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Papyrus 2978
- Record Id:
- 040-003713662
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110106003.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468571.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2978
- Title:
- Official Letter (P.Hib. II 206, TM 5190)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragmentary letter from Theophilus to Plutarchus, an official concerned with the collection of taxes in kind (perhaps a sitologos), urging him to send some seed corn and ordering him to charge a fee in the future given that a cultivator had failed to register his requirements in seed. With address and cartonnage decoration on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003713662 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2978 : Official Letter (P.Hib. II 206, TM 5190) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1967]/040-003713662
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragments from a medium-brown papyrus, reused as mummy cartonnage; one of the fragments at the bottom may come from another papyrus; written on both sides. On the front, there are portions of 28 lines written along the fibres; on the back, there is the end of a word written along the fibres, and remains of plaster and decoration. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468571.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0262
- End Date:
- -0262
- Date Range:
- 21 June 262 BC (?)
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: over 300 x 100 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 310 x 155 mm.
Script: Careful cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt. .
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. From mummy cartonnage (Mummy 18). Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2943-3035 by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society on 9 April 1960.
- Former External References:
- P.Hib. II 206
- Publications:
- Eric G. Turner, The Hibeh Papyri. Volume II (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1955), pp. 121-122, no. 206.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)