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Papyrus 2440
- Record Id:
- 040-002105472
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000160
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124274.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2440
- Title:
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Receipt for Tax on Sale (P.Oxy. X 1284, TM 21787)
- Scope & Content:
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Receipt issued by Aurelius Apollonius and associate, public bankers and senators of Oxyrhynchus, to Tiberius Claudius Diogenes for the payment of the tax on sale on account of the purchase of part of a house. The house, located in Oxyrhynchus, was bought from Aurelia Ammonia. With signature of Aurelius Apollonius at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105472 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2440 : Receipt for Tax on Sale (P.Oxy. X 1284, TM 21787) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1244]/040-002105472
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, lacking its left-hand side; upper, right and lower margins extant. Writing is on one side along the fibres. Mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124274.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0250
- End Date:
- 0250
- Date Range:
- 15 December 250
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 210 x 103 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 255 x 155 mm.
Script: Cursive hand that tends to become rougher and more sloping from approximately the middle of the text onwards; with subscription in the last three lines.
- 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 1284
- 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.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri X (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1914), pp. 230-232, no. 1284.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 137.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 141.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Woman of Property: Techosous alias Eudaimonis’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 31 (1994), pp. 129-136 (p. 135).
C. Drecoll, Die Liturgien im römischen Kaiserreich des 3. und 4. Jh. n. Chr. Untesuchung über Zugang, Inhalt und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der öffentlichen Zwangsdienste in Ägypten und andere Provinzen (Stuttgart: Steiner 1997), p. 278.
B. Nielsen, K. A. Worp, ‘New Papyri from the New York University Collection: I’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 133 (2000), pp. 163-186 (p. 171).
B. E. Nielsen, K. A. Worp, Papyri from the New York University Collection II (P. NYU II) (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 2010), pp. 5, 7.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)