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Papyrus 891
- Record Id:
- 040-003536774
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101224055.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469483.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 891
- Title:
- Petition to the Chief of Police (SB XX 15182, P.Lond. III 891 descr., TM 14956)
- Scope & Content:
- Petition to Serapion, chief of police (epistates phylakiton), from Chaeremon, son of Horion, a farmer of Euhemeria, concerning damage to his land caused by the grazing of sheep belonging to five men. Chaeremon asks Serapion to write to the chief of the village police (archephodos). An order to summon the men, addressed to the archephodos, is added at the end in a different hand.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003536774 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 891 : Petition to the Chief of Police (SB XX 15182, P.Lond. III 891 descr., TM 14956) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1531]/040-003536774
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Long and narrow papyrus sheet, lacking part of the right-hand side and with insect holes in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame. On the front, there are 22 lines, some of which lack the end. Blank space and paragraphus separate lines 19 and 20. The left margin measure 10-13 mm, the upper 20 mm, the lower 10 mm; no margin was left to the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469483.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0029
- End Date:
- 0031
- Date Range:
- 29-31
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 239 x 70 mm, housed in a glass frame measuring 295 x 120 mm.
Script: Thin cursive hand; different hand in the last two lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Euhemeria, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Euhemeria, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 884-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 891 descr.
SB XX 15182 - 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. 441.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xliii, no. 891 descr.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Petition to the Chief of Police’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 91 (1992), pp. 101-102, with pl. Ib.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1997), pp. , no. 15182.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 234.
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)