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Papyrus 1335
- Record Id:
- 040-003666224
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103248841.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465202.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1335
- Title:
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Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Corn-Tax (P.Lond. IV 1335, TM 19793)
- Scope & Content:
- Order from the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, to collect 2,000 drachmas for the corn-tax (embole); in case the corn is not forthcoming, a rate of 13 artabas of clean wheat per solidus with transport charge would have to be paid; sent with Papyrus 1436 (P.Lond. IV 1407); with docket on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003666224 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1335 : Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Corn-Tax (P.Lond. IV 1335, TM 19793) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1659]/040-003666224
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Medium-brown papyrus with detached fragment, lighter in colour, found separately; lacking the right-hand side; overall well preserved; with writing on both sides. The front bears 15 lines running against the fibres; the detached fragment at the top contains two lines; few letters are lost at the end. Lines are fairly spaced. On the back, there is one line running along the fibres written on the detached fragment the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465202.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0709
- End Date:
- 0709
- Date Range:
- 25 July 709
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Upper fragment: 59 x 174 mm; lower fragment: 372 x 180 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 500 x 230 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 Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. IV 1335
- 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. 5-6, no. 1335.
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 (p. 271).
H. I. Bell, ‘The Arabic Bilingual Entagion’, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 89 (1945), pp. 531-542 (pp. 531-532).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 45.
H. Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondence de Kurra ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160 (p. 142).
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. 187).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 106.
Ph. Mayerson, ‘ϲῖτοϲ/πυρόϲ in Egypt as Deliberate Mixtures of Wheat with Barley’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 42 (2005), pp. 51-62 (pp. 59-60, n. 15).
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).
P. M. Sijpesteijn, Shaping a Muslim state: the world of a mid-eighth-century Egyptian official (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013), pp. 89-90.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)