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Papyrus 2539
- Record Id:
- 040-003846221
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100120584024.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471116.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2539
- Title:
- Certificates for Tax Exemption and Account (P.Diog. 13, 14, 46, TM 15717-15718, 15721)
- Scope & Content:
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Column 1 (P.Diog. 13, TM 15717): Certificate for tax exemption for the supply of wine for the tollgates at Schedia and Iouliopolis, issued by Flavius Apollonius, strategus of Alexandreon Chora, through the acting royal scribe. Dated 141-142.
Column 1 (P.Diog. 14 TM 15718): Certificate for tax exemption for the supply of wine for the tollgates at Schedia and Iouliopolis, issued by Flavius Apollonius, strategus of Alexandreon Chora, through the acting royal scribe. Dated 141-142.
Verso (P.Diog. 46, TM 15721): Account of incomes and expenses for the month of Thoth from Hermes to Apollinarius. Possibly dated 156, 179 or 211.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003846221 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2539 : Certificates for Tax Exemption and Account (P.Diog. 13, 14, 46, TM 15717-15718, 15721) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2311]/040-003846221
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Parts of two papyrus sheets of different height pasted together, broken off to the left and right; written on both sides. On the front, there are two columns of writing running along the fibres. Upper and lower margins survive. A sheet-join is visible. The back bears two columns running across the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471116.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0141
- End Date:
- 0211
- Date Range:
- 141-211
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 182 x 240 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 295 mm.
Script: Cursive hands.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Recto: Alexandreon Chora, Alexandria, Egypt. Verso: Oxyrhynchite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2486-2542 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) in September 1922. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan and Cornell University.
- Former External References:
- P.Diog. 13
P.Diog. 14
P.Diog. 46 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 366.
Recto
Paul Schubert, Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen, 39) (Bonn: R. Habelt, 1990), nos. 13-14, with plate x.
Bernard Boyaval, ‘Les deux douanes gréco-romaines d'Alexandrie’, Luchnos, 64 (1995), 63-66.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 63.
Verso
Paul Schubert, Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen, 39) (Bonn: R. Habelt, 1990), no. 46, with plate xxiv.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)