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Papyrus 1746
- Record Id:
- 040-003679106
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105488326.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466143.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1746
- Title:
- Contract for the Collection of Taxes (P.Lond. V 1660, TM 19677)
- Scope & Content:
- Contract concerning the collection of taxes, whereby the party giving the undertaking agrees to act as a representative for the collection and disposition of various taxes for the village of Phthla in the Antaiopolite nome, securing the other party against all claims from the two pagarchs Iulianus and Patricia as well as against any legal actions, and regularly reporting to the other party. Traces of another text are visible on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003679106 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1746 : Contract for the Collection of Taxes (P.Lond. V 1660, TM 19677) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1773]/040-003679106
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Dark-brown papyrus roll, broken off at the top, with holes and breaks along the horizontal folds; a stain is visible on the right (front); written on both sides. The front bears one column of 48 lines written across the fibres, lacking the top. Side and lower margins are extant. On the back, there are traces of one column written across the fibres on the left-hand side. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466143.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0553
- End Date:
- 0553
- Date Range:
- c. 553
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 798 x 292 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 850 x 345 mm.
Script: Recto: Thin, sloping cursive hand. Verso: Rapid and untidy cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Antaiopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, 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 1660
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.
H. I. Bell, ‘Notes from Papyri in the British Museum’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 6 (1920), pp. 100-113 (pp. 111-112).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 21-24, no. 1660.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 97.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘The Title πατὴρ (τῆς) πόλεως and the Papyri’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 2 (1987), pp. 171-174 (p. 173, n. 15).
A. H. M. Jones, J. R. Martindale, J. Morris, The prosopography of the later Roman Empire. Vol. III (Cambridge: University Press 1992), pp. 875, 970.
R. Mazza, ‘Ricerche sul pagarca nell'Egitto tardoantico e bizantino’, Aegyptus 75 (1995), pp. 169-242 (pp. 192, 218, and passim).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)