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Papyrus 2231
- Record Id:
- 040-003718325
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110343128.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467417.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2231
- Title:
- Petition (SB VI 9239, TM 17881)
- Scope & Content:
- Petition to Flavius Melas, tachygraphos (shorthand writer) of the governor’s office in the province of Arcadia, from Christodora, of Oxyrhynchus, complaining that her son-in-law, with whom she had been living, took her possessions, threw her out of the house, and beat her. She asks that he be summoned. With Christodora’s subscription and date at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003718325 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2231 : Petition (SB VI 9239, TM 17881) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1986]/040-003718325
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, with minor surface damage at the bottom; bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 24 lines running along the fibres. All margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467417.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0548
- End Date:
- 0548
- Date Range:
- 15 October 548
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 295 x 146 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 345 x 200 mm.
Script: Competent, large, upright hand; different, smaller hand in the last 4 lines, with a slight slant to the right.
- 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 VI 9239
- 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.
J. Lallemand, ‘Une pétition au tachygraphe du bureau du "praeses" d'Arcadie: P. Lond. 2231’, Chronique d'Égypte 27 (1952), 205-9.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band VI (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1963), no. 9239.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 342.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 206.
Ari Z. Bryen, Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), p. 279, no. 135.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)