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Papyrus 1386(A-B)
- Record Id:
- 040-003688552
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105958733.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465482.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1386(A-B)
- Title:
- Letters of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1389, P.Lond. IV 1390, TM 19842, 20494)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragmentary letters of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik.
Left papyrus (A) (P.Lond. IV 1390, TM 20494): Letter of the governor to Qurrah ben Sharik to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, with the order to send nails to be used for the building of ships at once. Dated 22 January 710. P.Ross.Georg. IV 9 preserves other fragments of this letter.
Right papyrus (B) (P.Lond. IV 1389, TM 19842): Fragmentary letter of the governor to Qurrah ben Sharik with the order to send skins, presumably for the fleet.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003688552 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1386(A-B) : Letters of the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1389, P.Lond. IV 1390, TM 19842, 20494) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1797]/040-003688552
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, bearing writing on one side, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
Left papyrus (A): Left-hand portion of a papyrus, medium-brown, broken off at the top; the beginnings of 10 lines written across the fibres survive, with traces of another line at the top. Left and lower margins are extant. Horizontal folds are visible. Three fragments of the same letter are now at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, inventoried as 13336 f and published as P.Ross.Georg. IV 9. The fragments preserve the right-hand portion of lines 7-10.
Right papyrus (B): Right-hand portion of a papyrus, medium-brown, broken off at the top and with holes regularly distributed along the right and left edges. The ends of 8 lines written across the fibres survive, with the lower margin. No margin was left on the right.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465482.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0709
- End Date:
- 0714
- Date Range:
- 709-714
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 280 x 101 mm; B: 250 x 70 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 335 x 255 mm.
Script: Thin, large sloping cursive hand; lines fairly spaced. One addition above the line in Papyrus 1386(B).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite 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. IV 1389
P.Lond. IV 1390 - 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. 445.
A
Greek Papyri in the British Museum IV. The Aphrodito Papyri (London: British Museum 1910), p. 62, no. 1390.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 64.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 188.
T. S. Richter, ‘Language Choice in the Qurra Dossier’, A. Papaconstantinou (ed.), The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate 2010), pp. 189-220 (p. 197).
B
Greek Papyri in the British Museum IV. The Aphrodito Papyri (London: British Museum 1910), p. 62, no. 1389.
T. S. Richter, ‘Language Choice in the Qurra Dossier’, A. Papaconstantinou (ed.), The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate 2010), pp. 189-220 (p. 197).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)