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Papyrus 1226
- Record Id:
- 040-003524684
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101024499.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464641.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1226
- Title:
- Accounts (P.Lond. III 1226 ro., P.Lond. III 1226 vo. descr., TM 11769-11770)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (TM 11769): Account of receipts and expenditures for the month of Thoth of the current year, addressed to the landowner Aurelius Appianus from Aurelius Heroninus, estate manager. Among the expenses recorded are the salaries for Heroninus, herdsmen and donkey drivers. With further text in the margin.
Verso (TM 11770): Portions of an account of daily expenditure; unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003524684 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1226 : Accounts (P.Lond. III 1226 ro., P.Lond. III 1226 vo. descr., TM 11769-11770) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1472]/040-003524684
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Light-brown papyrus sheet, of paler colour in places, with few holes and breaks; the back displays surface damage, with lack of vertical fibres; written on both sides. On the front, there is one column written along the fibres, with traces of a preceding column; the back has three columns written across the fibres, with the first being mutilated. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464641.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0254
- End Date:
- 0255
- Date Range:
- 254-255
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 215 x 172 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 260 x 215 mm.
Script: Recto: Thin cursive hand of fair size. Verso: Similar hand.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 1200-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 1226 ro.
P.Lond. III 1226 vo. descr. - 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.
Recto
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 103-104, no. 1226 ro.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 278.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), pp. 214-215, no. 114.
D. Rathbone, Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century A.D. Egypt. The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991), pp. 414, 421-422.
D. P. Kehoe, Management and Investment on Estates in Roman Egypt during the Early Empire (Bonn: Habelt 1992), pp. 92-117.
R. Bogaert, ‘Liste géographique des banques et des banquiers de l’Égypte romaine, 30a-284’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 109 (1995), pp. 133-173 (p. 150).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 141.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 105.
D. Rathbone, ‘Economic Rationalism and the Heroninos Archive’, Topoi 12-13 (2005), pp. 261-269.
D. Rathbone, ‘The First Acquisition: The Archive of Heroninos’, in G. Bastianini, A. Casanova (eds.), 100 anni di istituzioni fiorentine per la papirologia: 1908. Società Italiana per la ricerca dei Papiri, 1928. Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli". Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi. Firenze, 12-13 giugno 2008 (Studi e Testi di Papirologia. N.S. 11) (Firenze: Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli” 2009), pp. 17-29.
Verso
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. lxvii, no. 1226 vo. descr.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aurelius Appianus, 231-259
Heroninus, estate manager, of Theadelpheia, Arsinoite nome, Egypt, ca. 199-275 - Places:
- Theadelpheia (Batn el-Harit), meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Related Material:
- The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Heroninus (TM Arch ID 103) and is part of the dossier of the Appianus estate.