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Papyrus 1637
- Record Id:
- 040-003719726
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110565163.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470231.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1637
- Title:
- Petition (P.Lond. V 1786, TM 11823)
- Scope & Content:
- Petition to Kyrillos from Alos, concerning the son of a certain Apa Nakios; with address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003719726 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1637 : Petition (P.Lond. V 1786, TM 11823) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2007]/040-003719726
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Long and narrow light-brown papyrus sheet, complete but damaged by holes along the vertical folds; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 29 lines written along the fibres; margins are minimal. On the back, there are two lines written along the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470231.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0610
- End Date:
- 0610
- Date Range:
- c. 610
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 316 x 104 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 390 x 155 mm.
Script: Fair-sized cursive hand, with a tendency to become compressed towards the end.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1786
- 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. 311.
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum, 1917), pp. 242-3, no. 1786.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 304.
José O’Callaghan, Cartas cristianas griegas del siglo V (Barcelona: Ed. Balmes, 1963), no. 19.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976), p. 65.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 193.
Nikolaos Gonis, ‘Notes on the Aristocracy of Byzantine Fayum’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 166 (2008), 203-210 (p. 208, n. 31).
Jean Gascou, ‘Arabic Taxation in the mid-seventh-century Greek papyri’, in Constructing the seventh century (Travaux et mémoires 17), ed. by Constantin Zuckerman, (Paris: Collège de France, Centre de Recherche d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance 2013), pp. 671-8 (p. 672 n. 2).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)