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Papyrus 2454
- Record Id:
- 040-002105487
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00016e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124410.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2454
- Title:
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Sworn Declaration of Temple Lamp-Lighters (P.Oxy. XII 1453, TM 21854)
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of a declaration on oath addresseed to the superintendents of the temples, whereby four lamp-lighters, Thonis alias Patoiphis and Heraclides from the temple of Sarapis in Oxyrhynchus, and Paapis and Petosiris from the temple of Thoeris, undertake to supply oil for the daily lights burning in the temples for a fixed period, as they had done previously.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105487 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2454 : Sworn Declaration of Temple Lamp-Lighters (P.Oxy. XII 1453, TM 21854) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1302]/040-002105487
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, damaged by holes throughout and mostly mutilated in its lower portion. 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_100143124410.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0030
- End Date:
- -0029
- Date Range:
- 30-29 BCE
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 325 x 135 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 370 x 195 mm.
Script: Small, informal hand, with sequences of ligatured letters; letter sizes vary and lines are uneven.
- 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 1453
Sel.Pap. II 327 - 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. 166-170, no. 1453.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 368-371, no. 327.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 100.
M. Norsa, La scrittura letteraria greca dal secolo IV A.C. all'VIII (Firenze: Ariani 1939), pl. 8b.
C. H. Roberts, Greek literary hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), pl. 8b.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 137.
G. Menci, ‘Scritture greche librarie con apici ornamentali (III a.C.-II d.C.)’, Scrittura e civiltà 3 (1979) pp. 23-54 (plate 3).
T. C. Skeat, ‘The Augustan Era in Egypt: A Note on P.Oxy. XII. 1453’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 53 (1983), pp. 241-244.
D. Braund, Augustus to Nero: A Sourcebook on Roman History, 31 BC-AD 68 (London: Croom Helm 1985), pp. 274-275 no. 728.
B. Verbeeck, ‘Papyrologische Kleinigkeiten: Zu B.G.U. VI 1329, C.P.R. i 34, P.Oxy. XII 1453 und Stud.Pal. XX 70’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 70 (1987), pp. 116-118 (p. 116).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 246.
C. Bennett, ‘The Early Augustan Calendars in Rome and Egypt’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 142 (2003), pp. 221-240 (pp. 221, 229-230).
R. S. Bagnall, Hellenistic and Roman Egypt: sources and approaches (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum 2006), p. XII.
E. Grzybek, ‘Octavien et la prise d'Alexandrie en 30 av. J.-C.: deux notes chronologiques’, in Y. Perrin (ed.), Neronia VII. Rome, l'Italie et la Grèce. Hellénisme et philhellénisme au premier siècle après J.-C. Actes du VIIe Colloque international de la SIEN (Athènes, 21-23 octobre 2004) = Collection Latomus 305 (Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus 2007), pp. 145-157.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXI (London: Egypt Exploration Society 2007), p. 114.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter& Co. 2008), pp. 122-2123 no. 81.
J. de Jong, ‘Emperor Meets Gods: Divine Discourse in Greek Papyri from Roman Egypt’, Collegium: Studies Across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences 20 (2016), pp. 22-55 (p. 49).
G. Renberg, Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2017), p. 411 n. 41.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)