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Papyrus 948
- Record Id:
- 040-003781992
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100115840245.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472175.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 948
- Title:
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Contract of Transport by Boat (P.Lond. III 948 ro., TM 11822), and Letter to Heroninus (P.Lond. III 948 vo., TM 11050)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Lond. III 948 ro., TM 11822): Aurelius Heracles, son of Dioscorus, a ship-captain, undertakes to ship 250 artabas of vegetable seed to the harbour in Oxyrhynchus for Aurelius Areius, a councillor at Arsinoe, at a price of 100 drachmas. Of these, 60 drachmas will be received upon delivery. The subscription of Heracles is at the end, followed by the date (corresponding to 19 October 236).
Verso (P.Lond. III 948 vo., TM 11050): Letter from Heraclides to Heroninus and Syrus on various matters, including instructions to collect some payments owed by shepherds. Dated 14 February 257.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003781992 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 948 : Contract of Transport by Boat (P.Lond. III 948 ro., TM 11822), and Letter to Heroninus (P.Lond. III 948 vo., TM 11050) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2203]/040-003781992
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete, with slight damage and dark-stained on the front; written on both sides. The front bears 16 lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant; the back was reused to host another text, complete, consisting of 16 lines running along the fibres. All margins are extant. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472175.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0236
- End Date:
- 0257
- Date Range:
- 236-257
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 124 x 205 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 175 x 255 mm.
Script: Recto: Proficient sloping cursive hand; different hand for the subscription in lines 13-14. Verso: Rapid sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 884-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- P.Flor. II 185**
P.Lond. III 948 ro.
P.Lond. III 948 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. 441.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), pp. 219-20, no. 948 ro.
Ulrich Wilcken, Ludwig Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. 2 vols. (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner, 1912), II.2, p. 390, no. 341.
Paul M. Meyer, Juristische Papyri (Erklärung von Urkunden zur Einführung in die juristische Papyruskunde) (Berlin: Weidmann, 1920), pp. 139-41, no. 43.
Allan C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1936), p. 423, no. 271.
Salvatore Riccobono et al. (eds.), Fontes iuris romani antejustiniani. Pars tertia: negotia, edidit Vincentius Arangio – Ruiz (Firenze: Barbèra, 1972), no. 155.
Dominic Rathbone, Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century A.D. Egypt. The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991), p. 416, and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 181.
P. Pestman, The New Papyrological Primer (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1994), pp. 230-31, no. 60.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 136.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009), p. 102.
Verso
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), pp. 219-20, no. 948 vo.
Domenico Comparetti, Papiri greco-egizii, Papiri Fiorentini, vol. II: Papiri letterari ed epistolari (Milano: Hoepli, 1908), p. 148, no. 185**.
Dominic Rathbone, Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century A.D. Egypt. The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 413, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)