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Papyrus 1258
- Record Id:
- 040-003524908
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101103457.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464814.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1258
- Title:
- List of Arrears (SB XVIII 13148, P.Lond. III 1258 descr., TM 32979)
- Scope & Content:
- List of arrears in grain owed by various individuals of an unnamed village, presumably located in the Hermopolite nome, with the total of arrears amounting to 380 artabas.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003524908 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1258 : List of Arrears (SB XVIII 13148, P.Lond. III 1258 descr., TM 32979) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1482]/040-003524908
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet of fair quality, complete, with some holes and surface damage in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front there are two columns: the first has 30 lines, and the second 22 lines. Margins are extant and minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464814.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0300
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 255 x 215 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 315 x 270 mm.
Script: Fluent and neat cursive hand, thin and sloping to the right. Lines tend to incline upwards.
- Custodial History:
-
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 1258 descr.
SB XVIII 13148 - 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), p. lxix, no. 1258 descr.
G. M. Parássoglou, ‘Four London Documents’, Aegyptus 67 (1987), pp. 79-88 (pp. 84-86, no. 3).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XVIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1993), p., no. 13148.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Hermopolite nome, 15th Upper Egyptian nome, Egypt