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Papyrus 1377
- Record Id:
- 040-003409375
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057934073.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058770611.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1377
- Title:
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Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1344, TM 19802)
- Scope & Content:
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Official letter from the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, to whom an order already issued in the past is being repeated: he is to send back fugitives from the Arsinoite nome. Why he did not do this earlier is unknown to the governor. The document is dated to the 8th indiction, the month being lost. The papyrus belongs to the archive of Basilius.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003409375 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1377 : Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. IV 1344, TM 19802) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0620]/040-003409375
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a papyrus roll, quite damaged throughout, although the writing is affected only in a few cases; with the docket on the verso.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058770611.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0710
- End Date:
- 0710
- Date Range:
- After 2 April 710
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 520 x 210 mm. Framed in one glass case measuring 570 x 260 mm and mounted on cardboard, with the exception of the part bearing writing on the verso.
Script: Cursive hand, sloping to the right and with letters extending below and above the writing line.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, 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 1344
- 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. 16-17, no. 1344.
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. 275-276).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 64.
A. Papaconstantinou, ‘The Rhetoric of Power and the Voice of Reason: Tensions Between Central and Local in the Correspondence of 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 (p. 270).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)