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Papyrus 1409

Record Id:

040-003395002

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100056089323.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100059353490.0x000001

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 1409

Title:

Scope & Content:

Register of taxes paid in money and kind, arranged on the basis of places: after the epoikia, monasteries are also mentioned. Taxes are both ordinary and extraordinary.

Fol. 1r.-1v.: Small piece with no writing;

Fol. 2r.: Taxes from Aphrodito: single taxes with deductions, quota and balance;

Fol. 2v.: Continuation of further taxes from Aphrodito following the same structure; account of articles for requisition, specifying purposes and amounts, and then providing details of the articles; these are divided between those bought in the dioikesis and those bought elsewhere, but there is no entry for the former here; in two hands;

Fol. 3r.: Account of articles for requisition, additionally featuring manufactured items, subdivided into three groups: those manufactured in the dioikesis, with cost of manufacture and raw materials, those purchased in the dioikesis and those bought from elsewhere;

Fol. 3v.: Continuation of articles for requisition;

Fol. 4r.: Taxes from Pakaunis following the same arrangement as for Aphrodito; in two hands;

Fol. 4v.: List of items for requisition with the same arrangement;

Fol. 5r.: Further items from Pakaunis;

Fol. 5v.: Same arrangement, with taxes from Emphyteutai and requisitions; two hands;

Fol. 6r.: Continuation of requisitions;

Fol. 6v.: Taxes from Bounoi; two hands;

Fol. 7r.: Articles for requisition from Bounoi;

Fol. 7v.: Taxes from Keramion;

Fol. 8r.: Articles for requisition from Keramion;

Fol. 8v.: Taxes from Poimen, in two hands;

Fol. 9r.: Articles requisitioned from Poimen;

Fol. 9v.: Taxes and requisitions from Psyros;

Fol. 10r.: Taxes and requisitions from Hagios Pinoution;

Fol. 10v.: Taxes and requisitions items from Sakoore;

Fol. 11r.: Total of requisitions with deductions from the monasteries of Abba Hermaos, Tarous, Pharous;

Fol. 11v.: Total of requisitions with deductions from the monasteries of Barbarus and St. Mary.

Fol. 12r.: Summary of taxes;

Fol. 12v.: Continuation of the summary;

Fol. 13r.: Summary of articles for requisition;

Fol. 13v.- Fol. 14r.: Continuation of the summary;

Fol. 14v.: Written the other way up: summary restatement of the totals?

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-003395002

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 1409 : Register of Taxes (P.Lond. IV 1414, TM 39747)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0610]/040-003395002

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Book of 14 wide folios, consisting of several fragments of various sizes; none of them is complete, and of the first only a small fragment with no writing survives. Folios 3 to 14 were mounted in separate glass frames; the fragments of folios 1 and 2 were framed together. The unwritten fragment of folio 1 is attached to the left-hand side of the larger fragment of folio 2; two additional fragments of folio 2 were acquired in 1926. Corrections are added in the interlinear space, and sometimes old figures are also underlined.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0700

End Date:

0799

Date Range:

8th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Reconstructed size of each folio: 354 x 730 mm. Framed in 13 glass cases, all measuring 410 x 760 mm with the exception of Papyrus 1409 (10), which measures 410 x 815 mm, and Papyrus 1409 (14), which measures 410 x 335 mm.

Script: Neat, round minuscule of various sizes; folios 2, 4, 5v., 6v. and 8v. also display a rounder and larger hand in lighter ink.

Custodial History:

Origin: Aphrodito (Kom Ishgau), Antaiopolite nome, 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. Two additional fragments were acquired in 1926.

Former External References:

P.Lond. IV 1414

Publications:

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. 124-153.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter 1922), p. 301.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1958), p. 97 = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1964), p. 45.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1992), p. 337.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden 1995), p. 145.

F. Morelli, Olio e retribuzioni nell’Egitto tardo (V – VIII d. C.) (Firenze: Istituto papirologico "G.Vitelli" 1996), pp. 120-122.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1998), p. 106.

P. Mayerson, ‘ἁλυκῆϲ κ ^ϑ / in the Aphrodito Papyri = κόλλαϑον of Salt?’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 36 (1999), pp. 87-91 (passim).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2002), pp. 114-115.

On l. 7: A. Maravela-Solbakk, ‘Byzantine Inventory Lists of Food Provisions and Utensils on an Ashmolean Papyrus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 170 (2009), pp. 127-146 (p. 141).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2009), p. 105.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)