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Papyrus 1779
- Record Id:
- 040-003437060
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100074435408.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123301.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1779
- Title:
- Letter to the Village Headman (protokometes) Apollos from an Official of Menas, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. V 1684, TM 19702)
- Scope & Content:
- A letter from one of the officials of Menas, the chief administrator of a city (pagarch), addressed to the village headman (protokometes) Apollos. Reference is made to a certain Demosthenes, described as most glorious (endoxotatos).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003437060 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1779 : Letter to the Village Headman (protokometes) Apollos from an Official of Menas, Pagarch of Aphrodito (P.Lond. V 1684, TM 19702) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0822]/040-003437060
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Broad sheet of papyrus, folded from the bottom upwards and possibly from each side towards the middle. Incomplete at the bottom-right side, where two small fragments, which do not directly join the major one, are still preserved. Written across the fibres, with a docket on the verso written along the fibers occupying. Mounted in glass.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123301.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0566
- End Date:
- 0567
- Date Range:
- 29 August 566-567
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 100 x 307 mm, mounted in a glass case measuring 180 x 365 mm.
Script: A flowing cursive hand of an official type. Probably the same hand as P.Lond. V 1682.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1757-1786 from Ali Abd-el-Haj on 12 October 1907.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1684
- 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. 312.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Vol. V. (London: British Museum 1917), p. 80
P. Jernstedt, ‘Kritisch-lexicalisches’, Aegyptus 10 (1929) pp. 73-79 (p. 79)
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Selbstverlag des Verf. 1933) p. 84 (= Jernstedt 1929).
A. H. M. Jones, Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. IIIB (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971), pp. 875-876.
B. Palme, ‘Die riparii des Dorfes Aphrodite. Claudius bzw. Flavius Apollos, Aurelius Apollos und Flavius Victor’, in H. Hertner, K. Tomaschitz (eds.), Ad fontes! Festschrift für Gerhard Dobesch zum fünfundsechzigsten Geburtstag am 15 September 2004 (Wien: Eigenverl. der Hrsg. 2004), pp. 841-854.
G. Ruffini, Social Networks in Byzantine Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008), pp. 190-194.
G. Ruffini, Prosopography of Byzantine Aphrodito (Durham: American Society of Papyrologists 2011, American Studies in Papyrology 50), pp. 83-84, 372-374.
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)