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Papyrus 1437
- Record Id:
- 040-003779334
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100114115876.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469967.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1437
- Title:
- Official Order from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1410, SB I 5639, TM 19857)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragment of an order of the governor Qurrah ben Sharik in Arabic and Greek, addressed to the inhabitants of Aphrodito. The recipients are asked to supply four skilled workmen to repair ships in Babylon. Details of the salaries are included. Dated in October or November. The rest of the document is now in Heidelberg, under the inventories PSR 14 and 19(g).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003779334 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1437 : Official Order from the Governor Qurrah ben Sharik (P.Lond. IV 1410, SB I 5639, TM 19857) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2157]/040-003779334
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Right-hand portion of a papyrus sheet, further fragments of which are now in Heidelberg (PSR 14 and 19g); written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are parts of 10 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_100147469967.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Arabic
Greek - Start Date:
- 0709
- End Date:
- 0709
- Date Range:
- 709
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 191 x 121 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 245 x 170 mm.
Script: Greek text: Neat, upright cursive hand of the minuscule type.
- Custodial History:
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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 inventoried as Or 6235(17), bearing Arabic lines at the top and two Greek lines, has been transferred from the Oriental Department of the British Museum.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. IV 1410
SB I 5639 - 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), p. 79, no. 1410.
Carl H. Becker, ‘Arabische Papyri des Aphroditofundes’, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 20 (1907), 68-104 (pp. 84-87, no. 8).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, 1915), no. 5639.
Hélène Cadell, ‘Nouveaux fragments de la correspondance de Kurrah ben Sharik’, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 (1967), pp. 107-160 (p. 145).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 114.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)