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Papyrus 3104
- Record Id:
- 040-003721056
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100111289726.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471802.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3104
- Title:
- Inventory of Goods (P.Michael. 18, TM 31558)
- Scope & Content:
- Portions of an inventory of goods, listing golden ornaments, items of clothing, bronze and iron objects, wooden articles as well as monthly expenditures for e.g. bread-making, radish oil, cloak trimmings. Valuation of some of the objects are given. The editor suggests that the inventory may have been drawn up by the guardian of a woman who had apparently fallen ill to set her affairs.Fragments c-i are unpublished. Fragment h refers to an account of monthly expenses and mentions two years.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003721056 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3104 : Inventory of Goods (P.Michael. 18, TM 31558) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2045]/040-003721056
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Nine non-contiguous fragments (labelled A-I) and a small detached scrap of a light-brown papyrus roll, displaying surface damage in places; written on one side along the fibres; the back is blank. Housed in the same glass frame.
A: Large fragment with portions of three columns lacking the top and apparently part of the lower margin; small detached scrap at the bottom;
B: Large fragment with one column of 29 lines, some of which are imperfect at the beginning;
C: Small fragment with the beginnings of 7 lines;
D: Small fragment with the central portions of 13 lines, badly abraded;
E: Small fragment with a few letters remaining from 1 line;
F: Small fragment with the central portions of 5 lines; with blank space between lines 3 and 4;
G: Small fragment with the central portions of 4 lines, in faint ink, and apparently upper margin;
H: Fragment with central portions of 11 lines; only a small trace survives of line 1 and line 11;
I: Fragment with the beginnings of 10 lines and ample blank space on the left.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471802.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 100 x 235 mm; B: 215 x 125 mm; C: 45 x 30 mm; D: 75 x 20 mm; E: 10 x 20 mm; F: 37 x 30 mm; G: 45 x 28 mm; H: 67 x 45 mm; I: 60 x 42 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 460 x 330 mm.
Script: Small and neat cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Acquired with other Michaelides material, including Papyri 3100-3131, in April 1979 and transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books in May 1979. Formerly part of the private collection of Georges Anastase Michaelides (b. 1900, d. 1973), antiquities dealer in Cairo, sold by his heirs after his death, under the inventory number 1407.
- Former External References:
- P.Michael. 18
- Publications:
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David S. Crawford, Papyri Michaelidae: being a catalogue of the Greek and Latin papyri, tablets and ostraca in the library of Mr. G.A. Michaïlidis of Cairo (Aberdeen: The Aberdeen University Press, for the Egypt Exploration Society 1955), pp. 29-36, no. 18.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1964), p. 51.
Simona Russo, I gioielli nei papiri di età greco-romana (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli, 1999), pp. 146-7, no. 33.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009), p. 118.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)