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Papyrus 1236
- Record Id:
- 040-003616324
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102155156.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464699.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1236
- Title:
- List of Tax Payments (SB XX 14306, P.Lond. III 1236 ro. descr., TM 14859), and Private Letter (P.Flor. II 233*, P.Lond. III 1236 vo. descr., TM 11113)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (SB XX 14306, TM 14859): Record of tax payments levied on real estates, dated to 137−142.
Verso (P.Flor. II 233*, TM 11113): Letter from Sarapammon to Heroninus, dated to 22 July 264, with the request to supply fodder for the oxen and to pay the ox-driver and a carpenter.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003616324 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1236 : List of Tax Payments (SB XX 14306, P.Lond. III 1236 ro. descr., TM 14859), and Private Letter (P.Flor. II 233*, P.Lond. III 1236… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1580]/040-003616324
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragment of a papyrus roll, pale-brown, with darker patches; damaged by holes throughout; written on both sides. The front bears the ends of 16 lines written along the fibres from a column, broken off at the top too. Trace of another column on the right is visible opposite line 5, after 40 mm. The roll was cut off to host the text on the back, which bears 11 lines running across the fibres. The lower margin is ample. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464699.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0137
- End Date:
- 0264
- Date Range:
- 137-264
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 279 x 112 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 330 x 165 mm.
Script: Recto: Thin, regular and neat upright cursive hand. Verso: Thin, sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite 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.Flor. II 233*
P.Lond. III 1236 ro. descr.
P.Lond. III 1236 vo. descr.
SB XX 14306 - 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.
Recto
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. lxvii, no. 1236 ro. descr.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Two London Papyri’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 28 (1991), pp. 59-63 (pp. 61-63).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1997), p. 178, no. 14306.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 227.
Verso
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. lxvii, no. 1236 vo. descr.
Papiri greco-egizii, Papiri Fiorentini II. Papiri letterari ed epistolari (Milano: Hoepli 1911), pp. 249 – 250, no. 233*, p. 206, 237*.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 155.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘P. Flor. II 233*: a note’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 78 (1989), p. 98.
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. 413.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 85.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Heroninus, estate manager, of Theadelpheia, Arsinoite nome, Egypt, ca. 199-275
Sarapammon, 3rd century - Places:
- Theadelpheia (Batn el-Harit), meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
- Related Material:
- The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Heroninus (TM Arch ID 103).