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Papyrus 2910
- Record Id:
- 040-002105703
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002e3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468487.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2910
- Title:
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Advocate’s Speech? (SB X 10292, TM 14306)
- Scope & Content:
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Speech, presumably of ad advocate, held during a trial before some high official, against Potamon, former strategus of the division of Herakleides, for mismanagement in the collection of a farmed tax, perhaps the one on sale.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105703 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2910 : Advocate’s Speech? (SB X 10292, TM 14306) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0567]/040-002105703
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Lower part of a papyrus sheet, with abrasion and few holes; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. 24 lines from the foot of a column survive; the left margin measures 60 mm, the lower 30 mm and the right varies between 5-20 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468487.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0176
- End Date:
- 0176
- Date Range:
- 176?
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 220 x 222 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 260 x 270 mm.
Script: Fine, thin and large hand, more cursive in places; lines somewhat uneven.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Presented by Miss Evelyn Bocquet in October 1938.
- Former External References:
- SB X 10292
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1936-1945 I (London: British Museum, 1970), p. 438.
R. A. Coles, ‘Four Papyri from the British Museum’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 52 (1966), pp. 129-137 (pp. 129-131, no. 1).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten X (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1971), pp. 51-52, no. 10292.
F. Reiter, Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites: Ein Beitrag zum Steuerwesen im römischen Ägypten (Paderborn: F. Schöningh 2004), p. 282, n. 71.
T. V. Evans, D. Obbink (eds.), The language of the papyri (Oxford -New York: Oxford University Press 2010), p. 145.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)