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Papyrus 1858
- Record Id:
- 040-003719593
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110492163.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470579.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1858
- Title:
- Account of Expenses from the Archive of Dioscorus (P.Lond. V 1670, TM 19692)
- Scope & Content:
- Portion of an account of expenses, including tax payments made from the local treasury. It may be part of P.Cair.Masp I 67056. Written after 25 May 551.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003719593 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1858 : Account of Expenses from the Archive of Dioscorus (P.Lond. V 1670, TM 19692) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2001]/040-003719593
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-dark brown papyrus fragment, another portion of which may be a papyrus now in Cairo, published as P.Cair.Masp I 67056; complete at the top, bottom and right, broken off on the left; written on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 2 columns of 15 and 6 lines respectively, running along the fibre;, the first column lacks its left-hand half. A sheet-join runs vertically down the centre. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470579.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0551
- End Date:
- 0551
- Date Range:
- c. 551
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 172 x 313 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 225 x 360 mm.
Script: Upright cursive hand, irregular in size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Transferred from the Oriental Department in 1907 (from Or. 6807, acquired in that year), and accessioned in 1909.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1670
- 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. 315.
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum, 1917), pp. 37-39, no. 1670.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: Brill, 1958), p. 97.
Constantin Zuckerman, Du village à l'empire: autour du registre fiscal d'Aphroditó (525/526) (Paris: Association des Amis du Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2004), pp. 40-42, 50.
Jean-Luc Fournet, Les archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodité cent ans après leur découverte: histoire et culture dans l'Egypte byzantine: actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 8-10 décembre 2005 (Paris: De Boccard, 2008), p. 330.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), p. 126.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Dioscorus of Aphrodito, poet and administrator, 6th century
- Places:
- Kôm Ishgau, Egypt; the site of Aphrodito
- Related Material:
- The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Dioskoros (TM Arch ID 72). Perhaps part of P.Cair.Masp I 67056.