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Papyrus 1864
- Record Id:
- 040-003534645
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101134188.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466634.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1864
- Title:
- Order to Pay and Account (SB XX 14462, TM 14884, 14244)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (TM 14884): Order of Alypius to Heroninus, estate manager, to deliver a quantity of vinegar to Palas, estate manager of Philoteris; with Palas’ acknowledgment of receipt. The beginning of the text is contained in P.Flor. II 164. Dated to 249-268.
Verso (TM 14244): Account of wine by Heronas, continuation of SB VI 9472 (verso of P.Flor. II 164); dated to August September 269 (?); unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003534645 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1864 : Order to Pay and Account (SB XX 14462, TM 14884, 14244) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1506]/040-003534645
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet of light colour, broken off at the top and bottom, lacking fibres in places and displaying other surface damage; written on both sides. On the front, there are 10 lines running along the fibres, the first and last being mutilated. Blank space separates lines 9 and 10. The left margins survives, and no margin was left to the right. The back bears portions of 21 lines, abraded, written across the fibres in the left-hand side of the sheet. One word is written along the fibres in the upper right corner. The upper portion of the sheet is a fragment housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, and published as P.Flor. II 164. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0249
- End Date:
- 0269
- Date Range:
- 249-269
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 145 x 90 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 140 mm.
Script: Recto: Three hands, thin and rapid cursive. Hands of Philippus in lines 1-3 and 10 (and in P.Flor. II 164); hand of Alypius in lines 4-5; hand of Palas in lines 6-9. Verso: Rough, small and thick upright cursive hand of Heronas.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Taken from the rejected fragments of the lot numbered 1200-1520, purchased from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903, and accessioned with Papyrus 1865 in January 1911.
- Former External References:
- SB XX 14462
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum, 1969).
Recto
Papiri greco-egizi. Papiri Fiorentini (P.Flor.) II. Papiri letterari ed epistolari (Milano: Ulrico Hoepli 1911), p. 250
G. M. Parássoglou, ‘Nineteen Papyri from the British Library’, Hellenika 37 (1986), pp. 23-45 (pp. 41, 43, no. 17).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1997), p. 725, no. 14462.
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), p. 61, n. 34; p.258, n. 67; pp. 412, 422.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 229.
P. M. Pinto, ‘Per Comparetti papirologo: la corrispondenza con H.I. Bell, in M. Capasso (ed.), Sulle orme degli Antichi. Scritti di filologia e di storia della tradizione classica offerti a Salvatore Cerasuolo (Lecce-Brescia: PensaMultimedia 2016), pp. 655-667 (p. 659, 665).
Verso
G. M. Parássoglou, ‘Nineteen Papyri from the British Library’, Hellenika 37 (1986), pp. 23-45 (p. 41, verso descr.).
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, 422.
P. M. Pinto, ‘Per Comparetti papirologo: la corrispondenza con H.I. Bell, in M. Capasso (ed.), Sulle orme degli Antichi. Scritti di filologia e di storia della tradizione classica offerti a Salvatore Cerasuolo (Lecce-Brescia: PensaMultimedia 2016), pp. 655-667 (p. 659, 665).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alypius, ducenarius and landowner, general manager of Appianus estate in the Arsinoite nome, 249-270
Heronas, 3rd century
Heroninus, estate manager, of Theadelpheia, Arsinoite nome, Egypt, ca. 199-275
Palas, 3rd century
Philippus, 3rd century - Places:
- Theadelpheia (Batn el-Harit), meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Related Material:
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The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Heroninus (TM Arch ID 103) and is part of the dossier of the Appianus estate.
Another fragment of the same papyrus is P.Flor. II 164.