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Papyrus 1640
- Record Id:
- 040-003719799
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110626782.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470235.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1640
- Title:
- Tax Receipt (P.Lond. V 1750, TM 38853)
- Scope & Content:
- Receipt for various payments made by the inhabitants of the village of Pkemo on account of the poll tax (andrismos) in the first indiction. Dated to 642/3 or 657/8.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003719799 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1640 : Tax Receipt (P.Lond. V 1750, TM 38853) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2008]/040-003719799
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete but damaged by holes and rubbed; bearing writing on one side; the back is blank. On the front, there are 8 lines written along the fibres; margins are minimal. A sheet-join runs horizontally in the centre. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470235.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0600
- End Date:
- 0699
- Date Range:
- 7th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 116 x 176 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 170 x 230 mm.
Script: Round and regular minuscule hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolite 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 1750
- 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), p. 210, no. 1750.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 108.
Nikolaos Gonis, ‘Reconsidering Some Fiscal Documents from Early Islamic Egypt III’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 169 (2009), 197-208 (pp. 199-200).
Federico Morelli, L'archivio di Senouthios anystes e testi connessi (Corpus papyrorum Raineri archeducis Austriae; Bd. 30) (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 2010), p. 132.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)