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Papyrus 2984
- Record Id:
- 040-003715851
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110168910.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468600.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2984
- Title:
- Account (P.Hib. II 213, TM 8287)
- Scope & Content:
- Account recording money payments made by or on behalf of Egyptian priests and various workers in a temple, possibly in Oxyrhynchus; the entries are arranged by days of the month and are check-marked through oblique strokes. The right-hand fragment is illegible owing to the remains of plaster covering it.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003715851 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2984 : Account (P.Hib. II 213, TM 8287) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1972]/040-003715851
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Two fragments of the same papyrus, from mummy cartonnage and a small detached scrap, covered with remains of plaster; with writing on one side. The left-hand fragment bears portions of two columns written along the fibres; of the first, the ends of 9 lines survive; of the second, 20 lines survive; the right margin is minimal. The right-hand fragment belongs to the right-hand portion of a papyrus; it preserves the beginnings of some lines, illegible owing to the remains of plaster covering it. The right margin survives. The fragments are mounted in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468600.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0250
- End Date:
- -0250
- Date Range:
- c. 250 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fr. 1: 160 x 105 mm; f. 2: 123 x 51 mm; fr. 3: 31 x 15 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 240 mm.
Script: Neat, regular and skilled upright hand, smaller in places.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Oxyrhynchus (?), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. From mummy cartonnage (Mummy A6). 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 213
- Publications:
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Eric G. Turner, The Hibeh Papyri. Volume II (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1955), pp. 131-132, no. 213.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 151.
Willy Clarysse, ‘Notes on Papyri’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 168 (2009), 243-246 (p. 243).
Willy Clarysse, Mario C. D. Paganini, ‘Theophoric Personal Names in Graeco-Roman Egypt. The Case of Sarapis’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 55 (2009), 68-89 (p. 74, n. 18).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)