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Papyrus 2732
- Record Id:
- 040-002105665
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002b9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143125172.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2732
- Title:
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Letter to Heroninus (SB VI 9362, TM 14159)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter from Sarapion to the estate-manager Heroninus, who is being informed that Alypius has ordered him to hand over a certain fisherman named Paesis to the cavalryman Apollonius so that the man may be brought before Alypius.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105665 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2732 : Letter to Heroninus (SB VI 9362, TM 14159) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1271]/040-002105665
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, nearly perfect, with a few small holes especially in correspondence of the folds. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143125172.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0264
- End Date:
- 0264
- Date Range:
- 15 December 264
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 152 x 105 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 205 x 155 mm.
Script: Large sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 2722-2740 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) in September 1925. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan and Wilfred Merton (b. 1888, d. 1957).
- Former External References:
- SB VI 9362
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 370.
J. Bingen, ‘Documents provenant des Archives d'Héroninos’, Chronique d'Égypte 25 (1950), pp. 87-101 (pp. 90-92).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band VI (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1963), pp. 197-198, no. 9362.
D. Rathbone, Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century A.D. Egypt. The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991), p. 21 and passim.
D. P. Kehoe, Management and Investment on Estates in Roman Egypt during the Early Empire (Bonn: Habelt 1992), pp. 92-117.
D. Rathbone, ‘Economic Rationalism and the Heroninos Archive’, Topoi 12-13 (2005), pp. 261-269.
D. Rathbone, ‘The First Acquisition: The Archive of Heroninos’, in G. Bastianini, A. Casanova (eds.), 100 anni di istituzioni fiorentine per la papirologia: 1908. Società Italiana per la ricerca dei Papiri, 1928. Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli". Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi. Firenze, 12-13 giugno 2008 (Studi e Testi di Papirologia. N.S. 11) (Firenze: Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli” 2009), pp. 17-29.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)