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Papyrus 878
- Record Id:
- 040-003780457
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100114844478.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472140.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 878
- Title:
- Petition (SB VI 9217, TM 14214), and Edict of Constantine (SB VI 9218, TM 17873, LDAB 1061)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Lond. III 909(a), TM 11810): Petition from the city of Arsinoe to the emperors, apparently on tax matters.
Verso (SB VI 9218, TM 17873, LDAB 1061): Edict of the emperor Constantine to the inhabitants of Palestine in favour of the Christian religion, quoted by Eusebius, Life of Constantine II 26-29.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003780457 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 878 : Petition (SB VI 9217, TM 14214), and Edict of Constantine (SB VI 9218, TM 17873, LDAB 1061) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2174]/040-003780457
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Portion of a papyrus sheet, with two detached scraps, bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are portions of 16 lines written along the fibres, lacking beginnings and ends; on the back, there are parts of 22 lines written across the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472140.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0319
- End Date:
- 0320
- Date Range:
- 319-320
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Largest fragment: 234 x 206 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 265 mm.
Script: Recto: Upright and large chancery hand; Verso: Proficient cursive hand of small size.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 835-878 by the executors of William Joseph Myers, F. S. A., (b. 1858, d. 1899) through R. Taylor in 1900.
- Former External References:
- SB VI 9217
SB VI 9218 - 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. 440
Recto
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xlii, no. 878 descr.
Theodore C. Skeat, ‘Britain and the Papyri (P. Lond. 878)’, in Aus Antike und Orient. Festschrift Wilhelm Schubart zum 75. Geburtstag (Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1950), pp. 126-32.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band VI (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1958), no. 9217.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 254.
Verso
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xlii, no. 878 descr.
Theodore C. Skeat, ‘Britain and the Papyri (P. Lond. 878)’, in Aus Antike und Orient. Festschrift Wilhelm Schubart zum 75. Geburtstag (Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1950), pp. 126-32.
Theodore C. Skeat, ‘Two Byzantine Documents’, British Museum Quarterly 18 (1953), 71-73.
Wilhelm Schubart, ‘Zu Skeat: Britain and the Papyri’, in Festschrift Friedrich Zucker zum 70. Geburtstag (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1954), pp. 341-48.
Theodore C. Skeat, Arnold H. M. Jones, ‘Notes on the Genuineness of the Constantinian Documents in Eusebius' Life of Constantine’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 5 (1954), 196-200.
Johannes Straub, ‘Ein Papyrusfragment (Pap. Lond. 878) von Konstantins 1. Edikt an die Orientalen’, Theologische Literaturzeitung 79 (1954), coll. 509-512.
Johannes Straub, ‘Palingenesia. Bemerkungen zu einem Papyrus (P. Lond. 878) aus der Zeit des Licinius’, Historisches Jahrbuch 74 (1955), 653-61.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band VI (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1958), no. 9218.
Joseph van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), no. 649.
Kurt Aland, Hans-Udo Rosenbaum, Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri. 1-2 vols. (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter ,1976-1995), vol. 2: Kirchenväter (1995), no. 23.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)