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Papyrus 1259
- Record Id:
- 040-003687979
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105821372.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469872.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1259
- Title:
- Accounts (P.Lond. III 1259 ro., TM 22864; SB XVI 12827, P.Lond. III 1259 vo. descr., TM 16304)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Lond. III 1259 ro., TM 22864): Account of daily expenses over various months, recording the prices of various items, such as pickled fish, pigs, birds, oil, meat, wood. Dated about 330.
Verso (SB XVI 12827, TM 16304): Account headed 'first pagus, schedule of chlamydes (military garments) for the 16th indiction', collected for military use and arranged by village. Each entry includes the name, fraction of the chlamys and sum. Presumably dated 342/3.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003687979 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1259 : Accounts (P.Lond. III 1259 ro., TM 22864; SB XVI 12827, P.Lond. III 1259 vo. descr., TM 16304) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1789]/040-003687979
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus roll, broken off on the right and fragmentary at the top (front); with surface damage throughout; written on both sides. The front bears the feet of five columns written along the fibres; the first sheet of the roll displays vertical fibres. Lower and left margins survive; sheet-joins are visible. On the back, the top of five columns written across the fibres the other way up in relation to the text on the front; left and upper margins survive. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469872.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0330
- End Date:
- 0343
- Date Range:
- 330-343
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 175 x 652 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 685 mm.
Script: Recto: Rapid and untidy cursive hand, thin and with a slant to the right. Verso: Thin cursive hand sloping to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1200-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 1259 ro.
P.Lond. III 1259 vo. descr.
SB XVI 12827 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum, 1907), p. 444.
Recto
Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), pp. 239-240, no. 1259 ro.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, III (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958), p. 97.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1964), p. 45.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986), p. 91.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 188.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 104.
Verso
Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum 1907), p. lxix, no. 1259 vo. descr.
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, ‘Five Papyri on Fourth Century Money and Prices’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 20 (1983), 1-19 (pp. 7-12, no. 4).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten ,XVI (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz ,1985), no. 12827.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 293.
F. Morelli, ‘Tessuti e indumenti nel contest economico tardo-antico: I prezzi’, Antiquité Tardive. Revue Internationale d'Histoire et d'Archéologie (IVe-VIIe siècle), 12 (2004), pp. 55-78.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)