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Papyrus 904
- Record Id:
- 040-003725950
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113141005.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472157.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 904
- Title:
- Official Documents (P.Lond. III 904, Chrest.Wilck. 202, TM 11807)
- Scope & Content:
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Portion of an official roll.
Column 1, lines 1-6: Letter acknowledging receipt of twenty-four ichneumons, one of which was dead, sent by Claudius Erasus, the strategus of the division of Themistos in the Arsinoite nome. Dated 18 July 104.
Column 1, line 7-end: Letter of Areius to the strategus, referring to a letter sent to the prefect on the subject of the ichneumons, and mentioning another letter concerning measures. Dated 7 August 104.
Traces of a preceding column are visible.
Column 2: Edict of the prefect Gaius Vibius Maximus, announcing the beginning of the census and ordering those temporarily away from their place of registration to return home. Dated between 25 June and 24 July 104.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725950 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 904 : Official Documents (P.Lond. III 904, Chrest.Wilck. 202, TM 11807) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2106]/040-003725950
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Portion of a medium-brown papyrus roll, darker by patches, broken off on the left and right and with holes in the preserved portion; bearing writing on one side. The back is blank. On the front, there are two columns written along the fibres, the second being imperfect. The ends of a few lines from a preceding column are visible. Lower and upper margins survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472157.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0104
- End Date:
- 0104
- Date Range:
- 104
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 220 x 317 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 270 x 365 mm.
Script: Large and clear upright hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Alexandria, Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, 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:
- Chrest.Wilck. 202
P.Lond. III 904
Sel. pap. II 220 - 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.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum, 1907), pp. 124-6, no. 904, with pl. 30.
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, Ulrich Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 4 (1908), 526-68 (pp. 544-5).
Ulrich Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner, 1912), pp. 235-7, no. 202.
Paul M. Meyer, Juristische Papyri (Erklärung von Urkunden zur Einführung in die juristische Papyruskunde) (Berlin: Weidmann 1920), no. 2(a).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 281.
Adolf Deissmann, Licht vom Osten: das Neue Testament und die neuentdeckten Texte der hellenistisch-römischen Welt (Tübingen: Mohr, 1923(4)), p. 233.
Frank F. Abbott, Allan C. Johnson, Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1926), pp. 516-7.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1933), p. 83.
Arthur S. Hunt, Campbell C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann, 1935), pp. 108-9, no. 220.
Allan C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1936), p. 250, no. 143; p. 625, no. 370.
Allan C. Johnson, Paul R. Coleman-Norton, Frank C. Bourne, Clyde Pharr, Ancient Roman statutes: a translation, with introduction, commentary, glossary, and index (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961), p. 167, no. 208.
Hubert Metzger, Nachrichten aus dem Wüstensand: eine Sammlung von Papyruszeugnissen (Zürich-München: Artemis, 1974), no. 6.
Napthali Lewis, Life in Egypt under Roman Rule (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), pp. 156-7.
Robert K. Sherk, The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988), p. 157.
Adam Łukaszewicz, ‘Some Berlin Papyri Reconsidered’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 82 (1990), 129-32 (pp. 129, 131).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 181.
Hannah M. Cotton, ‘Another Fragment of the Declaration of Landed Property from the Province of Arabia’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 99 (1993), 115-21 (p. 120).
Hannah M. Cotton, ‘Ἡ νέα ἐπαρχεία ᾽Αραία: The New Province of Arabia in the Papyri from the Judaean Desert’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 116 (1997), 204-8 (p. 207).
Edith Specht (ed.), Alltägliches Altertum (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1998), pp. 171-5, no. 3.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 112.
Bernhard Palme, Zivile Aufgaben der Armee im kaiserzeitlichen Ägypten (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2006), p. 315.
Peter Arzt-Grabner, Christlicher Alltag anhand der Papyri aus dem 2. Jahrhundert. In Das ägyptische Christentum im 2. Jahrhundert (Wien-Berlin: Lit. Verlag, 2008), pp. 109-10.
Sabine R. Huebner, Papyri and the Social World of the New Testament (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), chapter III.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)