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Papyrus 901
- Record Id:
- 040-003725115
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112288577.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472149.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 901
- Title:
- Census Register (P.Lond. III 901, TM 25971)
- Scope & Content:
- Portion of a census register relating to the village of Herakleia, listing houses and members of the households. On the back, there are traces of two columns of another register, unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725115 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 901 : Census Register (P.Lond. III 901, TM 25971) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2074]/040-003725115
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragment of a medium-brown roll, with writing on both sides. On the front, there is one column broken off at the bottom and written along the fibres, of which 41 lines survive. A few traces of the preceding column survive. On the back, there are portions of one column running across the fibres, badly abraded in places, and a few traces of the following column. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472149.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0075
- End Date:
- 0125
- Date Range:
- 75-125
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 234 x 127 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 180 mm.
Script: Small, neat upright hand, ligatures in places. Different hand on the back, larger and more cursive.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 885-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 901
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum, 1907), p. 441.
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum, 1907), pp. 23-4, no. 901.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), pp. 273-4.
Deborah Hobson, ‘The Inhabitants of Heraklia’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 23 (1986), 99-123 (p. 101).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 132.
Richard Alston, The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt (London-New York: Routledge, 2002), p. 71.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)