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Papyrus 1558
- Record Id:
- 040-003653508
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103028529.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465701.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1558
- Title:
- Official Letter of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Wages for Sailors (P.Lond. IV 1374, TM 19830)
- Scope & Content:
-
Letter of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, instructing him to collect and dispatch seven solidi as wages for seven sailors from his administrative district who had gone to Syria for the raiding expedition (cursus) and had stayed there. The original clay seal features a wolf facing right and a star. The back bears the address, date, name of the courier and summary.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003653508 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1558 : Official Letter of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Wages for Sailors (P.Lond. IV 1374, TM 19830) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1633]/040-003653508
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus roll, medium-dark brown, lacking the upper right-hand corner; with holes and minor surface damage along the folds; written on both sides. The front bears 13 lines written across the fibres and fairly spaced; lines 1-7 lack the ends. Upper, left and lower margins are extant; the right, which is minimal and irregular, survives from line 8. At the bottom the original clay seal survives. On the back, two faded lines run along the fibres at the top, written upside down in relation to each other. A small papyrus strip was glued diagonally on the right-hand side. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465701.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0710
- End Date:
- 0710
- Date Range:
- 1 May 710
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus; Clay.
Dimensions: 317 x 208 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 385 x 255 mm.
Script: Large, thin, sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. IV 1374
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum IV. The Aphrodito Papyri (London: British Museum 1910), pp. 47-48, no. 1374.
H. I. Bell, ‘Translations of the Greek Aphrodito Papyri in the British Museum (Continued)’, Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 2 (1911), pp. 372-384 (pp. 375-376).
H. Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondence de Kurra ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160 (p. 150).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 64.
T. S. Richter, ‘Language Choice in the Qurra Dossier’, A. Papaconstantinou (ed.), The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate 2010), pp. 189-220 (p. 198).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)