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Papyrus 1336
- Record Id:
- 040-003666227
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103249172.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465210.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1336
- Title:
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Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius (P.Lond. IV 1337, TM 19795)
- Scope & Content:
- Order from the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, to raise and send the salaries of the sailors Qurrah had to recruit for the yearly raiding expedition (cursus Aegypti) as replacements of the sailors that Basilius had failed to send in time; the account of the money required is contained in Papyrus 1446 (P.Lond. IV 1450).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003666227 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1336 : Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius (P.Lond. IV 1337, TM 19795) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1660]/040-003666227
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus of light colour, broken off at the top, with some damage along the horizontal folds and few holes, otherwise well preserved; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears 24 lines, the first of which is fragmentary. Left and lower margins survive, while no free space was left on the right. Two sheet-joins running horizontally are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465210.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0709
- End Date:
- 0709
- Date Range:
- 10 September 709
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 662 x 207 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 720 x 260 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 1337
- 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. 7-8, no. 1337.
H. Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondence de Kurra ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160 (p. 142).
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), p. 176.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)