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Papyrus 1246
- Record Id:
- 040-003524903
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101102846.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464752.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1246
- Title:
- Nomination of Water-Guards (P.Lond. III 1246, TM 22859)
- Scope & Content:
- Two copies of a return from two village heads (komarchai), listing individuals nominated for the water-control (hydrophylakia); written by Aurelius Anubas. The recipients are lost, but were Flavius Olympiodorus alias Asyncritius and Achilleus, superintendents of the dykes (see Papyri 1247 and 1248).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003524903 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1246 : Nomination of Water-Guards (P.Lond. III 1246, TM 22859) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1477]/040-003524903
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Two papyrus sheets, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
Left papyrus (A): Broken off at the top and damaged by insect holes throughout; one column of which 24 lines survive; part of the left margin remains, the lower is extant and measures 70 mm, and no margin was left to the right.
Right papyrus (B): Broken off at the top and mutilated especially on the left-hand side; one column of which portions of 31 lines remain. Left and lower margins partly survive, and no margin was left on the right.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464752.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0345
- End Date:
- 0345
- Date Range:
- 20 August 345
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 227 x 146; B: 232 x 153 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 285 x 355 mm.
Script: Proficient, thin cursive hand, with a slight slant to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolite 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 1246
- Publications:
-
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. 224-225, no. 1246.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 290, 466.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), pp. 187-188.
D. Bonneau, Le régime administratif de l'eau du Nil dans l'Égypte grecque, romaine et byzantine (Leiden-New York: E. J. Brill 1993), pp. 192-193, and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 142.
C. Drecoll, Die Liturgien im römischen Kaiserreich des 3. und 4. Jh. n. Chr: Untersuchung über Zugang, Inhalt und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der öffentlichen Zwangsdienste in Ägypten und anderen Provinzen (Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag 1997), pp. 24, 319, and passim.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 197).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)