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Papyrus 1530
- Record Id:
- 040-003471981
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100092989566.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143122939.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1530
- Title:
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Private Letter (P.Oxy. III 530, TM 28370)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter from Dionysius to his mother Tetheus, notifying her of the taxes he has paid, and sending her 112 drachmas through the bearer of the letter, Chaeremon. Of these, 108 drachmas should be used to redeem the clothes he had pawned in order to obtain a loan from Sarapion. The sum he is sending has been lent. With a postscript in the left margin, asking to be informed after the festival as to whether the mother has recovered his clothes, and with address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003471981 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1530 : Private Letter (P.Oxy. III 530, TM 28370) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1010]/040-003471981
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete but damaged by insect holes and with minor abrasion in places; written on both sides along the fibres. The front bears one column of 29 lines, with 2 additional lines written in the left margin along the fibres, perpendicularly to the main text. On the back there is the address, with two words separated by blank space. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. III. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143122939.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 198 x 122 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 330 x 255 mm.
Script: Regular, well-formed and well-spaced hand, upright and mostly bilinear, occasionally ligatured and more cursive. - Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1523-1544 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in November 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. III 530
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 310.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri III (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1903), pp. 266-267, no. 530.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 325.
J. G. Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1933), p. 107.
M. Vandoni, Feste pubbliche e private nei documenti greci (Milano-Varese: Istituto editoriale cisalpino 1964), pp. 135-136, no. 158.
P. Head, ‘Named Letter-Carriers among the Oxyrhynchus Papyri’, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 31 (2009), pp. 279-299 (p. 288, with n. 21).
J. G. Keenan, J. G. Manning, U. Yiftach-Firanko (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 248-249, no. 5.3.4.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)