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Papyrus 2438
- Record Id:
- 040-002105470
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00015e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124241.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2438
- Title:
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Statement concerning a Decaprotus and Accounts (P.Oxy. X 1257, TM 21795)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto: Statement written by a certain Maximus concerning a late payment for corn-tax that had been made to Epimachus, decaprotus, four years earlier. Once made, the payment was added to the accounts. Further amounts should now be added in the presence of Ammonius, collector of public-corn dues, while he was in Oxyrhynchus.
Verso: Two columns with accounts in different hands. The last two lines, written upside down as to the accounts, contain the beginning of a letter from Maximus to his father Horion. Unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105470 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2438 : Statement concerning a Decaprotus and Accounts (P.Oxy. X 1257, TM 21795) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1242]/040-002105470
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, damaged by wormholes throughout; writing is on either side across the fibres. The recto preserves one wide column of writing, with all margins extant, although the right side is somewhat damaged. The verso has two columns of text written by different hands; of the second only scanty traces remain. After some blank space there are two lines written upside down as to the two columns. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. X. Housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0279
- End Date:
- 0279
- Date Range:
- after 28 October 279
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 176 x 233 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 225 x 280 x mm.
Script: Recto: Semi-cursive hand slanting to the right; Verso: Cursive hands; the second in column 2 is thicker.
- 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:
- P.Oxy. X 1257
- 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. 365.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri X (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1914), pp. 176-178, no. 1257.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1916), p. 26.
A. H. M. Jones, J. R. Martindale, J. Morris, The prosopography of the later Roman Empire (Cambridge: University Press 1971), p. 55.
D. Hagedorn, ‘᾽Οξυρύγχων πόλιϛ und ἡ ᾽Οξυρυγχιτῶν πόλιϛ’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 12 (1973), pp. 277-292 (p. 288).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)