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Papyrus 2461
- Record Id:
- 040-002105494
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000175
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124505.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2461
- Title:
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Payments (P.Oxy. XII 1532 descr., TM 31756), and Sortes Astrampsychi (P.Oxy. XII 1477, TM 59320, LDAB 418, MP3 168.4)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Oxy. XII 1532 descr., TM 31756): Late third-century list of payments in wheat and barley by cultivators (georgoi). Unpublished.
Verso (P.Oxy. XII 1477, TM 59320, LDAB 418, MP3 168.4): Sortes Astrampsychi.
Column 1: traces of Sortes 46, 48, 50, 52-55.
Column 2: Sortes 72-92, arranged numerically.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105494 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2461 : Payments (P.Oxy. XII 1532 descr., TM 31756), and Sortes Astrampsychi (P.Oxy. XII 1477, TM 59320, LDAB 418, MP3 168.4) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0739]/040-002105494
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a sheet of papyrus, bearing writing on both sides, along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso. There are a few holes, mostly in the lower half of the sheet, which is somewhat damaged along the vertical fold. The text on the recto consists of the ends of thirteen lines from the top of a column, broken at the bottom and left. On the verso there is a column broken off at the bottom, of which twenty lines remain, and traces of a preceding column. Each column would have contained an average of 31 lines. Some fibres are missing and the surface is abraded in places. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124505.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0275
- End Date:
- 0325
- Date Range:
- late 3rd century-early 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 152 x 125 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 200 x 140 mm.
Script: Upright fluent cursive hand of medium size. Verso: Irregular semi-cursive hand, slanting to the right. High stop is employed between number and question.
- 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 1477
P.Oxy. XII 1532 descr.
PGM II 26 - 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.
Recto:
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1916), p. 265, no. 1532 descr.
Verso
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1916), pp. 235-236, no. 1477.
K. Preisendanz, Papyri graecae magicae: Die griechischen Zauberpapyri II ( Leipzig and Berlin: Teubner 1931), pp. 153-154, no. xxvi.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 436-439, no. 195.
G. Björck, ‘Heidnische und christliche Orakel mit fertigen Antworten’, Symbolae Osloenses 19 (1939), pp. 86-98.
E. G. Turner, Greek Papyri: an Introduction (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 1968), p. 188, n. 59.
G. M. Browne, The papyri of the Sortes Astrampsychi (Meisenheim am Glan: A. Hain 1974), pp. 17-28.
J. Hengstl, Griechische Papyri aus Ägypten als Zeugnisse des öffentlichen und privaten Lebens (München: Heimeran Verlag 1978), no. 65.
Α. Bülow-Jacobsen, ‘Orakler i det graesk-romersk Aegypten’, in B. Alster, P. J. Frandsen (eds.), Dagligliv blandt guder og mennesker: Den nære Orient i oldtiden (Copenhagen: Københavns Universitet, Museum Tusculanum 1986), pp. 189-194.
F. Kudlien, ‘Empticius servus: Bemerkungen zum antiken Sklavenmarkt’, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 35 (1986), pp. 240-256.
W. M. Brashear, 'The Greek Magical Papyri: an Introduction and Survey; Annotated Bibliography (1928-1994)', in W. Haase et al. (eds.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II, 18.5 (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter 1995), pp. 3380-3684 (p. 3548).
R. Stewart, Sortes Astrampsychi II. Ecdosis altera (BSGRT) (München: Teubner-K. G. Saur 2001), pp. VIII-IX, P1.
R. Burnet, L' Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus: vie quotidienne (Paris: Pygmalion 2003), pp. 167-168, no. 103.
F. Naether, Die Sortes Astrampsychi. Problemlösungsstrategien durch Orakel im römischen Ägypten (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2010), pp. 73, 76, 78 and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)