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Papyrus 1625
- Record Id:
- 040-003480172
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100099701229.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470193.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1625
- Title:
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Order to Pay (P.Lond. V 1798, TM 19769)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragmentary order from the dossier of Flavia Cyria, landowner in Oxyrhynchus, to supply wheat to the donkey drivers of the cursus velox (fast branch of the postal service).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003480172 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1625 : Order to Pay (P.Lond. V 1798, TM 19769) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1463]/040-003480172
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus piece lacking the right-hand half; darker along the right edge; with some holes in places; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. There are 5 lines; upper, lower and left margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470193.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0470
- End Date:
- 0470
- Date Range:
- 19 September 470
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 92 x 173 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 140 x 220 mm.
Script: Large, somewhat untidy cursive hand, with some flourishes.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1798
- 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. 311.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 256-257, no. 1798.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 304.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XXXIV (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1968), no. 2724.
J. Gascou, ‘Notes critiques sur quelques papyrus des Ve et VIe siècles’, Chronique d'Égypte 47 (1972), pp. 243-253 (pp. 248-250).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), pp. 65, 111.
N. Gonis, ‘Studies on the Aristocracy of Late Antique Oxyrhynchus’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 17 (2002), pp. 85-97 (pp. 86-87).
J. Banaji, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007), pp. 134-136.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)