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Papyrus 2450
- Record Id:
- 040-002105483
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00016a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124369.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2450
- Title:
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Circulars on Dykes and Canals (P.Oxy. XII 1409, TM 21819)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter from Aurelius Harpocration, strategus of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to the decaproti of the nome, enclosing the copy of a circular written by the dioecetes Ulpius Aurelius. In view of the approaching inundation of the Nile, Ulpius Aurelius orders the building up of dykes, the cleansing of the canals and the appointment of special supervisors; labour is expected from cultivators, and no money payment is to be accepted from them in place of their work.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105483 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2450 : Circulars on Dykes and Canals (P.Oxy. XII 1409, TM 21819) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1299]/040-002105483
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, damaged on the right and lacking a small portion of the lower left margin; a few holes are visible throughout. The left margin measures between 20 and 23 mm, the upper 17 mm, and the lower is included between 16 and 19 mm. Writing is on one side along the fibres. The last line, written by a different hand, is in brownish ink. Mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124369.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0278
- End Date:
- 0278
- Date Range:
- 1 April 278
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 214 x 283 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 270 x 335 mm.
Script: Sloping cursive; different hand in the last line.
- 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. XII 1409
Sel.Pap. II 225 - 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 XII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1916), pp. 16-20, no. 1409.
W. L. Westermann, ‘The Papyri and the Chronology of the Reign of the Emperor Probus’, Aegyptus 1 (1920), pp. 297-301 (p. 299 and passim).
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 116-119, no. 225.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 99.
S. Eitrem, ‘Varia’, Symbolae Osloenses 17 (1937), pp. 103-106 (p. 106).
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), pp. 24-25, no. 10.
H. C. Youtie, ‘ἉΠΛΗ, ΔΙΠΛΗ, ΤΡΙΠΛΗ, ἘΡΓΑϹΙΑ. P.Mich. inv. 412 recto’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 24 (1977), pp. 133-137 (pp. 134, 136).
R. Hübner, ‘Oath of a Dike Overseer’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 24 (1977), pp. 43-53 (pp. 51, 53).
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 377.
N. Lewis, Life in Egypt under Roman Rule (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press 1983), p. 112.
L. Migliardi Zingale, Vita privata e vita pubblica nei papiri d'Egitto: silloge di documenti greci e latini dal I al IV secolo d.C. (Torino: Giappichelli 1992), pp. 94-97, no. 44.
R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1993), p. 17.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), pp. 125, 162.
G. Kreucher, Der Kaiser Marcus Aurelius Probus und seine Zeit (Stuttgart: F. Steiner 2003), pp. 52, 56.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)