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Papyrus 1712(A-C)
- Record Id:
- 040-003822179
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119807449.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470414.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1712(A-C)
- Title:
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Tax Receipt (TM 765550), Letter, and Nomination to Public Service (TM 11614)
- Scope & Content:
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A (TM 765550): Fragment of a receipt recording five money payments made by the heirs of a veteran to the collectors of money taxes of Bakchias over three or four months, possibly for poll-tax (syntaximon). Dated between September and November 237. Papyrus 1573(B) preserves the right-hand half of the document.
B: Letter with instructions on business matters; dated Mesore 9. Unpublished.
C (P.Leit. 3, SB VIII 10194, TM 11614): Nomination addressed to Antonius Sarapammon, strategus of the Arsinoite nome, from the comarchs of the village of Sebennytos in the Arsinoite nome, who have nominated a man whose name is lost as a collector of taxes in kind. Dated around 313.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003822179 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1712(A-C) : Tax Receipt (TM 765550), Letter, and Nomination to Public Service (TM 11614) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2292]/040-003822179
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Three papyrus sheets that do not belong together, mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
A: Fragment of a papyrus sheet, the right-hand portion of which is Papyrus 1573(B); written on one side along the fibres and preserving the beginnings of 12 lines; left and upper margins are extant. The back is blank.
B: Long and narrow papyrus sheet, damaged at the top left and bottom right; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears 17 lines; margins are extant, with ample blank space at the bottom. The back is blank.
C: Medium-brown papyrus fragment, with some surface damage; broken off at the bottom and to the right; written on one side along the fibres. The front contains the beginnings of 14 lines; of the last, only a few traces remain. Left margin and part of the upper margin survive. The back is blank.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470414.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 3rd century-4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 94 x 73 mm; B: 265 x 72 mm; C: 150 x 87 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 320 x 205 mm.
Script: A: Rapid sloping cursive hand; B: Neat cursive hand, slightly sloping to the right; C: Neat, upright cursive hand, occasionally compressed.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: A: Bachkias, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. B: Egypt. C: Sebennytos, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: A, C: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. B: Egypt. All three papyri were purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Leit. 3
SB VIII 10194 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 311.
A
Nikolaos Gonis, ‘Five Documents from Roman Fayum’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 208 (2018), 173-86 (pp. 184-86, no. 5, with plate).
C
Naphtali Lewis, ‘Leitourgia Papyri. Documents on Compulsory Public Service in Egypt under Roman Rule’, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 53 (1963), 1-39 (pp. 8-9, no. 3).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1967), p. 251, no. 10194.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 168.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)