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Papyrus 2785
- Record Id:
- 040-002105679
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002d5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471246.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2785
- Title:
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Acta Isidori (CPJ II 156(b), TM 58946, LDAB 41, MP3 2221)
- Scope & Content:
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Portion of the Acta Isidori, containing minutes of the trial of Isidorus, gymnasiarch of Alexandria, before the emperor Claudius.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105679 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2785 : Acta Isidori (CPJ II 156(b), TM 58946, LDAB 41, MP3 2221) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0553]/040-002105679
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a medium- to dark-brown papyrus roll, partially complete at the top, broken off on the other sides; written on one side along the fibres. The back is blank. The front bears portions of two columns; of the first, only the ends of the lines survive, of the second, only the beginnings. Part of the upper margin survives. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471246.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0249
- Date Range:
- 1st half of 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 195 x 118 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 245 x 165 mm.
Script: Small, sloping semi-cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Panopolis (Akhmim) (?), Egypt. Purchased by Harold Idris Bell for the British Museum from an antiquities dealer at Akhmim in November 1926 (see Bell, 'A new fragment' (1932)). The lot comprising Papyri 2784-2849 was purchased from various dealers in Upper Egypt and Cairo as part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, and Wilfred Merton (b. 1888, d. 1957).
- Former External References:
- CPJ II 156(b)
- Publications:
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Harold Idris Bell, ‘A new fragment of the Acta Isidori’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 10 (1932), 5-16.
Aldo Neppi Modona, ‘Il nuovo frammento di una redazione variata degli " Atti di Isidoro " (PLond. 2785)’, Aegyptus, 12 (1932), 333-38.
Victor A. Tcherikover, Alexander Fuks, Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum. 3vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957-1960), 2 (1960), no. 156 b.
Herbert Musurillo, Acta Alexandrinorum. De mortibus Alexandriae nobilium fragmenta papyracea graeca (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1961-1964), pp. 18-26, 117-40, no. 4 B.
Andrew Harker, Loyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt. The Case of the Acta Alexandrinorum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 188-89.
Adriano Magnani, Il processo di Isidoro. Roma e Alessandria nel primo secolo (Napoli: Il Mulino, 2009), pp. 7-8, 16-19.
Chris Rodriguez, ‘Les Acta Isidori: Un procès pénal devant l'Empereur Claude’, Revue historique de droit français et étranger, 88 (2010), 1-41 (p. 4).
Natalia Vega Navarrete, Die Acta Alexandrinorum im Lichte neuerer und neuester Papyrusfunde (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), pp. 148-57, no. 3.3.1.2 (with further bibliography).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)