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Papyrus 1342
- Record Id:
- 040-003393468
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054933616.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058770484.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1342
- Title:
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Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1345, TM 19803)
- Scope & Content:
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Official letter from the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, concerning a fine to be levied. The reason is not stated in the preserved portion of the letter, but the sanction was to be fairly divided among the individuals involved on the basis of their wealth. Dated to the 8th indiction, Tybi 6. The editor suggested that the subject is the same as that of Papyrus 1357 (P.Lond. IV 1359), another official letter from the governor concerning a fine. The papyrus belongs to the archive of Basilius.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003393468 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1342 : Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1345, TM 19803) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0594]/040-003393468
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Long fragment of a papyrus roll written on one side, broken at the top and with a few gaps mostly affecting the first lines; ink is well preserved, with the exception of the last lines. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in one glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058770484.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0710
- End Date:
- 0710
- Date Range:
- 1 January 710
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 1060 x 200 mm. Mounted in a glass frame measuring 1190 x 345 mm.
Script: Cursive hand, sloping to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito (Kom Ishgau), Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1200-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. IV 1345
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 445.
H. I. Bell, ‘The Aphrodito Papyri’, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 28 (1908), pp. 97-120 (p. 109).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum IV. The Aphrodito Papyri ( London: British Museum 1910), pp. 17-19, no. 1345.
H. I. Bell, ‘Translations of the Greek Aphrodito Papyri in the British Museum’, Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 2 (1911), pp. 269-283 (pp. 276-277).
H. Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondance de Kurrah ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160 (p. 145).
A. Papaconstantinou, ‘The Rhetoric of Power and the Voice of Reason: Tensions Between Central and Local in the Correspondence of Qurra ibn Sharīk’, Official epistolography and the language(s) of power : proceedings of the First International Conference of the Research Network Imperium & Officium: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom, University of Vienna, 10-12 November 2010. Papyrologica Vindobonensia 8. (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2015), pp. 267-280 (passim).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)