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Papyrus 1122
- Record Id:
- 040-003797747
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119028058.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469779.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1122
- Title:
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Tax Receipt (P.Lond. III 1122(a), TM 11759), and Private Letter (P.Lond. III 1122(b), TM 11053)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper papyrus (A) (P.Lond. III 1122(a), TM 11759): Customs house receipt for money payments made over various months at the gate of Soknopaiou Nesos. Dated to year 12 of the emperor Hadrian (127-128).
Lower papyrus (B) (P.Lond. III 1122(b), TM 11053): Fragment of a document of which the date only partially survives. Its back was reused for a letter sent from Heraclides to his father Heroninus, estate manager in Theadelphia. The writer instructs Heroninus to hand over a bank draft of an oil-presser to Amesysos and set the price owed by the oil-presser.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003797747 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1122 : Tax Receipt (P.Lond. III 1122(a), TM 11759), and Private Letter (P.Lond. III 1122(b), TM 11053) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2270]/040-003797747
- 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, housed in the same glass frame.
Upper papyrus (A): Medium-brown papyrus sheet, riddled with insect-holes, abraded in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back is blank. The front bears 11 lines.
Lower papyrus (B): Papyrus fragment, written on both sides; the front bears the beginnings of a few lines running along the fibres; the piece was cut out to host the text on the back, which includes 12 lines written across the fibres the other way up in relation to the front, with traces of another line at the bottom.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469779.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0127
- End Date:
- 0268
- Date Range:
- 127-268
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 71 x 130 mm; B: 92 x 65 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 155 mm.
Script: A: Rapid but neat cursive hand. B: Recto: Lines 1-4: Large, upright hand; line 5-end: Rapid cursive hand. Verso: Neat and regular sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: A: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. B: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: A: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. B: 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.Lond. III 1122(a)
P.Lond. III 1122(b) - 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.
A
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. lviii, no. 1122(a) descr.
Pieter J. Sijpesteijn, Customs Duties in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Zutphen: Terra, 1987), Add., p. 4.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 139.
B
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), pp. 210-11, no. 1122(b).
Domenico Comparetti, Papiri greco-egizii, Papiri Fiorentini, vol. II: Papiri letterari ed epistolari (Milano: Hoepli, 1908), p. 151, no. 187**.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 289.
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), pp. 198, 413.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 127.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)