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Papyrus 1334
- Record Id:
- 040-003666222
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103248318.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465190.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1334
- Title:
- Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1334, TM 20489)
- Scope & Content:
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The governor Qurrah ben Sharik orders the requisition of a sawyer for a six-month period for the construction of the mosque of Damascus; the docket on the back is lost. P.Ross.Georg. IV 3 preserves the left-hand portion of the document.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003666222 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1334 : Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1334, TM 20489) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1658]/040-003666222
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Right-hand portion of a papyrus, broken off at the top too, with a detached fragment; the left-hand portion of the papyrus is now in St Petersburg, published as P.Ross.Georg. IV 3; originally written on both sides, but the text on the back is lost, and survives only in P.Ross.Georg. IV 3. The front bears portions of 16 lines; the detached fragment preserves few letters from one line. Lines are fairly spaced; the lower margin survives, and no blank 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_100147465190.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0709
- End Date:
- 0709
- Date Range:
- 11 February 709
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 468 x 140 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 525 x 190 mm.
Script: Thin, sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1200-1520 from Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. IV 1334
- 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. 3-4, no. 1334.
H. I. Bell, ‘Translations of the Greek Aphrodito Papyri in the British Museum’, Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 2 (1911), pp. 269-283 (pp. 270-271).
Papyri russischer und georgischer Sammlungen (P.Ross.Georg.) IV. Die Kome-Aphrodito Papyri der Sammlung Lichačov (Tiflis: Univ.-Lithographie 1927), no. 3.
H. Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondence de Kurra ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160 (p. 142, no. 3).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 121.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 292.
F. Morelli, ‘Legname palazzo e moschee. P.Vindob. G 31 e il contributo dell’Egitto alla prima architettura islamica’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 13 (1998), pp. 165-190 (p. 174).
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. 197).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)