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Papyrus 2217
- Record Id:
- 040-003717678
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110227221.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467390.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2217
- Title:
- Petition to a Bishop (SB IV 7449, TM 35117)
- Scope & Content:
- Aurelia Nonna petitions the bishop of the Oxyrhynchus Theodorus, accusing Alypius, a monk and her nephew, of trying to give Nonna’s daughter in marriage to a relative. As the daughter was refusing, the monk beat Nonna and tore her clothes. She now asks that Alypius be summoned; Nonna will accept the bishop’s decision. With subscription of Nonna at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003717678 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2217 : Petition to a Bishop (SB IV 7449, TM 35117) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1984]/040-003717678
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, riddled with small insect-holes and with damage throughout; bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 14 lines running along the fibres. All margins are extant; folding lines are still visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467390.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0450
- End Date:
- 0499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of 5th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 275 x 207 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 335 x 280 mm.
Script: Competent cursive hand sloping to the right; different hand of the subscription in the last line.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2103-2238 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in May 1920.
- Former External References:
- SB IV 7449
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920 (London: British Museum 1933), p. 373.
Harold Idris Bell, ‘'The Episcopalis Audientia in Byzantine Egypt'’, Byzantion 1 (1924), 139-144.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten IV (Straßburg: Trübner, 1931), pp. 84-85, no. 7449.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009), p. 188.
Ari Z. Bryen, Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), pp. 277-278, no. 130.
Georg Schmelz, ‘Clerics as arbiters in Christian Egypt’, in Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary, ed. by James G. Keenan, Joseph G. Manning, Uri Yiftach-Firanko (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 527-528, no. 10.5.4.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)