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Papyrus 223
- Record Id:
- 040-003463546
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100086809477.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124014.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 223
- Title:
-
Fragment of a Register (P.Lond. II 223, TM 78456)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragment of a register, presumably a land-survey. With traces of a preceding column.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003463546 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 223 : Fragment of a Register (P.Lond. II 223, TM 78456) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0893]/040-003463546
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragment of papyrus from mummy cartonagge, with surface damage throughout; written on one side along the fibres with the back blank. It contains the upper left portion of one column with parts of 16 lines and traces of a preceding column. The upper margin is extant, the other margins are lost. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124014.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0180
- End Date:
- -0179
- Date Range:
- 180-179 BC?
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 176 x 94 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 220 x 205 mm.
Script: Skilled and regular upright semi-cursive hand exhibiting affinities with the contemporary literary hands.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Panopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 216-228 from the Reverend Greville John Chester (b. 1830, d. 1892) on 14 May 1892. Papyri 219-228 were taken from the cartonnage of a mummy case.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 223
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 412.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 3-4, no. 223, with pl. 2.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 242.
C. H. Roberts, Greek literary hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), p. 7 with pl. 7b.
T. C. Skeat, ‘Notes on Ptolemaic Chronology: IV. The 16th Year of Ptolemy Philopator as a Terminus ad quem’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 59 (1973), pp. 169-174 (p. 174).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 61.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), pp. 97-98.
G. Cavallo, ‘Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri’, in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 101-148 (p. 106).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)