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Papyrus 1939
- Record Id:
- 040-003677734
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100104438809.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466833.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1939
- Title:
- Statement of Tax Revenue (P.Hamb. IV 275, TM 41555)
- Scope & Content:
- List of payments for the crown-tax for year 6, arranged in two columns. The first column records the totals of the payments made by the same individuals as Papyrus 1938, who were holders or former holders of municipal offices or their relatives. The amounts vary from 12 to over 1000 drachmas. The second column, bearing the same heading, may list landowners who did not hold municipal offices and paid the crown-tax.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003677734 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1939 : Statement of Tax Revenue (P.Hamb. IV 275, TM 41555) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1708]/040-003677734
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, with few insect-holes and minor abrasion in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears two columns of 27 and 29 lines respectively, all complete. Margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466833.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0198
- End Date:
- 0198
- Date Range:
- 198
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 230 x 205 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 255 mm.
Script: Thin sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1873-2016 from Ali Abd el Hari on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- P.Hamb. IV 275
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum 1969), p. 475.
S. LR. Wallace, Taxation in Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press 1938), p. 471, n. 17.
Griechische Papyrusurkunden der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek IV (Stuttgart-Leipzig: Teubner 1998), pp. 180-185, 188-191, no. 275, with pl. 34.
G. Messeri, R. Pintaudi, ‘Spigolature VI’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 265-273 (pp. 271-273).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 84.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)