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Papyrus 908
- Record Id:
- 040-003694082
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100107004486.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469550.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 908
- Title:
- Petition (P.Lond. III 908, Chrest.Mitt. 229, TM 22706)
- Scope & Content:
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Portion of a petition presumably addressed to the prefect of Egypt from Eudaemonis, daughter of Marcus Ulpius Sarapion alias Serenus, former gymnasiarch of Hermopolis, concerning a dispute over some property. Eudaemonis encloses copies of earlier documentation concerning the dispute, where she had requested that her opponent be notified by the strategus: this includes the memorandum sent by her to Avillius Longus, strategus of the Hermopolite nome (dated 23 April 139), appending the instructions addressed to him from the deputy of the chief judge (archidikastes) (dated 5 April) as well as her request to the chief judge. The columns are numbered at the top. Dated after 1 May 139.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003694082 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 908 : Petition (P.Lond. III 908, Chrest.Mitt. 229, TM 22706) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1851]/040-003694082
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Part of a medium-brown papyrus roll, broken off to the left and lacking part of the top left corner; with a few holes on the left, otherwise well preserved; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 2 columns, the first of 26 lines, all lacking the beginnings and the second of 14 lines, complete. Upper, lower and right margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469550.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0139
- End Date:
- 0139
- Date Range:
- c. 139
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 267 x 399 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 315 x 455 mm.
Script: Proficient, thin sloping cursive hand, occasionally compressed at the end of the lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 885-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 229
P.Lond. III 908 - 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. 132-133, no. 908.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), no. 229.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 282.
R. Ziegler, ‘Bemerkungen zur Datierung dokumentarischer Papyri und Ostraka’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 114 (1996), pp. 157-161 (p. 161).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 112.
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 338.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)