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Papyrus 1548
- Record Id:
- 040-003725732
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112703197.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470099.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1548
- Title:
- Agreement for Arbitration from the Archive of Dioscorus (P.Lond. V 1707, TM 19724)
- Scope & Content:
- Agreement for arbitration (compromissum) between Aurelius Conon, representing his wife Athanasia, on the one hand, and Athanasia’s uncle Aurelius Theodorus, son of Psoius, and his nephew Aurelius Psoius, son of Cosmas, a notary, on the other. The dispute may be the one concerning half share of the inheritance of Athanasia’s father preserved in P.Cair.Masp. II 67161, where Dioscorus acted as legal representative of Athanasia. On the back, there are remains of a few lines, possibly not related to the text on the front.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725732 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1548 : Agreement for Arbitration from the Archive of Dioscorus (P.Lond. V 1707, TM 19724) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2092]/040-003725732
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium- to dark-brown papyrus, with wormholes regularly distributed and damage along the vertical folds; written on both sides. On the front, there are 8 lines running along the fibres. The back bears traces of 3 or 4 lines running along the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470099.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0566
- End Date:
- 0566
- Date Range:
- 5 October 566
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 125 x 872 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 180 x 940 mm.
Script: Proficient sloping cursive hand, regular and compact. Different hand on the back.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, 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 1707
- Publications:
-
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. 112-4, no. 1707.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976), p. 65.
Roger S. Bagnall, Klaas A. Worp, 'Chronological Notes On Byzantine Documents (VII)’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 17 (1980), 105-17 (p. 113).
Zola M. Packman, ‘Regnal Formulas in Document Date and in the Imperial Oath’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 91 (1992), 61–76 (p. 76).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 120.
Roger S. Bagnall, ‘Women’s Petition in Late Antique Egypt’, in La pétition à Byzance, ed. by Denis Feissel, Jean Gascou (Paris: Assoc. des Amis du Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2004), pp. 53-60 (p. 58).
Roger S. Bagnall, Klaas A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt (2nd ed.) (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004), p. 210.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)