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Papyrus 856
- Record Id:
- 040-003796359
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100117867112.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472109.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 856
- Title:
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Regulations of Customs and Sales (P.Lond. III 856 ro., Chrest.Wilck. 274, TM 25969), and Account (P.Lond. III 856 vo., TM 29243)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (TM 25969): Regulations of customs and sales from the late first century, giving tariffs of excise duties on various items, such as livestock, pickled fish, and oil. The first section deals with rates of toll or sales-tax on calves or steer, based on age and provenience. Another section deals with the regulation on import and sale into the metropolis, villages and other districts as well.
Verso (TM 29243): Second-century account, arranged by day; unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003796359 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 856 : Regulations of Customs and Sales (P.Lond. III 856 ro., Chrest.Wilck. 274, TM 25969), and Account (P.Lond. III 856 vo., TM 29243) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2234]/040-003796359
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Portion of a medium-to-dark-brown papyrus roll, broken off on the left, complete at the top, and partly mutilated at the bottom; written on both sides. On the front, there are three columns running along the fibres; of the first column, only the line ends survive. The upper margin is generous and bears further writing in different hands. The back bears several columns of varying length, written across the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472109.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0075
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- late 1st century-2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 165 x 475 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 220 x 520 mm.
Script: Recto: Proficient cursive hand; different cursive hands in the upper margin. Verso: Small and rapid cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Prosopite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: 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:
- Chrest.Wilck. 274
P.Lond. III 856 ro.
P.Lond. III 856 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. 440.
Recto
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), pp. 91-92, no. 856 recto.
Ludwig Mitteis, Ulrich Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde, 2 vols. (Leipzig-Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1912), Vol. 1, part 2, pp. 322-24, no. 274.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, 1913), p. 278.
Allan C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1936), pp. 594-95, no. 346.
Sherman LR. Wallace, Taxation in Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1938), pp. 270-71, and passim.
Jean Bingen, ‘P. Lond. III 856 et le nome Prosopite’, Chronique d'Égypte, 49 (1974), 200.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986), p. 86.
Verso
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xl, no. 856 vo. descr.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)