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Papyrus 2970
- Record Id:
- 040-003797839
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119090363.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471377.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2970
- Title:
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Royal Ordinances (P.Hib. II 198, TM 5183)
- Scope & Content:
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Copies of ordinances on both sides of a papyrus roll, concerning the royal administration and prescribing regulations on the day-to-day conduct of various branches (recto), and on the misbehaviour of officials and the jurisdictional procedure. The ordinances concern the cleruchic system, police duties and security as well as financial and judicial administration.
The ordinances preserved relate to cleruchs (military settlers), including a personnel section listing individuals in positions, and control on holdings; there follow ordinances on matters of security, especially on transport routes and waterways, and measures against lawbreakers, including runaway sailors and brigands. The back deals with administration, such as transport licenses, and jurisdictional procedures to follow in case of negligent officials, court disputes, security forfeiture.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003797839 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2970 : Royal Ordinances (P.Hib. II 198, TM 5183) - Contains:
- Papyrus 2970(1) : Part 1 of the royal ordinances
Papyrus 2970(2) : Part 2 of the royal ordinances
Papyrus 2970(3) : Part 3 of the royal ordinances
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Papyrus 2970 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2275]/040-003797839
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Originally one hundred fragments from a papyrus roll, housed in three glass frames named Papyrus 2070(1), Papyrus 2070(2), and Papyrus 2070(3). Most of the fragments have now been assembled, and preserve 6 columns written along the fibres on the front, and five columns written across the fibres on the back. The column width is between 170-180 mm (verso) and (180-190 mm (recto). The unplaced fragments are housed in Papyrus 2070(3).
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471377.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0240
- End Date:
- -0240
- Date Range:
- c. 240 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; height of the roll: c. 350 mm; housed in three glass frames.
Script: Recto: Large and squarish business capital, bold and well-formed, with some variations in size and in the use of the pen; punctuation by paragraphus and space. Verso: different hand, practised, rather flat angular cursive, using a fine point.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Herakleopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Bought at Ptolemais Hormou (Illahun) in the winter of 1902-1903. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2943-3035 by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society on 9 April 1960.
- Former External References:
- P.Hib. II 198
- Publications:
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Eric G. Turner, The Hibeh Papyri, II (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1955), pp. 74-110, no. 198.
Marie-Therèse Lenger, Corpus des ordonnances des Ptolémées (C. Ord. Ptol.) (Bruxelles: Palais des Académies, 1964.), nos. 1-4, 11-16, 26, 77-78.
Cezary Kunderewicz, ‘Ad Papyrus Hibeh 198’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 15 (1965), 139-42.
Naphtali Lewis, ‘P. Hibeh, 198 on Recapturing Fugitive Sailors’, American Journal of Philology, 89 (1968), 465-69.
Roger S. Bagnall, ‘Some Notes on P.Hib. 198’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 6 (1969), 73-118.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, V (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1969), p. 47.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976), p. 54.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986), p. 70.
Reinhold Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1990), no. 90.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 151.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 109.
R. Bogaert, ‘Liste géographique des banques et des banquiers de l’Égypte ptolémaïque’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 120 (1998), 165-202 (pp. 170-71).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 96.
Roger S. Bagnall, Peter Derow, The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation (Oxford- Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004), pp. 203-04, no. 122.
Michel M. Austin, The Hellenistic world from Alexander to the Roman conquest: a selection of ancient sources in translation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), no. 250.
John Bauschatz, Law and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 233-34, 286.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), p. 112.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)