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Papyrus 955
- Record Id:
- 040-003467858
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100088839023.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463873.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 955
- Title:
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Application for Grain Dole (P.Lond. III 955, Chrest.Wilck. 425, TM 22748)
- Scope & Content:
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Application addressed to the city council of Hermopolis made by Aurelius Phibion, son of Panechotes, in order to receive the corn allowance granted by the emperors Macrianus and Quietus. With subscriptions of Phibion and Prodicus at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003467858 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 955 : Application for Grain Dole (P.Lond. III 955, Chrest.Wilck. 425, TM 22748) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0922]/040-003467858
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, lacking most of its left half, and with small insect holes located especially in the upper portion. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. Parts of 26 lines survive, most of which lack the beginning. The right margin is extant, and parts of the upper and lower margins survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463873.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0261
- End Date:
- 0261
- Date Range:
- 15 February 261
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 170 x 115 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 320 x 175 mm.
Script: Proficient and large cursive hand, sloping to the right; two other cursive hands, thicker and in darker ink, for the subscriptions in the last two lines.
- 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:
- Chrest.Wilck. 425
P.Lond. III 955
Sel.Pap. II 320 - 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. 127-128, no. 955, with pl. 60.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 4 (1908), pp. 526-568 (pp. 545-546).
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 502-503, no. 425.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 281.
J. G. Milne, ‘Aemilianus the "Tyrant"’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 10 (1924), pp. 80-82 (p. 80).
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 354-357, no. 320.
J.-M. Carrié, ‘Les distributions alimentaires dans les cités de l'empire romain tardif’, Mélanges de l'école française de Rome 87 (1975), pp. 995-1101.
D. Kienast, Römische Kaisertabelle: Grundzüge einer römischen Kaiserchronologie (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1990), p. 224.
M. Peachin, Roman imperial titulature and chronology: A.D. 235-284 (Amsterdam: Gieben 1990), pp. 40-41.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 182.
C. Drecoll, Die Liturgien im römischen Kaiserreich des 3. und 4. Jh. n. Chr: Untersuchung über Zugang, Inhalt und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der öffentlichen Zwangsdienste in Ägypten und anderen Provinzen (Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag 1997), pp. 50, 320, and passim.
R. Alston, The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt (London-New York: Routledge 2002), p. 132.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 112.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)