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Papyrus 1618
- Record Id:
- 040-003707157
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108770031.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465797.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1618
- Title:
- Tax Receipt (SB XX 15166, P.Lond. V 1883 descr., TM 38541)
- Scope & Content:
- Tax receipt for two payments of forty-five and a half and sixty-five and a half artabas of salt respectively, made by a certain Isidorus for the first and second indictions. The total is erroneously given as one hundred and ten and a half artabas. With subscription of the officials who issued the receipt at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003707157 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1618 : Tax Receipt (SB XX 15166, P.Lond. V 1883 descr., TM 38541) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1893]/040-003707157
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus slip, light-brown, complete but with abrasion and other surface damage; bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 5 lines running against the fibres, abraded in places; margins are extant. A sheet-join runs horizontally along the upper edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465797.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 70 x 285 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 120 x 330 mm.
Script: Fairly large, rough cursive hand.
- 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 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1883 descr.
SB XX 15166 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 311.
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum, 1917), p. 276, no. 1883 descr.
Pieter J. Sijpesteijn, Klaas A. Worp, ‘Einige griechische Papyri aus dem byzantinischen Ägypten’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 90 (1992), 233-4, no. 1, with pl. iv.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1997), no. 15166.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 234.
Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, ‘Tax Register’, in Papyri of the University Library of Basel (P.Bas. II) ed. by Sabine R. Huebner et al. (Berlin-Boston: de Gruyter 2020), p. 243.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)