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Papyrus 1891
- Record Id:
- 040-003678323
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105054356.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466690.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1891
- Title:
- Letter from the Nomarch concerning a Petition (P.Fam.Tebt. 43 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 43, SB I 5343, TM 15173)
- Scope & Content:
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Documents concerning a dispute between Lysimachus alias Didymus, son of Heraclides, and Serenus, guardian of the heirs of Dius, son of Chaeremon, who had died without paying back a loan of 240 drachmas bearing interest.
Column 1: Letter of Artemidorus, nomarch of Antinoopolis, to Damarion, strategus of the divisions of Themistes and Polemon in the Arsinoite nome, enclosing the copy of the petition sent to him by Lysimachus alias Didymus, son of Heraclides, so that Damarion may send up Serenus for trial. With address on the back.
Column 2: Petition to Artemidorus from Lysimachus alias Didymus, pasted onto the letter of Artemidorus to Damarion, enclosing another petition he had sent to the epistrategus Vettius Turbo explaining the problem and asking that Serenus be summoned. With subscriptions at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003678323 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1891 : Letter from the Nomarch concerning a Petition (P.Fam.Tebt. 43 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 43, SB I 5343, TM 15173) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1753]/040-003678323
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- One papyrus made of two sheets of varying height pasted together, medium-dark brown; the left sheet is broken off at the top and lacks the lower left corner; the right sheet is complete and well preserved. Few insect-holes are visible in places. The writing is on both sides along the fibres. On the front there are two columns of 18 lines and 39 lines respectively; the first column is damaged in places; the second is complete. A sheet-join runs at 170 mm from the left-hand edge. The back hosts one line lacking the end, written at the top on the back of what is the left-hand sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466690.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0182
- End Date:
- 0182
- Date Range:
- 26 July 182
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 307 x 314 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 345 x 360 mm.
Script: Column 1: Skilled, graceful hand, thin and sloping to the right; lines 13-14: Clumsy and irregular hand; line 14-end: thin and rapid sloping cursive for the date. Column 2: Thin, somewhat regular hand, with a slant to the right, more cursive in places; different hand for the subscription at the end.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Antinoopolis Egypt.
Provenance: Tebtynis, meris of Polemon, Arsinoite nome, Egypt (?). Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1873-2016 from Ali Abd-el-Haj on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- P.Fam.Tebt. 43
Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 43
SB I 5343 - 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.
Ρ. Jouguet, in E. Kühn (ed.), Antinoopolis: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Hellenismus im römischen Ägypten: Gründung und Verfassung (Göttingen: W.F. Kaestner 1913), p. 143.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner 1915), no. 5343.
B. A. van Groningen, A Family Archive from Tebtunis (Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1950), pp. 145-149, no. 44.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 113.
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2011), p. 342.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)