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Papyrus 1709
- Record Id:
- 040-003678650
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105464423.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466064.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1709
- Title:
- Nominations to Liturgies (P.Lond. V 1648, TM 19672)
- Scope & Content:
- Return by the eirenarch (local peace-keeping official) of the village Temenkyrkis Poimenon in the Hermopolite nome to the riparii (police officials) of the nome, nominating liturgical officials in charge of dikes and canals. The names of the nominees follow.
Papyrus 1609A (P.Lond. V 1822) is a duplicate.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003678650 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1709 : Nominations to Liturgies (P.Lond. V 1648, TM 19672) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1769]/040-003678650
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, riddled with insect-holes and abraded in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 24 lines, most of which are damaged at the ends. Side and upper margins are extant. A sheet-join runs from top to bottom to the right of the centre. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466064.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-

- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0373
- End Date:
- 0373
- Date Range:
- January-April 373
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 179 x 165 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 220 mm.
Script: Neat and regular upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1865, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1648
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 3-6, no. 1648.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 65.
C. Drecoll, Die Liturgien im römischen Kaiserreich des 3. und 4. Jh. n. Chr: Untersuchung über Zugang, Inhalt und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der öffentlichen Zwangsdienste in Ägypten und anderen Provinzen (Stuttgart: F. Steiner 1997), pp. 129, 164, and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 106.
B. E. Nielsen, ‘A Catalog of Duplicate Papyri’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp. 187-214 (p. 213).
S. Torallas Tovar, ‘Los riparii en los papiros del Egipto tardoantiguo’, Aquila legionis: cuadernos de estudios sobre el Ejército Romano 1 (2001), pp. 123-152 (pp. 123-124, 127).
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt2 (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2004), p. 20.
C. Homoth-Kuhs, Phylakes und Phylakon-Steuer im griechisch-römischen Ägypten: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des antiken Sicherheitswesens (München: Saur 2005), pp. 89, 94, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Hermopolite nome, 15th Upper Egyptian nome, Egypt
- Related Material:
-
Papyrus 1609A (P.Lond. V 1822) is a duplicate.