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Papyrus 1549
- Record Id:
- 040-003534655
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101136748.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465684.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1549
- Title:
- Lease of Land (P.Lond. V 1686, TM 19703)
- Scope & Content:
- Sale of three aruras of waterless land from Dioscorus to the monastery of Zmin, in the Panopolite nome. The monastery is to pay the taxes related to fourteen aruras of arable land owned by Dioscorus near Phthla. With subscriptions of Dioscorus, who wrote the document, and of a witness.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003534655 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1549 : Lease of Land (P.Lond. V 1686, TM 19703) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1516]/040-003534655
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, darkened in places, almost complete, lacking the lower right-hand corner and with breaks and holes, mostly located along the horizontal folds at the bottom; slightly abraded in places; written on one side, the back being blank. There are 47 lines across the fibres. Margins survive: the upper is irregularly cut; the side margins display holes; the lower is lost on the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465684.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0565
- End Date:
- 0565
- Date Range:
- 7 November 565
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 454 x 303 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 510 x 355 mm.
Script: Proficient cursive hand of Dioscorus; different hand for the subscription in lines 46-47.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1686
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 81-84, no. 1686.
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, ‘Chronological Notes on Byzantine Documents (V)’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 17 (1980), pp. 19-25 (p. 21).
J. Banaji, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007), p. 196.
J. L. Fournet (ed.), Les archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodité cent ans après leur découverte: histoire et culture dans l'Egypte byzantine: actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 8-10 décembre 2005 (Paris: De Boccard 2008), pp. 97, 199, 355, with pl. III.
M. Mirković, ‘Count Ammonios and Paying Taxes in the Name of Somebody Else in the Cadastre from Aphrodito’, in T. Gagos, A. Hyatt (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, July 29-August 4, 2007 (Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, The University of Michigan Library 2010), pp. 565-572 (p. 571).
M. Mirković, ‘Taxes and People: Transactions and Misuses in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Egypt’, in T. Derda, A. Łajtar, and J. Urbanik (eds), Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology. Warsaw, 29 July - 3 August 2013(Journal of Juristic Papyrology suppl. 28) (Warsaw: Faculty of Law and Administration, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlag 2016), pp. 1775-1786 (p. 1781).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)