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Papyrus 1393
- Record Id:
- 040-003666197
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103238849.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465536.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1393
- Title:
- Official Letter of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Tax Arrears (P.Lond. IV 1396, TM 20498)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragment of a letter of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, concerning arrears of taxes due from his administrative district. A list of amounts was appended, but is no longer preserved. The back bears the address, the date, the courier’s name and the summary. P.Ross.Georg. IV 14 contains the rest of the letter.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003666197 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1393 : Official Letter of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Tax Arrears (P.Lond. IV 1396, TM 20498) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1652]/040-003666197
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Left-hand portion of a medium-brown papyrus, broken off at bottom; the right hand portion is a papyrus at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, inventoried as 13341 f, published as P.Ross.Georg. IV 14. Writing runs on both sides. On the front, there are the beginnings of 7 lines written against the fibres; the ends of the lines are preserved in P.Ross.Georg. IV 14, which also has one line in Arabic. On the back, there are two lines running along the fibres, written upside down in relation to eah other. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465536.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0709
- End Date:
- 0709
- Date Range:
- c. 709
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 180 x 142 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 195 mm.
Script: Large, thin sloping cursive hand; minuscule in l. 1.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1200-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. IV 1396
- 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. 445.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum IV. The Aphrodito Papyri (London: British Museum 1910), p. 69, no. 1396.
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 (p. 382).
Die Kome-Aphrodito: Papyri der Sammlung Lichačov (P.Ross.Georg. IV) (Tiflis: Univ.-Lithographie 1927), no. 14.
H. Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondence de Kurra ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 122.
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)