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Papyrus 2453
- Record Id:
- 040-002105486
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00016d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124400.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2453
- Title:
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Estimate of Repairing a Public Building (P.Oxy. XII 1450, TM 21851)
- Scope & Content:
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An estimate perhaps addressed to the city council, made by a carpenter as to the costs of roofing, plastering and repairing a public building. The building included a room for exercises and a set of baths.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105486 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2453 : Estimate of Repairing a Public Building (P.Oxy. XII 1450, TM 21851) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1301]/040-002105486
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a papyrus sheet, broken off at the top, lacking its left half and with a few holes in the preserved portion. The right margin is included between 10 and 15 mm, the lower measures 45 mm. Vertical folds are visible. The text runs along the fibres and the back is blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124400.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0249
- End Date:
- 0250
- Date Range:
- 249-250
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 180 x 114 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 230 x 165 mm.
Script: Clear and regular sloping hand; different hand for the subscription in the last line, more cursive.
- 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 1450
- 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. 145-148, no. 1450.
A. Łukaszewicz, Les édifices publics dans les villes de l'Égypte romaine: problèmes administratifs et financiers (Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 1986), pp. 87, 136 and passim.
R. Alston, The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt (London-New York: Routledge 2002), p. 254.
P. Barresi, Province dell'Asia Minore: costo dei marmi, architettura pubblica e committenza (Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider 2003), pp. 56-57.
C. Sánchez-Moreno Ellart, ‘Ipsis liberis posterisque eorum: Die Bedeutung der Geburtsurkunden von Soldaten derAuxiliareinheiten und der Wandel im Formular vondiplomata militaria im Jahre 140 n. Chr. Ausweislich RMD I 39 und RMD IV 266’, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung fur Rechtsgeschichte 125 (2008), pp. 348-374 (p. 355).
K.-J. Johne, T. Gerhardt, U. Hartman, Deleto paene imperio Romano: Transformationsprozesse des römischen Reiches im 3. Jahrhundert und ihre Rezeption in der Neuzeit (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2006), p. 229.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)