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Papyrus 936
- Record Id:
- 040-003467779
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100088677746.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463807.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 936
- Title:
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Census Declaration (P.Lond. III 936, TM 22720)
- Scope & Content:
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Census declaration addressed to the scribes (amphodogrammateis) of a quarter of Hermopolis. The declarant is Aurelia Dioscorous, daughter of Hermaeus alias Pathotes, resident in another quarter, with the presence of her brother and husband Theognostus. Dioscorous registers herself, aged 30. With subscription of Aurelius Nicostratus at the end and line filler.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003467779 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 936 : Census Declaration (P.Lond. III 936, TM 22720) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0915]/040-003467779
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete; abraded to the left of the vertical fold in the middle, but well preserved as to the rest. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are 16 lines (the last bearing the continuation of the filler), which occupy the upper half of the sheet. All margins are extant, and the blank space at the bottom measures 110 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463807.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0217
- End Date:
- 0217
- Date Range:
- 16 March 217
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 252 x 210 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 305 x 265 mm.
Script: Thin, large cursive hand, occasionally compressed at the ends of the lines. The subscription is in a smaller hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite 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:
- P.Lond. III 936
- 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), pp. 30-31, no. 936.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 274.
M. Hombert, C. Préaux, Recherches sur le Recensement dans l’Égypte Romaine, in Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava (Lugduni Batavorum: E.J. Brill 1952), p. 53 and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 95.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Theognostos Alias Moros and His Family’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 76 (1989), pp. 213-218 (p. 215, no. 4).
R. S. Bagnall, B. W. Frier, The Demography of Roman Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994), pp. 298-299, no. 215-Hm-2.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 133.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 196).
A. Pudsey, ‘Nuptiality and the demographic life cycle’, in C. Holleran, A.l Pudsey (eds.), Demography and the Graeco-Roman World: New Insights and Approaches (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2011), pp. 60-98 (p. 83).
P. van Minnen, ‘A wet-nursing contract from Hermopolis’, in D. Minutoli (ed.), Inediti offerti a Rosario Pintaudi per il suo 65° compleanno (P.Pintaudi) (Firenze: Edizioni Gonnelli 2012), pp. 201-206 (p. 202).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)