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Papyrus 1338
- Record Id:
- 040-003394403
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055485412.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058770458.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1338
- Title:
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Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1339, TM 19797)
- Scope & Content:
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Official letter from the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, repeating the orders already given in Papyrus 1337 (P.Lond. IV 1338), written one month earlier. Basilius is urged to come to the head-quarters with some four men mentioned in a previous letter, and to bring the register of the district. This register, in addition to the details mentioned in Papyrus 1337, also has to contain details of the landed property of each individual with a distinction between vine-land and arable land; a list of fugitives is to be provided too. Dated to the 8th indiction, Phaophi 12. The papyrus belongs to the archive of Basilius.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003394403 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1338 : Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1339, TM 19797) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0605]/040-003394403
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Well preserved fragment of a papyrus roll, written on one side across the fibres, broken at the top but without gaps in the preserved portion; mounted on cardboard in one glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058770458.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0709
- End Date:
- 0709
- Date Range:
- 9 October 709
- 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: 650 x 205 mm. Mounted in a glass frame measuring 700 x 260 mm.
Script: Cursive hand, sloping to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito (Kom Ishgau), 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 Internal References:
- P.Lond. IV 1339
- 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.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum IV. The Aphrodito Papyri ( London: British Museum 1910), pp. 10-11, no. 1339.
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 (p. 273).
H. Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondance de Kurrah ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160 (p. 144).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)