conclusion follows.

Between columns 3-4 a short column, written in the reverse way in relation to the other columns, contains a list of names.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105459

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2248 : Tax Register (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987) and Letter from the Emperor Claudius to the Alexandrians (P.Lond. VI 1912v., TM 16850)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0625]/040-002105459

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Long, yet imperfect roll, lacking the beginning, but well preserved as to the rest; written on both sides and housed in one glass case.

Digitised Content:

https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059353586.0x000001

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0037

End Date:

0041

Date Range:

37-41

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: 295 x 1165 mm. Housed in one glass frame measuring 420 x 1320 mm.

Script: Small cursive hand, overall neat and practised, although careless in places.

Custodial History:

Origin: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.

Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2243-2304 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) on 9 July 1921 through Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (b. 1857, d. 1934). Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2243-2304 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) through Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (b. 1857, d. 1934) on 9 July 1921. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan, Princeton University, Cornell University, the University of Geneva.

Former External References:

CPJ II 153
P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr.
P.Lond. VI 1912v.
Sel.Pap. II 212

Information About Copies:

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum 1950), pp. 363-364.

H. I. Bell, W. Crum, Jews and Christians in Egypt. The Jewish Troubles in Alexandria and the Athanasian Controversy (P.Lond. VI) (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1924), pp. 1-37, no. 1912.

H. I. Bell, Juden und Griechen im römischen Alexandreia: eine historische Skizze des alexandrinischen Antisemitismus (Leipzig: Hinrichs 1926).

H. Janne, ‘Un passage controversé de la Lettre de Claude aux Alexandrins’, Revue archéologique 34 (1932), pp. 268-281.

S. Reinach, ‘À propos de la lettre de Claude. Encore la lettre de Claude’, Revue archéologique 35 (1932), pp. 152-153.

F. Smolka, ‘L'histoire d'une hypothèse importante’, Eos 34 (1932-1933), pp. pp. 217-228.

A. Stein, ‘Balbillus. Nachtrag zu Balbillus’, Aegyptus 13 (1933), pp. 123-136 (p. 129).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), pp. 85-87.

A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select Papyri II. Non-Literary Papyri (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1934), pp. 78-89, no. 212.

H. Janne, ‘Impulsore Chresto’, Annuaire de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales 2 (1934), pp. 531-553.

H. Janne, ‘La Lettre de Claude aux Alexandrins et le christianism’, Annuaire de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales [Bruxelles] 4 (1936), pp. 273-295.

G. May, ‘La politique religieuse de l'empereur Claude’, Revue historique de droit français et étranger 17 (1938), pp. 1-46.

M. Stuart, ‘How Were Imperial Portraits Distributed throughout the Roman Empire?’, American Journal of Archaeology 43 (1939), pp. 601-617 (pp. 611-612).

M. Simon, ‘À propos de la Lettre de Claude aux Alexandrins’, Bulletin de la Faculté des Lettres de Strasbourg 21 (1942-1943), pp. 175-183.

E. G. Turner, ‘Tiberivs Ivlivs Alexander’, Journal of Roman Studies 44 (1954), pp. 54-64 (p. 58).

I. D. Amusin, ‘Ad P. Lond. 1912’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 9-10 (1955-1956), pp. 169-209 [in Russian].

F. Staehelin, ‘Kaiser Claudius’, in F. Staehelin, Reden und Vorträge (Basel: B. Schwabe 1956), pp. 147-171.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 99.

A. A. Aly, ‘The Letter of Claudius to the City of the Alexandrians. P. Jews (P. Lond. 1912)’, Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts (University of Egypt, Fouad I University, Cairo University) 18, Part 2 (1959), pp. 1-27.

Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum II (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1960), pp. 36-55, no. 153.

A. C. Johnson, P. R. Coleman-Norton, F. C. Bourne, Ancient Roman Statuses (Austin: University of Texas Press 1961), pp. 138-139, no. 167 II.

M. Simon, ‘À propos de la Lettre de Claude aux Alexandrins’, in M. Simon, Recherches d'histoire judéo-chrétienne II (Paris: Mouton 1962), pp. 20-29, 200.

F. Pericoli-Ridolfini, ‘Le origini della Chiesa di Alessandria d'Egitto e la cronologia dei vescovi alessandrine dei secoli i e ii’, Rendiconti Lincei. Serie VIII, 17 (1962), pp. 308-343 (pp. 309-313).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1964), p. 46.

P. Petit, Le Premier siècle de notre ère (Pais: A. Colin 1968), no. 36.

A. Moscadi, ‘Note a PLond. 1912’, Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica 47 (1975), pp. 236-250.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 66.

W. Seston, ‘L'Empereur Claude et les Chrétiens’, in Scripta varia. Mélanges d'histoire romaine, de droit, d'épigraphie et d'histoire du christianisme (Rome: École française 1980), pp. 569-598.

C. Kraus Reggiani, ‘I rapporti tra l'impero romano e il mondo ebraico al tempo di Caligola secondo la "Legatio ad Gaium" di Filone Alessandrino’, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (Berlin: De Gruyter 1984), pp. 554-586 (pp. 577-582).

D. Braund, Augustus to Nero: A Sourcebook on Roman History, 31 BC-AD 68 (London: Croom Helm 1985), no. 571.

J.-D. Butin, J. Schwartz, ‘Post Philonis Legationem’, Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses 65 (1985), pp. 127-129.

B. Levick, The Government of the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook (London: Croom Helm 1985), no. 120.

J. L. White, Light from Ancient Letters (Philadelphia: Fortress Press 1986), p. 88.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1986), pp. 92-93.

E. Crespo, ‘La 'carta de Claudio a los Alejandrinos' (P. Lond. 1912): un tipo de koiné en el Egipto de época de Claudio’, Minerva 2 (1988), pp. 213-231.

P. W. Pestman, The New Papyrological Primer (Leiden - New York: E.J. Brill 1990), no. 16.

A. E. Hanson, ‘Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Arabes, and Ioudaioi in the First Century A.D. Tax Archive from Philadelphia: P. Mich. inv. 880 recto and P. Princ. III. 152 revised’, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization: Life in a Multicultural Society: Egypt From Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond, vol. 51, (Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 1992), pp. 133-148 (pp. 138-140).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1992), pp. 194-195.

H. Heinen, ‘Papyri und Archäologie’, in Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists, Copenhagen, Denmark, 23-29 August, 1992 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994), pp. 146-159.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1995), p. 148.

J. Mélèze Modrzejewski, Les Juifs d’Egypte de Ramsès II à Hadrien (Paris: Quadrige/PUF 1997), pp. 250-253.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1998), p. 109.

Adam Łukaszewicz, ‘Claudius to his own City of Alexandria (P.Lond. VI 1912, 103-104), Journal of Juristic Papyrology 28 (1998), pp. 71-77.

E. Grzybek, ‘La répression à Alexandrie en 41 apr. J.-C. et le problème des délégations juives envoyées à Rome (CP Jud II 153, 90-92)’, Revue historique de droit français et étranger 77 (1999) pp. 213-222.

P. Schubert, Vivre en Egypte gréco-romaine: une sélection de papyrus (Vevey: Editions de l’Aire 2000), no. 60.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2002), p. 122.

R. Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus: vie quotidienne (Paris: Pygmalion 2003), no. 20.

F. Kayser, ‘Les ambassades alexandrines à Rome (Ier-IIe siècle)’, Revue des Études Anciennes 105 (2003), pp. 435-468.

A. Harker, Loyalty and dissidence in Roman Egypt : the case of the Acta Alexandrinorum (Cambridge - New York: Cambridge University Press 2008).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2009), pp. 109-110.

S. Gambetti, The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the Persecution of the Jews: A Historical Reconstruction (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), passim.

A. E. Hanson, ‘Revisions for P.Mich. X 578 (Census List)’, in Proceedings of the 25^th International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor July 29 – August 4, 2007 (Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, The University of Michigan Library 2010), pp. 307-311 (p. 310-311).

G. Flamerie de Lachapelle, J. France, J. Nelis-Clément, Rome et le monde provincial: documents d'une histoire partagée, IIe siècle a.C.-Ve siècle p.C. (Paris: A. Colin 2012), no. 217.

Exhibitions:

Egypt: Faith after the Pharoahs, British Museum, London, 29 October 2015 - 7 February 2016

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Claudius I, Emperor of Rome
Nemesion, son of Zoilus, 1st century
Rectus, Lucius Aemilius, Prefect of Egypt

Places:

Alexandria, Egypt
Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza), Egypt