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Papyrus 895
- Record Id:
- 040-003688951
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106101881.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469504.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 895
- Title:
- Petition (P.Lond. III 895, TM 11804)
- Scope & Content:
- Beginning of a petition addressed to Sarapion, chief of police (epistates phylakiton), from Protarchus, son of Protarchus, complaining that one of his farmers had left his fields and owed him some sort of payment. With the endorsement ('of Euhemeria') on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003688951 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 895 : Petition (P.Lond. III 895, TM 11804) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1807]/040-003688951
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, with some surface damage in places; written on both sides. On the front, there are 13 lines from the top of a column written along the fibres; the last two lines are very fragmentary. Upper and left margins are extant, no margin was left to the right. Vertical folds are still visible. On the back, there is one word written along the fibres in the lower right edge. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469504.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0028
- End Date:
- 0030
- Date Range:
- 28-30
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 147 x 78 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 195 x 130 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. III 895
- 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), pp. 129-130, no. 895.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 281.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 83.
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2011), pp. 43, 126, 346.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 112.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)