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Papyrus 1200
- Record Id:
- 040-003475871
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100097956355.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464515.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1200
- Title:
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Bank Receipt for Tax on Sale (P.Lond. III 1200, TM 5900)
- Scope & Content:
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Receipt through the bank of Psenchonsis at Diospolis Magna for the payment of the transfer tax for the sale a house on the East bank in the quarter of Chrysopolis, purchased by Senyris, daughter of Thotsymis. With official dockets at the end and original clay seal, apparently showing a figure advancing to the left.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003475871 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1200 : Bank Receipt for Tax on Sale (P.Lond. III 1200, TM 5900) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1158]/040-003475871
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus roll, complete but with damage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are three columns of writing; the first has 1 line, the second 12 lines and the third 3 lines. Margins are extant. The original clay seal is in the left margin. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464515.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0209
- End Date:
- -0209
- Date Range:
- 20 October 209 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus; clay.
Dimensions: 160 x 461 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 530 mm.
Script: Large, upright cursive hand. Different hand for the subscription.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Diospolis Magna (Thebes East), 4th Upper Nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Memnoneia – Djeme (Thebes West), 4th Upper Nome, Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising papyri 1201-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 1200
- 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. 444.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 2-3, no. 1200, with pl. 1.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 272.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 44.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 186.
P.W. Pestman, ‘A family archive which changes history’, in S. P. Vleeming, Hundred-gated Thebes: acts of a colloqium on Thebes and the Theban area in the Graeco-Roman period (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 27) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 93.
R. Bogaert, ‘Liste géographique des banques et des banquiers de l’Égypte ptolémaïque’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 120 (1998), pp. 165-202 (p. 177).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 105.
Ch. Armoni, ‘Drei ptolemäische Papyri der Heidelberger Sammlung’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 132 (2000), pp. 225-239 (p. 226) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 103.
B. Muhs, Tax receipts, taxpayers, and taxes in early Ptolemaic Thebes (The Oriental Institute 126) (Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 2005), pp. 126-127, p. 131.
B. Muhs, ‘More papyri from the archive of Panas son of Espemetis’, Enchoria 34 (2014-2015), pp. 89-103.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)