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Papyrus 1897
- Record Id:
- 040-003724730
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100111687591.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470609.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1897
- Title:
- Official Document (SB IV 7379, TM 14015)
- Scope & Content:
- Official document concerned with the distraint of landed property due to unpaid debt. Detailed descriptions of the plots of land are provided. With official docket in the upper margin and red stamps on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003724730 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1897 : Official Document (SB IV 7379, TM 14015) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2057]/040-003724730
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, complete on all the other sides; on the front, there are forty-two lines written across the fibres, two of which were added in the upper margin; upper and lower margins are extant, no margin was left to the right; the back bears two stamp impressions in red ink. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470609.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0177
- End Date:
- 0177
- Date Range:
- 26 April 177
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 327 x 232 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 370 x 280 mm.
Script: Uneven and rather compressed cursive hand, with a slight slant to the right. Different cursive hand, smaller and rapid, in the two lines written in the upper margin.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1873-2016 from Ali Abd el Hari on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- SB IV 7379
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum, 1969), p. 475.
Harold Idris Bell, ‘Notes from Papyri in the British Museum’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 6 (1920), 100-13 (pp. 105-107, no. 2).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten IV (Straßburg: Trübner, 1931), p. 50, no. 7379.
Maria Anna Söllner, ‘Bemerkungen zur Datierung verschiedener Papyri’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 107 (1995), 81-4 (p. 83).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)