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Papyrus 1385
- Record Id:
- 040-003666311
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103308445.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465471.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1385
- Title:
- Official Letter of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Freight Charges (SB XX 15100, P.Lond. IV 1387, TM 23879)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, with the order to collect and dispatch seven solidi from his administrative district for the freight of the ships that had conveyed requisitions. The back bears the address, the date, the name of the courier and the summary. P.Ross.Georg. IV 10 and P.Berol. inv. 25039 preserve further portions of the letter.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003666311 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1385 : Official Letter of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius on Freight Charges (SB XX 15100, P.Lond. IV 1387, TM 23879) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1692]/040-003666311
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Central portion of a medium-dark brown papyrus roll; written on both sides. The front bears the mid portions of 14 lines running against the fibres; on the back, there are two lines written along the fibres upside down in relation to each other. The left-hand portion of the same papyrus is now at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, inventoried as 13337 f and published as P.Ross.Georg. IV 10; the right-hand portion, from line 6 on, is now in Berlin (P. 25039). The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame, with a small opening for the text on the back.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465471.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0710
- End Date:
- 0710
- Date Range:
- 1 January 710
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 386 x 67 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 435 x 115 mm.
Script: Thin, sloping cursive hand; minuscule in line 1.
- 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 1387
SB XX 15100 - 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. 60-61, no. 1387.
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. 381).
Die Kome-Aphrodito Papyri der Sammlung Lichačov (P.Ross.Georg. IV) (Tiflis: Univ.-Lithographie 1927), no. 10.
H. Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondence de Kurra ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160 (pp. 138-139).
R. Pintaudi, P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Testi dell’ VIII sec. d.C. provenienti da Aphrodito’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 85 (1991), pp. 279–300 (pp. 296-297, no. 2, pl. X).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1997), no. 15100.
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. 198).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)