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Papyrus 971
- Record Id:
- 040-003467983
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100089035083.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463925.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 971
- Title:
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Report of Legal Proceedings (P.Lond. III 971, Chrest.Mitt. 95, TM 31971)
- Scope & Content:
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Record of a hearing held before some high official concerning a dispute over the appointment to a liturgy (compulsory public service). The advocate of Sallustia, owner of land in the Hermopolite nome, complains that one of her overseers has been appointed for a tax-collection liturgy; the matter is referred for judgement to the praepositus pagi (civilian official).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003467983 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 971 : Report of Legal Proceedings (P.Lond. III 971, Chrest.Mitt. 95, TM 31971) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0926]/040-003467983
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, darker by patches, complete but torn along the edges and with few holes and minor surface damage throughout. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are 20 lines, well preserved; some of these are indented. Upper and left margins are extant; parts of lower and right margins survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463925.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0300
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 238 x 377 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 290 x 425 mm.
Script: Regular and proficient curisive hand of medium size, thin and neat.
- 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.Mitt. 95
P.Lond. III 971 - 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. 128-129, no. 971, with pl. 64.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 4 (1908), pp. 526-568 (p. 547).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 281.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 114-116, no. 95.
N. Lewis, ‘Two Petitions for Recovery (P. Col. Inv. Nos 61 and 62; 318 A.D.)’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 2 (1948), pp. 51-66 (pp. 54-55).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 182.
J. Beaucamp, ‘Discours et normes: la faiblesse féminine dans les textes protobyzantins’, Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz 5 (1994), pp. 199-220 (p. 211).
F. A. J. Hoogendijk, B. P. Muhs (eds.), Sixty-Five Papyrological Texts Presented to Klaas A. Worp on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2008), p. 189.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)