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Papyrus 1885
- Record Id:
- 040-003393432
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054867108.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058770829.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1885
- Title:
- Copy of Report with Annexed Documents (P.Fam.Tebt. 15 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 15, TM 10732)
- Scope & Content:
-
Report sent to Sarapion, strategus of the meris of Herakleides, by the former gymnasiarch Isidorus, concerning some missing or damaged rolls of the public archives, with various annexed documents. The text is part of the archive of Philosarapis.
Lines 1-37: report by Isidorus annexing the letter from Sarapion with the instructions to deal with the matter;
lines 38-41: letter dated to 17 October 108 from the prefect Sulpicius Similis to Ulpius Leonides, strategus of the meris of Herakleides, regarding the petition sent by Heraclides, keeper of the public archives, and his partners;
lines 42-75: petition from Heraclides and partners to Sulpicius Similis;
lines 76-97: petition, dated to 15 May 98, from Isidorus and Protogenes, former keepers of the public archives, to the prefect Iunius Rufus;
lines 98-105: letter annexed to the petition of Isidorus and Protogenes, dated to 9 July 83, from the prefect Laberius Maximus to Pompeius Dionysodorus, strategus of the Oxyrhynchite nome, concerning the petition of Heraclides;
lines 106-109: reply of the prefect Iunius Rufus to the petition of Isidorus and Protogenes, dated to 21 June 98;
lines 110-130: letter dated to 19 May 103 from the prefect Minicius Italus to the strategi of the districts of the Arsinoite nome, concerning the building of a new storehouse and the transfer of the damaged rolls;
lines 131-146: report of a trial before Ulpius Leonides, dated to 16 June 109; two parties are present: the clerk Leonides against Heraclides and his partner's widow.
lines 147-156: written oath sworn by the clerk Leonides, dated to 16 June 109.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003393432 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1885 : Copy of Report with Annexed Documents (P.Fam.Tebt. 15 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 15, TM 10732) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0591]/040-003393432
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Long fragment of a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres, preserving six columns of various widths, the first of which is fragmentary; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058770829.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0114
- End Date:
- 0115
- Date Range:
- 114-115
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 210 x 1145 mm. Framed in a glass case measuring 360 x 1315 mm.
Script: two hands, the first thinner; the second is to be found in columns 5-6.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Tebtynis, meris of Polemon, Arsinoite nome, Egypt (?). Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1873-2016 from Ali Abd-el-Haj on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- P.Tebt.Fam. 15= Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 15
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum 1969), p. 475.
H. I. Bell, 'Notes from Papyri from the British Museum', Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 6 (1920), pp. 100-113 (pp. 100-104).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten IV (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1931), p. 48, no. 7378.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select Papyri II. Non-Literary Papyri (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1934), pp. 574-577, no. 422.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), p. 638, no. 389.
B. A. van Groningen, 'Un conflit du IIe siècle de notre ère', Chronique d'Égypte 22 (1947), pp. 313-332.
B. A. van Groningen, A Family Archive from Tebtunis (Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1950), pp. 46-62, no. 15.
R. Taubenschlag, ‘Survey of Papyri Chiefly from 1950 till 1951’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 5 (1951), pp. 253-275 (p. 259).
G. Flore, 'Appunti su P. fam. Tebt. 15', Studi in onore di Vincenzo Arangio Ruiz nel XLV anno del suo insegnamento (Napoli : Jovene 1953), pp. 387-394.
P. J. Parsons, 'New Readings', The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 6 (1969), p. 44.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 198.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)