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Papyrus 2175
- Record Id:
- 040-003536771
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101224003.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467342.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2175
- Title:
- Petition to the Strategus (SB XXIV 16251, TM 79411)
- Scope & Content:
- Petition to the strategus of the Oxyrhynchite nome from Titus Flavius Eudaemon, town councillor of Alexandria, represented by Aurelius Ammonius, town councillor of Oxyrhynchus, enclosing earlier documents concerning a dispute over property involving his wife. The documents are the copy of a letter (lines 7-14) from the deputy-archidikastes (official with judicial authority) Marcus Aurelius Menelaus to the strategus, and the petition (lines 15-23) of Eudaemon to Menelaus, reporting the ruling of the prefect on the case. Eudaemon now asks the strategus that the keepers of the public archives be informed in order to avoid fraud. With subscription of Eudaemon at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003536771 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2175 : Petition to the Strategus (SB XXIV 16251, TM 79411) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1528]/040-003536771
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Portion of a papyrus sheet, mutilated on the sides, but complete at the top and bottom; with abrasion and insect holes in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are portions of 24 lines, lacking both beginnings and ends. The upper and lower margins measure 51 and 85 mm respectively; three vertical folds are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467342.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0217
- End Date:
- 0217
- Date Range:
- c. 217
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 263 x 113 mm, housed in a glass frame measuring 310 x 160 mm.
Script: Competent, neat, upright hand, with some ligatured sequences of letters; different hand, cursive and slanting to the right, for the subscription in the last two lines.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2103-2238 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in May 1920.
- Former External References:
- SB XXIV 16251
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920 (London: British Museum 1933), p. 373.
H. I. Bell, in Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 7 (1924), pp. 223-224.
G. Bastianini, J. Whitehorne, Strategi and Royal Scribes of Roman Egypt. Chronological list and index, (Firenze: 1987), p. 97.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, K. A. Worp, ‘P.Lond. inv. 2175: A Full Edition’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 110 (1996), pp. 175-182, with pl. vii.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XXIV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2003), no. 16251.
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2011), p. 363 and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)