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Papyrus 1304

Record Id:

040-003881975

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100121652528.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 1304

Title:

Miscellaneous documents (SB XVI 12868, TM 16313; P.Lond. III 1304(b) descr., TM 22878, under publication)

Scope & Content:

Upper papyrus (A) (SB XVI 12868, TM 16313): Contract to perform a work for a period of one year as a bath-man for a private bath-owner. Dated 592-593.

Lower papyrus (B) (P.Lond. III 1304(b) descr., TM 22878): Fragment of an unidentifiable document addressed Aurelius Georgius son of Silvanus from the city of Hermopolis dated to the fifteenth indiction of Emperor Justin II.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-003881975

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 1304 : Miscellaneous documents (SB XVI 12868, TM 16313; P.Lond. III 1304(b) descr., TM 22878, under publication)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[2345]/040-003881975

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Two papyrus sheets that do not belong together, mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.

Upper papyrus (A): Upper right portion of a papyrus sheet, with a insect-holes at the bottom, written on one side along the fibres. The front bears the ends of 13 lines; the upper margin is extant, no margin was left to the right. A sheet-join runs vertically along the right edge. The back is blank.

Lower papyrus (B): Upper right portion of a papyrus sheet, with insect-holes at the bottom written on one side along the fibres. The front bears the ends of 6 lines; the upper margin is extant, no margin was left to the right. The back is blank.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0566

End Date:

0593

Date Range:

566-593

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: A: 120 x 100 mm; B: 71 x 76 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 255 x 155 mm.

Script: A: Rapid sloping cursive hand. B: Upright cursive hand.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.

Provenance:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.

Both papyri were purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1200-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.

Former External References:

P.Lond. III 1304(a) descr.
P.Lond. III 1304(b) descr.
SB XVI 12868

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum, 1907), p. 444.

Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. lxxii, no. 1304(a) descr.

Klaas A. Worp, ‘Some Late Byzantine Papyri from Hermopolis’, Chronique d'Égypte, 59 (1984), 136-44 (pp. 142-44, no. 5).

Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, XVI (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1985), no. 12868.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 294.

Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. lxxii, no. 1304(b) descr.

Nikolaos Gonis, 'Soldiers and money in early sixth-century Hermopolis', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 209 (2019), 237–41.

I. Marthot-Santaniello, ‘An Important Family in Sixth-Century Hermopolis: New Insights from the Basel Papyrus Collection’, E. Garosi, S. R. Huebner, et al. (eds.), Living the End of Antiquity, Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt (Berlin: De Gruyter 2020), pp. 97-108 (p. 98 n.8).

N. Gonis, On the dossier of Georgius son of Silvanus, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik,223 (2022), 202-03.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Georgius, 6th century

Places:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt.