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Papyrus 1368
- Record Id:
- 040-003666307
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103305038.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465415.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1368
- Title:
- Official Letter of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Corn-Tax (P.Lond. IV 1370, TM 20496)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, urging him to send 1300 artabas of wheat for the corn-tax (embole), which were in arrears. Should he fail to do so, there would be consequences for him and his people. The back bears the address, the date, the name of the courier and the summary. P.Ross.Georg. IV 12 preserves the first two lines.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003666307 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1368 : Official Letter of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Corn-Tax (P.Lond. IV 1370, TM 20496) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1690]/040-003666307
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus roll, mutilated at the top, complete at the bottom, right and left; damaged by holes throughout; a fragment from the top of the roll is now at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, inventoried as 13339 f, and published as P.Ross.Georg. IV 12. Writing runs on both sides. The front bears 18 lines written across the fibres; portions of the first two lines are preserved in the fragment now at the Hermitage Museum. Line 1 is in Arabic. Margins are minimal. On the back, there are three lines written along the fibres, one of which is in the reverse direction in relation to the other two. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame with an opening to show the text on the back.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465415.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Arabic
Greek - Start Date:
- 0710
- End Date:
- 0710
- Date Range:
- 3 November 710
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 423 x 215 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 480 x 270 mm.
Script: Greek: Thin, sloping cursive hand; line 1 in Arabic.
- Custodial History:
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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 1370
- 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), p. 45, no. 1370.
H. I. Bell, ‘Translations of the Greek Aphrodito Papyri in the British Museum (Continued)’, Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 2 (1911), pp. 372-384 (p. 375).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 301.
Die Kome-Aphrodito: Papyri der Sammlung Lichačov (P.Ross.Georg. IV) (Tiflis: Univ.-Lithographie 1927), no. 12.
H. Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondence de Kurra ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160 (p. 149).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 122.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXII (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1995), no. 4351.3 n.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 105.
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)