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Papyrus 1343
- Record Id:
- 040-003666285
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103287533.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465229.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1343
- Title:
- Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius (P.Lond. IV 1346, TM 19804)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, urging him to dispatch materials and supplies for the ships at Klysma, in the Eastern Desert, and provisions for the sailors before the water of the canal of Trajan subsides. The governor had already written about this, but Basilius had neglected the order. Should he fail to send the supplies, he will have to carry them by road at his own expenses; with one line in Arabic at the top, original clay seal bearing presumably a wolf facing to the right and a star. On the back there is the address, the date, the courier and the summary; one line is written the other way up.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003666285 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1343 : Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius (P.Lond. IV 1346, TM 19804) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1679]/040-003666285
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus roll, written across the fibres having been rotated 90 degrees (transversa charta), complete and overall well preserved, with some damage at the top and along the folds; written on both sides. On the front, there are 20 lines; margins are extant. The original clay seal is still attached at the bottom. The back bears two lines running along the fibres, one of which is written the other way up in relation to the other. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465229.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Arabic
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Arabic
Greek - Start Date:
- 0710
- End Date:
- 0710
- Date Range:
- 3 January 710
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus, Clay.
Dimensions: 446 x 207 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 490 x 255 mm.
Script: Greek: Large, thin, sloping cursive hand. One line in Arabic at the top.
- 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 1346
- 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. 19-20, no. 1346, with pl. 96.
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. 277).
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann 1934), pp. 592-595, no. 432.
A. Grohmann, ‘Aperçu de papyrologie arabe’, Etudes de papyrologie I (1932), pp. 23–95 (p. 42).
H. Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondence de Kurra ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160 (p. 145, and passim; with pl. 6).
P. M. Sijpesteijn, ‘Travel and Trade on the River’, in P. M. Sijpesteijn, L. Sundelin (eds.), Papyrology and the History of Early Islamic Egypt (Leiden: E. J. Brill), pp. 115-152 (p. 117).
P. M. Sijpesteijn, Shaping a Muslim State. The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013), p. 295.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)