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Papyrus 1646
- Record Id:
- 040-003719823
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110634272.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470244.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1646
- Title:
- Petition of Dioscorus of Aphrodito (P.Lond. V 1677, TM 19696)
- Scope & Content:
- Petition to a magister (official on the staff of the dux, military governor) from Dioscorus, who complains about the misdeeds of the pagarch Melas. Not only did Melas confiscate his lands in Phthla, leaving to Dioscorus the liability for the taxes, but he also committed outrages against Dioscorus’ family. The text continues on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003719823 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1646 : Petition of Dioscorus of Aphrodito (P.Lond. V 1677, TM 19696) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2009]/040-003719823
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-to-dark-brown papyrus sheet, lacking part of the left-hand edge and with damage along the folds; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 32 lines written along the fibres, most of which lack the beginnings; on the back, there are 25 lines written across the fibres, the other way up in relation to the text on the front; most of the lines lack the beginnings. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470244.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0568
- End Date:
- 0570
- Date Range:
- 568-570
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 313 x 360 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 370 x 420 mm.
Script: Sloping cursive hand of Dioscorus (Hand B) of fair size, with a tendency to become smaller and more compressed.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Antinoopolis, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite 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 1677
- 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. 68-73, no. 1677.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1964), p. 45.
Leslie S. B. Mac Coull, Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World (Berkeley: University of California Press 1988), pp. 24-5.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 146.
Denis Feissel, Jean Gascou, La pétition à Byzance (Paris: Association des amis du Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2004), p. 170.
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), pp. 92, 356, Planche IV, and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009), p. 108.
Amin Benaissa, ‘An Arsinoite Landowner and Clarissimus Magister of a Military Unit’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 26 (2011), 23-31 (p. 27).
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)