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Papyrus 894
- Record Id:
- 040-003688947
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106099693.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469499.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 894
- Title:
- Petition concerning a Theft (SB XX 15032, P.Lond. IV 894 descr., TM 14925)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragmentary petition to Gaius Iulius Pholus, chief of police (epistates phylakiton), from a certain Menches, farmer in the estate of Decimus Valerius Asiaticus, concerning the theft of a piglet worth 16 drachmas. The petitioner asks the recipient to write to the archephodus (chief of village police). Dated to 24 January 39 or 41, or 25 January 40.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003688947 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 894 : Petition concerning a Theft (SB XX 15032, P.Lond. IV 894 descr., TM 14925) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1806]/040-003688947
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Left-hand portion of a medium-brown papyrus sheet, with some holes in places. The front bears the beginnings of 16 lines running along the fibres, with blank space between lines 15 and 16. Upper, left and lower (110 mm) margins are extant; a sheet-join runs from top to bottom at 13 mm from the left edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469499.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0039
- End Date:
- 0041
- Date Range:
- 39-41
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 285 x 65 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 340 x 115 mm.
Script: Thin, rapid cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Euhemeria, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Euhemeria, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt (?). Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 884-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. IV 894 descr.
SB XX 15032 - 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. 441.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xliii, no. 894 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 271.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Another οὐϲία of D. Valerius Asiaticus in Egypt’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 79 (1989), pp. 194-196.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1997), no. 15032.
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2011), pp. 43, 363.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 234.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)