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Papyrus 1924
- Record Id:
- 040-003834509
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119868924.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470636.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1924
- Title:
- Official Letter (P.Fam.Tebt. 18 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 18, TM 10735)
- Scope & Content:
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Beginning of an official letter from the keepers of the public archives Maron and Ptolemaeus to Heraclides alias Valerius, appointed by the strategus as an inspector (episkeptes) of the Oxyrhynchite nome.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003834509 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1924 : Official Letter (P.Fam.Tebt. 18 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 18, TM 10735) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2295]/040-003834509
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Medium-brown papyrus sheet, brokwn off at the bottom and worm-eaten; writing runs on one side along the fibres; 11 lines from the top of a column remain. Upper and side margins are extant. The back is blank. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470636.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0117
- End Date:
- 0118
- Date Range:
- 117-118
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 160 x 115 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 210 x 160 mm.
Script: Upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Tebtynis, meris of Polemon, Arsinoite nome, Egypt (?). Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1873-2016 from Ali Abd el Hari on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- P.Fam.Tebt. 18
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum, 1969), p. 475.
Bernhard A. van Groningen, A Family Archive from Tebtunis, (Pap.Lugd.Bat., VI) (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1950), pp. 65-66, no. 18.
Régis Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus: Vie quotidienne (2003), p. 129, no. 69.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)