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Papyrus 855
- Record Id:
- 040-003781155
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100115686536.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472104.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 855
- Title:
- Tax Receipt (P.Lond. III 855(a), TM 11803), and Private Letter (P.Sarap. 86, TM 17108)
- Scope & Content:
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Left papyrus (A) (P.Lond. III 855(a), TM 11803): Extract from the records of the collectors of grain taxes of the village of Apias, acknowledging payments in wheat and lentils made by the shepherd Apkouis (Akouis), son of Polion. Written in red ink and dated around 216.
Right papyrus (B) (P.Sarap. 86, TM 17123): Private letter from Heliodorus, son of Sarapion, to his mother Selene, from the archive of Sarapion and his sons. Dated between 90 and 133. A few letters from the right-hand portion of the letter are contained in the second column of a papyrus now in Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie, inventoried as P. G 87.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003781155 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 855 : Tax Receipt (P.Lond. III 855(a), TM 11803), and Private Letter (P.Sarap. 86, TM 17108) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2197]/040-003781155
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus sheets that do not belong together, mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
Left papyrus (A): Medium-brown sheet, complete, damaged by abrasion and some insect holes; bearing writing on one side along the fibres. The front bears 9 lines; margins are extant. The back is blank.
Right papyrus (B): Medium-brown fragment, complete at the top, imperfect on the right and broken off on the other sides; bearing writing on one side along the fibres. The ends of 16 lines survive, with the upper margin. The back is blank. Another fragment of the same papyrus, which preserves the first letters of this column and the preceding column, is now in Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie, inventoried as P. G 87.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472104.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0090
- End Date:
- 0216
- Date Range:
- 90-216
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: B: 134 x 72 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 180 x 205 mm.
Script: A: Rapid cursive hand, in red ink. B: Neat and regular sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: A: Apias, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. B: Hermopolite nome, Egypt. B: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt.
Provenance: A: Arsinoite nome. B: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite 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:
- P.Lond. III 855(a)
P.Sarap. 86 - 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.
A
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. 51, no. 855(a).
Fabian Reiter, ‘P.Alex. inv. 565: Eine Schafpachtquittung’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 50 (2004), 45-48.
B
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xl, no. 855(b) descr.
Jacques Schwartz, Les archives de Sarapion et de ses fils. Une exploitation agricole aux environs d'Hermoupolis Magna (de 90 à 133 P.C.) (Le Caire: Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1961), pp. 232-33, no. 86.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986), p. 228.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)