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Papyrus 1687(a-b)
- Record Id:
- 040-003434505
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100071593198.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123162.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1687(a-b)
- Title:
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Tax Receipt (P.Lond. V 1739, TM 38843) and Order for Payment (P.Lond. V 1805, TM 35260) and Fragment of a Letter (TM 39666)
- Scope & Content:
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Top papyrus (Papyrus 1687a, P.Lond. V 1739, TM 38843, TM 39666): A seventh- or eighth-century receipt for land-tax (δημόσια) and poll-tax (διάγραφον) of the fourth indiction issued to Abba Iustus, the notary. The text is signed by Taurinus and Severus. On the other side there are two fragmentary lines of a letter in Greek.
Bottom papyrus (Papyrus 1687b, P. Lond. V 1805, TM 35260): A fifth- or sixth-century order addressed to Silvanus to pay the assistant Asclepiades 15 artabas of wheat on account of an attendant.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003434505 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1687(a-b) : Tax Receipt (P.Lond. V 1739, TM 38843) and Order for Payment (P.Lond. V 1805, TM 35260) and Fragment of a Letter (TM 39666) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0815]/040-003434505
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyri of different size not belonging together and housed in one glass case.
Top papyrus (Papyrus 1687a): Small papyrus sheet, written on both sides.
Bottom papyrus (Papyrus 1687b): Papyrus sheet, with a few gaps throughout; writing is on one side across the fibres.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123162.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0400
- End Date:
- 0799
- Date Range:
- 5th century-8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Papyrus 1687a: 80 x 117 mm; Papyrus 1687b: 51 x 270 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 185 x 310 mm.
Script: Papyrus 1687a: Sloping minuscule hand. Other side: Sloping cursive. Papyrus 1687b: Large, straggling and broken cursive. Perhaps a second hand wrote the final greetings in line 4.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Papyrus 1687a: Hermopolite nome (?), Egypt. Papyrus 1687b: Egypt.
Provenance: Papyrus 1687a: Hermopolite nome (?), Egypt. Papyrus 1687b: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1739
P.Lond. V 1805 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.
Papyrus 1687a:
Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Vol. V. (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 203-204, no. 1739.
I. J. Poll‚ ‘Korr. Tyche 202’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 10 (1995), p. 249.
N. Gonis, ‘Notes on Two Epistolary Conventions’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 119 (1997), pp. 148–154 (p. 153).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 107.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 121.
B. Nielsen, K. A. Worp, ‘New Papyri from the New York University Collection: IV (nos. 38 - 53)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 149 (2004), pp. 103–124 (p. 109).
N. Gonis, ‘Reconsidering Some Fiscal Documents from Early Islamic Egypt III’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 169 (2009), pp. 197-208 (pp. 199-201).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII, (Leiden–Heidelberg: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 127.
Papyrus 1687b:
Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Vol. V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 259-260, no. 1805.
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)