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Papyrus 2838
- Record Id:
- 040-003652587
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102456953.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468437.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2838
- Title:
- Tax Receipts (SB XX 15015, TM 23846)
- Scope & Content:
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Two receipts acknowledging payments made by Apollos, son of Dioscorus, through Phoebammon and Menas, on account of the village taxes for the village of Phthla, issued by the pagarch Iulianus through the assistant Pninnos.
Lines 1-4: First receipt.
Line 5-end: Second receipt.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Greek Papyri
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003652587 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2838 : Tax Receipts (SB XX 15015, TM 23846) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1598]/040-003652587
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus slip, damaged by insect holes and abrasion; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. There are portions of 9 lines. Margins survive, the upper and left measuring c. 10 mm, and the lower and right being minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468437.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0550
- End Date:
- 0550
- Date Range:
- 29 August 550
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 95 x 303; housed in a glass frame measuring 155 x 360 mm.
Script: Proficient, upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Phthla, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2784-2849 as share from a joint purchase arranged with the University of Michigan, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, and Wilfred Merton (b. 1888, d. 1957) from various dealers in November and December 1926, formally acquired in October 1927. Papyri 2823-2849 were purchased from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948).
- Former External References:
- SB XX 15015
- Publications:
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R. Pintaudi, P. J. Sijpesteijn, 'Papiri tardo-bizantini conservati alla British Library', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 78 (1989), pp. 103-115 (pp. 106-107, no. 2).
R. Mazza, ‘Ricerche sul pagarca nell'Egitto tardoantico e bizantino’, Aegyptus 75 (1995), pp. 169-242 (p. 227).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1997), no. 15015.
J.-L. Fournet, 'Le système des intermédiaires dans les reçus fiscaux byzantins et ses implications chronologiques sur le dossier de Dioscore d'Aphrodité', Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 46 (2000), pp. 233-247 (pp. 234-235, 239).
J.-L. Fournet, C. Magdelaine (eds.), 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), p. 332.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 229.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)