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Papyrus 1626(A-B)
- Record Id:
- 040-003780638
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100115443620.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470197.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1626(A-B)
- Title:
- Fragments of Contracts (P.Bingen 129, TM 19768; SB XXVIII 16969, TM 35263)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper papyrus (A) (P.Bingen 129, P.Lond. V 1797, TM 19768): Fragment of a contract, addressed to a lawyer (scholasticus) from a singularis, an officer on the staff of the governor of the province of Arcadia. Possibly dated 10 July 501.
Lower papyrus (B) (SB XXVIII 16969, P.Lond. V 1876 descr., TM 35263): Fragment of a lease of an artificially irrigated plot of land, the landowner possibly being Flavius Apphous, son of the late Flavius Eulogius; with endorsement on the back. Dated to 498-499 or 513-514.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003780638 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1626(A-B) : Fragments of Contracts (P.Bingen 129, TM 19768; SB XXVIII 16969, TM 35263) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2194]/040-003780638
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.
Upper papyrus (A): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, broken off at the bottom and left, complete at the top and right; written on one side along the fibres; the front bears the ends of 12 lines. The upper margin is extant, no margin was left to the right.
Lower papyrus (B): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, darker at the top, broken off at the top, bottom and right, complete on the left; written on both sides. On the front, there are the beginnings of 10 lines written along the fibres, with traces of another line at the bottom. The left margin is extant. On the back, there is a portion of one line written along the fibres.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470197.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0498
- End Date:
- 0514
- Date Range:
- 498-514
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 147 x 127 mm; B: 111 x 80 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 360 x 175 mm.
Script: Neat, medium-sized cursive hands.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite 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.Bingen 129
P.Lond. V 1797
P.Lond. V 1876 descr.
SB XXVIII 16969 - 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.
A
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, V (London: British Museum, 1917), pp. 255-56, no. 1797.
Todd M. Hickey, James G. Keenan, ‘P.Lond. V 1797: Classification and Date’, in Papyri in Honorem Johannis Bingen Octogenarii, ed. by Henri Melaerts (Leuven: Peeters, 2000), pp. 529-35, no. 129.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), p. 47.
B
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, V (London: British Museum, 1917), p. 274, no. 1876 descr.
James G. Keenan, ‘From the Archive of Flavius Eulogius and his Descendants’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 34 (1979), 133-38 (pp. 133-34).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 194.
Todd M. Hickey, James G. Keenan, ‘P. Lond. V 1876 descr.: Which Landowner?’, Chronique d'Égypte, 79 (2004), 241-48.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XXVIII (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 2013), no. 16969.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)