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Papyrus 1435
- Record Id:
- 040-003779269
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113993793.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469953.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1435
- Title:
-
Official Order from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1408, TM 19855)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragment of an order of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik to the inhabitants of Pente Pediades, in Aphrodito, to make nails out of the unrefined iron they receive from their pagarch Basilius. The rest of the order is preserved in a fragment now at Heidelberg, inventoried as PSR 15 a.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003779269 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1435 : Official Order from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1408, TM 19855) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2150]/040-003779269
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Right-hand portion of a papyrus sheet, the left-hand portion of which is now in Heidelberg (PSR 15 a); written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are parts of 14 lines running across the fibres, in Arabic and Greek. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469953.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0709
- End Date:
- 0709
- Date Range:
- September 709
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 260 x 130 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 310 x 175 mm.
Script: Greek text: Neat, upright cursive hand of the minuscule type.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1200-1520 from Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903. The fragment bearing Arabic lines at the top has been transferred from the Oriental Department of the British Museum, its previous shelfmark was Or 6325 (16).
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. IV 1408
- 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. 445.
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum IV. The Aphrodito Papyri (London: British Museum, 1910), pp. 78-79, no. 1408.
Carl H. Becker, ‘Arabische Papyri des Aphroditofundes’, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 20 (1907), 68-104 (pp. 88-90, no. 9).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, 1915), no. 5640.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 190.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 114.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009), p. 105.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)