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Papyrus 1743
- Record Id:
- 040-003679163
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105498735.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466132.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1743
- Title:
- Conclusion of a Petition (P.Lond. V 1675, TM 19694)
- Scope & Content:
- Conclusion of a petition to the dux of the Thebaid, the details being lost; it may be the end of Papyrus 1727 (P.Lond. V 1674), a petition written by the inhabitants of Aphrodito against the misdeeds of the pagarchs.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003679163 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1743 : Conclusion of a Petition (P.Lond. V 1675, TM 19694) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1780]/040-003679163
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Lower portion of a papyrus sheet, darker in places and with surface damage; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears 8 lines from the foot of a column. The side margins are minimal, the lower is ample. Folding lines are still visible. A sheet-join runs along the width of the papyrus at the beginning of the lower margin. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466132.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0566
- End Date:
- 0573
- Date Range:
- 566-573
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 236 x 315 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 290 x 365 mm.
Script: Sloping cursive hand of Dioscorus.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Antinoopolis, 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 1675
- 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), p. 64, no. 1675.
J.-L. Fournet, ‘Liste des papyrus édités de l’Aphrodité byzantine’, in Les archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodité cent ans après leur découverte - histoire et culture dans l'Égypte byzantine: actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 8-10 décembre 2005 (Paris: de Boccard 2008), pp. 307-343 (p. 330).
J.-L. Fournet, J. Gascou, ‘Liste des pétitions sur papyrus des Ve-VIIe siècles’, in D. Feissel, J. Gascou (eds.), La pétition à Byzance (Paris: De Boccard 2004), pp. 141-196 (p. 169, no. 58).
J.-L. Fournet, ‘Anatomie d’un genre en mutation: la pétition de l’Antiquité tardive’, in A. Nodar, S. Torallas Tovar (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Papyrology, Barcelona 1-6 August 2016 (Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Monserrat, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2019), pp. 571-590 (pp. 586, 588).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Dioscorus of Aphrodito, poet and administrator, 6th century
- Places:
- Antinoopolis, Egypt
Kôm Ishgau, Egypt; the site of Aphrodito - Related Material:
- The papyrus belongs to the ‘Archive of Dioskoros’ (TM Arch ID 72).
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Papyrus 1727