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Papyrus 1212
- Record Id:
- 040-003781168
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100115798357.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469858.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1212
- Title:
- Fragment of a Register (P.Lond. III 1212 ro., TM 22835), and Receipt (P.Lond. III 1212 vo. TM 22836)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Lond. III 1212 ro., TM 22835): Portion of a register recording amounts of grain received and paid out and arranged by allotment. Dated in 253-254 or 254-255.
Verso (P.Lond. III 1212 vo. TM 22836): Receipt for payment of seed corn. Dated 16 October 286.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003781168 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1212 : Fragment of a Register (P.Lond. III 1212 ro., TM 22835), and Receipt (P.Lond. III 1212 vo. TM 22836) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2201]/040-003781168
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Medium-brown papyrus fragment, written on both sides. On the front, there are the ends of 18 lines written along the fibres; the column is broken off at the top, bottom and left; no margin was left to the right. The piece of papyrus was cut to host the text on the back, which consists of 4 lines written along the fibres; margins are extant. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469858.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0253
- End Date:
- 0286
- Date Range:
- 253-286
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 184 x 105 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 155 mm.
Script: Neat, upright cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising papyri 1200-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 1212 ro.
P.Lond. III 1212 vo. - 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. 444.
Recto
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), pp. 90-91, no. 1212 ro.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 278.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 105.
Renate Ziegler, ‘Bemerkungen zur Datierung dokumentarischer Papyri und Ostraka’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 114 (1996), 157-161 (p. 158).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 113.
Verso
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), pp. 90-91, no. 1212 vo.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Hermopolite nome, 15th Upper Egyptian nome, Egypt