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Egerton Papyrus 37
- Record Id:
- 040-003720837
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001982502
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100111163530.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469687.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton Papyrus 37
- Title:
- List of Fugitives (TM 397916)
- Scope & Content:
- List of five persons who had fled from the Oxyrhynchite village of Tanais to three other Oxyrhynchite localities, perhaps because of financial reasons; the list was probably drawn up in a state office, possibly by the administrators of Tanais or those of the administrative part (skelos) that included the village.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001982502
040-003720837 - Is part of:
- Egerton Papyrus 1-37 : Egerton Papyri
Egerton Papyrus 37 : List of Fugitives (TM 397916) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001982502[0011]/040-003720837
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Egerton Papyrus 1-37
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved; bearing writing on one side. The back is blank. On the front, there are 8 complete lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469687.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0650
- End Date:
- 0699
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of 7th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 124 x 150 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 195 x 190 mm.
Script: Upright, minuscule hand of a professional scribe.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Purchased from Folio Fine Art on 19 September 1970.
- Publications:
- Nikolaos Gonis, ‘List of Fugitives’, in Text Editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca. Some people love their friends even when they are far away: Festschrift in Honour of Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk (P. L. Bat.37), ed. by Guus A.J.C. van Loon and Joanne Vera Stolk (Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2021), pp. 225-7, no. 51, with plate.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)