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Papyrus 2226
- Record Id:
- 040-003616331
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102158464.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467401.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2226
- Title:
- Official Correspondence on a Dispute over Inheritance (SB XX 14587, TM 23760)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of Valerius Heron alias Sarapion, curator (logistes) of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to his assistant Patermouthios, enclosing the copy of a petition and instructing him to inform the persons accused therein. The petition had been sent to him by Aurelia Thaesis, daughter of Thonis and Taammonion, acting with her husband as a guardian, concerning a dispute over inheritance between Thaesis and her sister and half-brother. Thaesis enclosed the copy of the petition she had sent to the prefect Aelius Hyginus and the prefect’s subscription, who delegated the matter to the logistes.
Lines 1-7: Letter of Valerius Heron alias Sarapion to his assistant.
Lines 7-12: Petition of Aurelia Thaesis to Valerius Heron alias Sarapion.
Lines 13-21: Petition of Aurelia Thaesis to the prefect Aelius Hyginus.
Lines 22-24: Copy of the prefect’s subscription.
Lines 25-30: Subscription of Thaesis, written by her husband.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003616331 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2226 : Official Correspondence on a Dispute over Inheritance (SB XX 14587, TM 23760) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1853]/040-003616331
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, with severe surface damage throughout; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears 30 lines, damaged in places; left and upper margins are extant, the lower margin is damaged; no free space was left on the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467401.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0308
- End Date:
- 0308
- Date Range:
- 30 September 308
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 265 x 343 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 305 x 385 mm.
Script: Three cursive hands: first in lines 1-6, and at the end of line 7 for the signature; second in lines 7-24; third for the subscription from line 25 to end.
- Custodial History:
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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 XX 14587
- 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.
J. Lallemand, L'administration civile de l'Égypte de l'avènement de Dioclétien à la création du diocèse (284-382): contribution à l'étude des rapports entre l'Égypte et l'Empire à la fin du IIIe et au IVe siècle (Bruxelles: Palais des Académies 1964), p. 264.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, K. A. Worp, ‘Three London Papyri’, in M. Capasso et al. (eds.), Miscellanea Papyrologica in occasione del bicentenario dell'edizione della Charta Borgiana. II (Papyrologica Florentina XIX), vol. 2 (Firenze: Gonnelli 1990), pp. 507-520 (pp. 512-517, no. 3, with pl. xlix).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1997), no. 14587.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)