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Papyrus 2465
- Record Id:
- 040-002105498
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000179
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467836.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2465
- Title:
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Petition to the Chief of Police (P.Oxy. XII 1559, TM 21925)
- Scope & Content:
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Beginning of a petition addressed to Aurelius Dioscorus, chief of the police (epoptes eirenes), from Aurelius Aristion, son of Ptolemaeus, councillor at Oxyrhynchus, complaining about the treatment received by a certain Besammon, son of Apollos, of Paneuei.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105498 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2465 : Petition to the Chief of Police (P.Oxy. XII 1559, TM 21925) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1309]/040-002105498
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Top of a mid-brown papyrus sheet, torn along the left edge and with surface damage throughout; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; a strip of vertical fibres is visible along the right edge. Portions of 12 lines from the top of a column remain; the upper margin survives, the right is minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467836.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0341
- End Date:
- 0341
- Date Range:
- 13 November 341
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 97 x 149 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 145 x 200 mm.
Script: Neat and proficient cursive hand, upright and with some flourishes.
- 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 1559
- 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. 366.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part XII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1916), pp. 274-275, no. 1559.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 336.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 143.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)