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Papyrus 1247
- Record Id:
- 040-003524904
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101103364.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464765.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1247
- Title:
- Nomination of Water-Guards (P.Lond. III 1247, TM 22860)
- Scope & Content:
- Two copies of a return addressed to Flavius Olympiodorus alias Asyncritius and Achilleus, superintendents of the dykes, from the village heads (komarchai) Aurelius Tyrannus and Aurelius Pecysis, and other individuals of Sentryphis, listing individuals nominated for the water-control (hydrophylakia); written by Aurelius Horion.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003524904 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1247 : Nomination of Water-Guards (P.Lond. III 1247, TM 22860) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1478]/040-003524904
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Two papyrus sheets, pale-brown, written on one side, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
Left papyrus (A): Complete but damaged by insect holes and abrasion throughout; one column with 29 lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant, the right being minimal.
Right papyrus (B): Mutilated, with holes, abrasion and other surface damage throughout; made of two sheets, with the left-hand one displaying vertical fibres; on this sheet, the writing is against the fibres. There are 28 incomplete lines, with an interlinear addition. Upper, lower and right margins are extant, while the left is damaged.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464765.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0345
- End Date:
- 0345
- Date Range:
- 25 August 345
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 250 x 151; B: 250 x 150 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 300 x 355 mm.
Script: Rather thick cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Sentryphis, 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 1247
- 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. 225-226, no. 1247, with pl. 71.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 290.
D. Bonneau, Le régime administratif de l'eau du Nil dans l'Égypte grecque, romaine et byzantine (Leiden-New York: E. J. Brill 1993), p. 156, and passim.
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, 319-320.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 197).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 125.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)