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Papyrus 1547
- Record Id:
- 040-003679109
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105488698.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465677.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1547
- Title:
- Agreement concerning Taxes (P.Lond. V 1661, TM 19678)
- Scope & Content:
- Agreement addressed to the pagarchs Flavius Iulianus and Menas, through the headmen (protokometai) Flavius Dioscorus and Flavius Apollos, from Aurelius Pesalous, son of Isidorus and Maria, and Aurelius Menas, son of Hermauos and Tsone, tax-collectors (apaitetai) of Aphrodito. The tax-collectors acknowledge a debt of twelve solidi, which shall be collected and paid over by them. With their subscription (written by someone else as they are illiterate), subscriptions of two witnesses and of the notary at the end, and docket on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003679109 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1547 : Agreement concerning Taxes (P.Lond. V 1661, TM 19678) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1774]/040-003679109
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, complete; with some surface damage and abrasion in places; written on both sides. On the front, there are 29 lines written along the fibres, complete; all margins are extant. A crease is visible from top to bottom towards the right, which the scribe tended to avoid in writing. On the back, two lines run along the fibres at the top. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465677.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0553
- End Date:
- 0553
- Date Range:
- 24 July 553
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 260 x 233 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 315 x 280 mm.
Script: Sloping cursive hand, laterally compressed; different hands for the subscriptions from line 24 to the end. Notary: Pilatus. Verso: Upright, irregular cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Aphrodito, 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 1661
- 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. 24-27, no. 1661.
J. M. Diethart, K. A. Worp, Notarsunterschriften im byzantinischen Ägypten (Byz. Not.) (Wien: Hollinek 1986), p. 31, no. 16.1.8,
A. H. M. Jones, J. R. Martindale, J. Morris, The prosopography of the later Roman Empire. Vol. III (Cambridge: University Press 1992), p. 875.
R. Mazza, ‘Ricerche sul pagarca nell'Egitto tardoantico e bizantino’, Aegyptus 75 (1995), pp. 169-242 (pp. 192, 218, and passim).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 146.
J. Banaji, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014), p. 162.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)