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Papyrus 1731
- Record Id:
- 040-003481392
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100099898637.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466082.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1731
- Title:
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Letter (P.Lond. V 1791, TM 38863)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragmentary letter of the village headman (protokometes) Sambas to Sarapion, with endorsement on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003481392 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1731 : Letter (P.Lond. V 1791, TM 38863) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1468]/040-003481392
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, mutilated on the right-hand side and with surface damage throughout; written on both sides. The front bears 11 lines running against the fibres and lacking the ends; on the back there is one line written along the fibres at the top. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466082.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 140 x 241 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 190 x 285 mm.
Script: Thin, sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome or Heracleopolite nome (?), Egypt (Berkes 2017).
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome or Heracleopolite 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 1791
- 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), p. 247, no. 1791.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 109.
H. Harrauer, ‘Neue Protokometen-Papyri: Mit einer Dokumentation der Protokometen’, Aegyptus 81 (2001), pp. 47-159 (pp. 132, 136).
L. H. Blumell, ‘Christians on the Move in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus’, in Ph. H. Harland (ed.), Travel and Religion in Antiquity (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2011), pp. 235-254 (p. 252).
L. H. Blumell, Lettered Christians: Christians, letters, and late antique Oxyrhynchus (Leiden: Brill 2012), pp. 66, 274, 364.
L. Berkes, ‘Bemerkungen zu dokumentarischen Papyri aus dem 6.–7. Jh. II’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 32 (2017), pp. 251-255 (p. 251, no. 833).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)