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Papyrus 933
- Record Id:
- 040-003467753
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100088594633.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463792.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 933
- Title:
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Receipt for Payment of Tax on Sale (P.Lond. III 933, Chrest.Wilck. 294, TM 11821)
- Scope & Content:
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Receipt acknowledging the payment of the tax on sale, made to Apion, nomarch of the Arsinoite nome, through Anubion alias Syrion by Longinia Sarapias on account of an olive orchard she purchased near Philadelphia. In the date at the beginning, the name of Geta was erased.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003467753 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 933 : Receipt for Payment of Tax on Sale (P.Lond. III 933, Chrest.Wilck. 294, TM 11821) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0913]/040-003467753
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet of light colour, with dark stains along the right edge, lacking the bottom left edge and with some surface damage in the left half. Writing runs on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. A strip of vertical fibres is visible in the left half of the sheet. There are 21 lines, the last 8 of which lack the beginning. Upper and right margins are extant, the right being minimal; the left margin survives up to line 14; the right portion of the lower margin remains. Vertical folds are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463792.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0211
- End Date:
- 0211
- Date Range:
- 25 May 211
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 227 x 82 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 280 x 135 mm.
Script: Thin and sloping cursive hand of medium size; lines tend to incline upwards. Same hand as P.Graux II 16.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 884-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 294
P.Lond. III 933 - 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. 441.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. 69, no. 933, with plate 45.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 4 (1908), pp. 526-568 (pp. 534).
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 345, no. 294.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 277.
G. Messeri, R. Pintaudi, ‘Apion, nomarca dell’Arsinoites’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 120 (1998), pp. 131–144 (pp. 134, 138).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 101.
- Exhibitions:
- Defacing the past. Damnation and desecration in imperial Rome, British Museum, 13 October 2016 - 7 May 2017
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Anubion, assistant (boethos); alias Syrion, late 2nd century - early 3rd century
Aurelius Apion, nomarch (district governor) of the Arsinoite nome, 193-212
Longinia Sarapias, late 2nd century- early 3rd century - Places:
- Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza), Egypt