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Papyrus 846
- Record Id:
- 040-003464639
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100087869806.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463607.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 846
- Title:
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Petition (P.Lond. III 846, Chrest.Wilck. 325, TM 11799)
- Scope & Content:
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Petition from a weaver of Soknopaiou Nesos whose name is lost, complaining about his appointment as a village elder. The recipient is lost too. Dated to January-February or July-August 140.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003464639 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 846 : Petition (P.Lond. III 846, Chrest.Wilck. 325, TM 11799) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0899]/040-003464639
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Lower portion of a papyrus sheet, broken off at the top and damaged in the bottom right edge; with surface damage throughout; writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There is one column of 18 lines, with traces of another at the top; the last 2 lines lack the ends. Left and lower margins are extant; no margin was left to the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463607.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0140
- End Date:
- 0140
- Date Range:
- 140
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 169 x 78 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 220 x 130 mm.
Script: Rough, medium-sized cursive hand, occasionally compressed at the end of the lines; lines exhibit a slight tendency to incline downwards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 835-878 by the executors of William Joseph Myers, F. S. A., (b. 1858, d. 1899) through R. Taylor in 1900.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 325
P.Lond. III 846 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 440.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. 131, no. 846.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 382, no. 325.
S. LR. Wallace, Taxation in Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press 1938), p. 196.
C. A. Nelson, ‘Another Memphis Poll Tax Receipt’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 32 (1995), pp. 133-141 (p. 139).
F. Reiter, Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites: Ein Beitrag zum Steuerwesen im römischen Ägypten (Paderborn: F. Schöningh 2004), p. 128, n. 84.
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 339.
N. Gonis, 'Notes on Miscellaneous Documents VII', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 218 (2021), 158-62 (p. 162, no. 104).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)