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Papyrus 1752
- Record Id:
- 040-003725957
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113154019.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470486.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1752
- Title:
- Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1377, P.Ross.Georg. IV 8, TM 20493)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragment of a letter of governor Qurrah ben Sharik, possibly to Basilius, pagarch of Aphrodito, another portion of which is preserved in a papyrus at the Hermitage Museum. The governor orders the recipient to instruct his people not to sell materials at a higher price than the fixed tariff established in earlier orders. Additional instructions on some palm branches follow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725957 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1752 : Official Letter from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1377, P.Ross.Georg. IV 8, TM 20493) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2108]/040-003725957
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Right-hand portion of a medium-to-dark brown papyrus, additional portions of which are now in St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum inventoried as 13335. The writing runs on one side and the back is blank. The front bears the ends of 13 lines written across the fibres; lower and right margins survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470486.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0710
- End Date:
- 0710
- Date Range:
- 2 May 710
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 262 x 83 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 320 x 135 mm.
Script: Sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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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. IV 1377
P.Ross.Georg. IV 8 - Publications:
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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 IV (London: British Museum, 1910), pp. 50-1, no. 1377.
Pëtr Jernsted, Papyri russischer und georgischer Sammlungen. Die Kome-Aphrodito Papyri der Sammlung Lichačov (P.Ross.Georg. IV) (Tiflis: Universitäts Lithographie, 1927), no. 8.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976), p. 122.
H. Cadell, ‘Correspondance de Kurrah ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), 107-60.
Tonio S. Richter, ‘Language Choice in the Qurra Dossier’, The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids, ed. by Arietta Papaconstantinou, (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate 2010), pp. 189-220 (p. 197).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)