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Papyrus 1373
- Record Id:
- 040-003666205
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103241743.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465450.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1373
- Title:
- Official Letter of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Requisitioned Workers (P.Lond. IV 1401, TM 19849)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, asking him to dispatch four workers from his administrative district, needed for various services. A list with the number of men needed and their wage follows. The back bears the address, the date, the name of the courier and the summary.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003666205 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1373 : Official Letter of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Requisitioned Workers (P.Lond. IV 1401, TM 19849) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1654]/040-003666205
- 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, darker in places; complete at the top, bottom and left; with some damage along two horizontal folds; zig-zag break on the right; written on both sides. On the front, there are 14 lines written across the fibres and lacking the ends. Lower, right and upper margins are extant. On the back, there are two lines written along the fibres upside down in relation to each other. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame with an opening to show the text on the back.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465450.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0709
- End Date:
- 0714
- Date Range:
- 709-714
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 377 x 163 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 435 x 215 mm.
Script: Thin, sloping cursive hand.
- 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 1401
- 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), pp. 72-73, no. 1401.
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. 383).
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 234.
H. Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondence de Kurra ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160.
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)