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Papyrus 1340
- Record Id:
- 040-003666284
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103287191.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465225.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1340
- Title:
- Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1342, TM 19800)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragmentary order of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, to provide workmen for the building of a palace, most likely the one in Damascus. 'Abd ar-Raḥmân b. Salmân is in charge of the works.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003666284 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1340 : Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1342, TM 19800) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1678]/040-003666284
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragment of a medium-dark brown papyrus, broken off at the top and left; with insect-holes in places; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears 10 lines lacking the beginnings, with traces of another line at the top; the lower margin survives, the right is irregular and minimal. Horizontal folds are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465225.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0709
- End Date:
- 0709
- Date Range:
- 6 November 709
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 272 x 130 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 325 x 185 mm.
Script: Large, thin, sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
-
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 1342
- 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. 13-14, no. 1342.
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. 274).
H. Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondence de Kurra ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160 (p. 145).
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 (pp. 178-179).
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)