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Papyrus 1427
- Record Id:
- 040-003791244
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100116422596.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469931.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1427
- Title:
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Tax Accounts from the Archive of Basilius (P.Lond. IV 1442, TM 39757-39763)
- Scope & Content:
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Papyrus roll containing several tax accounts.
Recto:
Lines 1-22 (A) (TM 39757): Account of requisitions for naval purposes, arranged by place.
Lines 23-30 (B, left column) (TM 39758): Shorter account of similar nature, dated in in the 8th indiction.
Lines 31-40 (C, right column) (TM 39759): Account for the fifth indiction, recording various places in the administrative district of Aphrodito and the sums paid.
Lines 41-end (D) (TM 39760): Account of payments for the grain-tax for the first indiction, arranged by place, with the yearly total of artabas of wheat paid.
Verso:
Text across the fibres in the upper half (E) (TM 39761): Account listing individuals, the place where they held land and the tax payments. The first line was washed out.
Text across the fibres in the lower half (G) (TM 39761): Tax account, possibly concerning the poll-tax.
Writing parallel to the fibres (F) (TM 39761): Parts of an account relating to gold taxes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003791244 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1427 : Tax Accounts from the Archive of Basilius (P.Lond. IV 1442, TM 39757-39763) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2226]/040-003791244
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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One large fragment and several smaller ones from a papyrus roll; written on both sides across the fibres, with the exception of a few lines on the back that run along the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469931.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0700
- End Date:
- 0799
- Date Range:
- early 8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Largest fragment: 480 x 373 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 745 x 440 mm.
Script: Recto: Sloping, rapid minuscule hand, rather irregular. Verso: Two or three hands of similar character.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Aphrodito (Kom Ishgau), Antaiopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito (Kom Ishgau), Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1200-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. IV 1442
- 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. 445.
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, IV: The Aphrodito Papyri (London: British Museum, 1910), pp. 347-52, no. 1442.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986), p. 191.
Federico Morelli, ‘P. Brook. 26: mogli, tasse e ξένοι. Un problema di punti di vista’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 130 (2000), 218–22 (p. 219).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 117.
Tonio S. Richter, ‘Language Choice in the Qurra Dossier’, in The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids, ed. by Arietta Papaconstantinou (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 189-220 (p. 203).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)