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Papyrus 2436
- Record Id:
- 040-002105467
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000158
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470950.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2436
- Title:
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Leases and Acta Alexandrinorum (P.Oxy. X 1242, TM 111047, 58941, LDAB 36)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Oxy. X 1242 ro. descr., TM 111047): Second-century copies of contracts of lease; the three columns preserved are numbered 34-36 at the top. Unpublished.
Verso (P.Oxy. X 1242 vo., TM 58941, LDAB 36): Acta Heraisci, narrating the hearing of an Alexandrian embassy before the emperor Trajan. The group included Hermaiscus, Paulus and Theon; the six Jewish delegates were represented by Sopater. Trajan and Plotina were in favour of the Jews, and the preserved portion recounts a dialogue between Trajan and Hermaiscus. The papyrus breaks off with the mention that the bust of Serapis, brought by the Alexandrians to Rome, started to sweat.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105467 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2436 : Leases and Acta Alexandrinorum (P.Oxy. X 1242, TM 111047, 58941, LDAB 36) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1291]/040-002105467
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Portion of a medium-dark-brown papyrus roll with detached scraps, written on both sides. On the front, there are four columns written along the fibres, lacking the bottom. On the back, there are parts of four consecutive columns lacking the tops, written across the fibres, the other way up in relation to the text on the front; the column width varies between 85 and 125 mm; the lower margin measures 25 mm. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470950.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 2nd century-3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 158 x 539 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 590 mm.
Script: Recto: Upright, regular and rapid cursive hand. Verso: Neat, upright, semi-cursive hand, with corrections; high stop occasionally used.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2435-2485 by the Egypt Exploration Society on 18 July 1922.
- Former External References:
- CPJ II 157
P.Lond.Lit. 117
P.Oxy. X 1242 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), p. 366.
Recto
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part X (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1914), p. 114.
Verso
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part X (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1914), pp. 112-19, no. 1242.
W. Weber, ‘Eine Gerichtsverhandlung vor Kaiser Traian’, Hermes, 50 (1915), 47-92.
Alfred Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 7 (1924), 225-58 (p. 236).
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 91, no. 117.
Victor A. Tcherikover, Alexander Fuks, Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum. 3 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957-1960), 2 (1960), no. 157.
Herbert Musurillo, Acta Alexandrinorum. De mortibus Alexandriae nobilium fragmenta papyracea graeca (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1961), pp. 44-48, 161-78, no. 8.
Stephanie West, ‘A Note on P. Oxy. 1242 ('Acta Hermaisci')’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 7 (1971), p. 164.
Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski, The Jews of Egypt: From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), p. 193.
Andrew Harker, Loyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt. The Case of the Acta Alexandrinorum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 189.
Natalia Vega Navarrete, Die Acta Alexandrinorum im Lichte neuerer und neuester Papyrusfunde (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), pp. 170-84, no. 3.5 (with further bibliography).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)