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Papyrus 3062
- Record Id:
- 040-003417554
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061695801.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126126.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3062
- Title:
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Petition from a Fugitive Farmer (P.Oxy. XXVII 2479, TM 36070)
- Scope & Content:
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A petition addressed to an unnamed landlord, most likely a member of the Apion family, from Pieous from Kineas epoikion, a hamlet in the Oxyrhynchite nome. The man is a colonus adscripticius (registered farmer) who had escaped from his farming three years earlier and is now begging to be restored there and to be excused from the rent on land during his absence.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003417554 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3062 : Petition from a Fugitive Farmer (P.Oxy. XXVII 2479, TM 36070) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0658]/040-003417554
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two fragments of varying size from a papyrus sheet, one being the upper part of the document and the other its lower part, with at least one line lost in between; written on one side along the fibres and housed in one glass case. The surface is damaged on the upper left-hand side. Because of the carelessness of the text, which displays mistakes and omissions corrected by insertion, the text may be a draft.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126126.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Upper fragment: 105 x 220 mm; Lower fragment: 165 x 240 mm. Housed in one glass case measuring 330 x 280 mm.
Script: Main body of the document: sloping cursive. Different hands in the first 2 lines, the first being tall and upright, the second squarer hand and slightly inclined.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 3036-3063 by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society on 10 November 1962.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. XXVII 2479
- Publications:
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1962), pp. 177-180, no. 2479.
J. Th. Kakridis, ‘Poikila Hellenika. 14-16’, Hellenika 18 (1964), pp. 191-196.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 82.
J. Th. Kakridis, ‘Xero psomi’, in J. Th. Kakridis, L. Polites, Meletes kai arthra (Thessalonikē: 1971), pp. 262-264.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 109.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 259.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 149.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 163.
D. Feissel, J. Gascou, La pétition à Byzance (Paris: Association des amis du Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance 2004), pp. 178-179.
J. Diethart, ‘Eine Konjunktion heilt verderbte Textstellen in zwei griechischen Papyri’, Chronique d'Égypte 89 (2014), pp. 142-144 (p. 144).
N. Gonis, ‘Notes on Miscellaneous Documents IV’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 191 (2014), pp. 198-202 (p. 199).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)