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Papyrus 32
- Record Id:
- 040-003434449
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100071280951.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126391.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 32
- Title:
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Official Notice (P.Forshall XLIV, P.Lond. I 32, W.Chr. 24, TM 19999) and Accounts (P.Lond.Copt. 698 descr., TM 86304)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Forshall XLIV, P.Lond. I 32, W.Chr. 24, TM 19999): An official notice containing measures taken against fugitives, possibly sailors; dated to 30 May 698 or less probably 713.
Verso (P. Lond. Copt. 698 descr., TM 86304): Greek accounts with Coptic words.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003434449 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 32 : Official Notice (P.Forshall XLIV, P.Lond. I 32, W.Chr. 24, TM 19999) and Accounts (P.Lond.Copt. 698 descr., TM 86304) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0674]/040-003434449
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragment of a light-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the left, top, and right on the recto, and at the left, bottom, and right on the verso. On the recto there is a Greek text written against the fibres, on the verso there is a Greek text with Coptic words (Sahidic with Fayumic influences) running along the fibres. Mounted on paper in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126391.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Coptic
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Coptic
Greek - Start Date:
- 0600
- End Date:
- 0799
- Date Range:
- end of 7th century-8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 390 x 410 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 440 x 465 mm.
Script: Recto: Stylized chancery script; Verso: Cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased with Papyri 26-36 at Salt’s sale in 1835.
- Former External References:
- P.Forshall XLIV
P.Lond. I 32
P.Lond.Copt. 698 descr.
W.Chr. 24 - Publications:
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Recto:
J. Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1839) No. XLIV.
C. Wessely, 'Griechische Papyri des British Museum', Wiener Studien VIII (1886), p. 212.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 230-231, no. 32.
H. I. Bell, ‘The Aphrodito Papyri’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 28 (1908), pp. 97-120 (pp. 111-112).
L. Mitteis , U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde I, II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 40, no. 24.
E. M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1912), p. 183 no. 42, and pp. 180, 184.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period (London: University of London, Inst. of Classical Studies 1987), p. 95 no. 43b.
E. Crisci, Scrivere greco fuori d’Egitto: Ricerche sui manoscritti greco-orientali di origine non egitziana dal IV secolo a. C. al VII d. C., Papyrologica Florentina 27 (Florence: Gonelli 1996), Tav. LXXII a.
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri (Rome: Serra 2008), p. 140 [113].
Verso:
C. Wessely, 'Griechische Papyri des British Museum', Wiener Studien IX (1887), p. 243
W. E. Crum, Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1905), p. 310, no. 698 descr.
J. Cromwell, 'Aristophanes Son of Johannes: An Eighth-Century Bilingual Scribe? A Study of Graphic Bilingualism', in A. Papaconstantinou (Ed.), The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids (Farnham: Ashgate 2010) pp. 221-232 (p. 229).
J. De Jong, 'Arabia, Arabs, and ‘Arabic’ in Greek Documents from Egypt', in S. Bouderbala et alii (edd.), New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology: Arabic and Multilingual Texts from Early Islam (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2017), pp. 1-27 (p. 21).
Metadata provided by the 2018 Heidelberg Research Webinar on BL Greek Papyri, funded by the MWK Baden-Württemberg and taught by R. Ast and L. Berkes.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)