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Papyrus 1759
- Record Id:
- 040-002105583
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00022b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466160.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1759
- Title:
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Order to Deliver (SB XXIV 16281, P.Lond. V 1655, TM 19676)
- Scope & Content:
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Order of Apphous and Isidorianus to the cook Apollonius, who is instructed to deliver some meat to Pamuthius from Alkyonis, a recruit for whose supply they were liable. With subscriptions at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105583 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1759 : Order to Deliver (SB XXIV 16281, P.Lond. V 1655, TM 19676) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1358]/040-002105583
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus slip, pale-brown, lacking part of the left edge, with breaks at the bottom, abrasion and some surface damage in places; written on one side across the fibres; a strip of horizontal fibres was glued onto the surface at the height of line 3. The back is blank. On the front there are 10 lines; margins are minimal; the left margin survives opposite lines 1-4. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466160.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0364
- End Date:
- 0364
- Date Range:
- 20 June 364
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 80 x 140 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 130 x 185 mm.
Script: Three hands. Body of the document, lines 1-7: Large and proficient cursive hand with a slant to the right; end of line 7-line 8: second hand for the first subscription, same hand as for the subscription of P.Oxy. LXIII 4373; third hand: end of line 9-line 10: second subscription.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1757-1786 from Ali Abd-el-Haj on 12 October 1907.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1655
SB XXIV 16281 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 312.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), p. 16, no. 1655.
J. R. Rea, ‘Order to Deliver: P.Lond. V 1655 Revised’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 115 (1997), pp. 187-188.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 119.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XXIV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2003), p. 410, no. 16281.
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2004), p. 57.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 108.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Apollonius, cook; in the Oxyrhynchite nome, 4th century
Apphous, 4th century
Isidorianus, 4th century
Pamuthius, recruit, 4th century - Places:
- Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt
- Related Material:
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P.Oxy. LXIII 4373 (Sackler Library) is an order to supply wine issued by the same men.