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Papyrus 2455
- Record Id:
- 040-002105488
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00016f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124422.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2455
- Title:
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Sworn Undertaking of an Oil-Seller (P.Oxy. XII 1455, TM 21856)
- Scope & Content:
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Declaration on oath addressed to Aurelius Herammon, strategus of the Oxyrhynchite nome, by Aurelius Theodorus, an oil-seller of Oxyrhynchus, who undertakes to provide fine oil at the market-place on a daily basis. With signatures of Theodorus and his surety Aurelius Sarapammon written by Aurelius Silvanus, and of another man.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105488 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2455 : Sworn Undertaking of an Oil-Seller (P.Oxy. XII 1455, TM 21856) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1303]/040-002105488
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, damaged by a few wormholes throughout and broken at the bottom and top; in its upper portion the layer of horizontal fibres is mostly lost, and the vertical fibres forming the back survive occasionally. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124422.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0275
- End Date:
- 0275
- Date Range:
- 19 October 275
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 218 x 91 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 260 x 140 mm.
Script: Three hands: Upright cursive hand; more cursive hand, sloping to the right, for the subscription at the end. A third hand occurs in the last two lines, of which only a few traces remain.
- 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 1455
- 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. 172-174, no. 1455.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), p. 369, no. 212.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 137.
D. Hagedorn, ‘᾽Οξυρύγχων πόλιϛ und ἡ ᾽Οξυρυγχιτῶν πόλιϛ’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 12 (1973), pp. 277-292 (p. 285).
J. E. G. Whitehorne, ‘A Checklist of Oxyrhynchite Strategi’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 29 (1978), pp. 167-189 (p. 181).
E. Kettenhofen, ‘Zur Siegestitulatur Kaiser Aurelians’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 1 (1986), pp. 138-146 (p. 138).
Ph. Mayerson, ‘Qualitative Distinctions for ε̌λαιον (Oil) and ψωμίον (Bread)’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 39 (2002), pp. 101-109 (pp. 103-104).
R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1993), p. 87, n. 265.
H.Parkins, C. J. Smith, Trade, Traders, and the Ancient City (London-New York: Routledge 1998), p. 186.
G. Kreucher, Der Kaiser Marcus Aurelius Probus und seine Zeit (Stuttgart: Steiner 2003), p. 54.
K. Strobel, Von Noricum nach Ägypten: Eine Reise durch die Welt der Antike. Aktuelle Forschungen zu Kultur, Alltag und Recht in der römischen Welt (Altertumswissenschaftliche Studien Klagenfurt) (Klagenfurt: Mohorjeva Hermagoras 2007), pp. 244-245, n. 31.
A. Chastagnol, S. Benoist, S. Demougin, Le pouvoir impérial à Rome: figures et commemorations (Genève: Droz 2008), pp. 189, 194.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)